IT Infrastructure Engineer
Summary
Infrastructure/security engineer supporting a Singapore government agency's systems on Government Commercial Cloud: building and securing AWS infrastructure with Terraform, handling patching, audits, incident response, vendor management, and security training. Requires 3+ years in infrastructure/security and hands-on AWS and IaC experience.
Salary: $6,500 – $7,000 per month
About the role
Be part of the Cloud Infrastructure/security team to plan, develop, and support infrastructure/security services for the agency's application systems. Provide consultancy to application teams on the infrastructure and security design, planning, and implementation of infrastructure solutions and architecture.
Key responsibilities
Strengthen infrastructure security, monitoring, observability, and overall operational resilience
Resolve incidents, service requests, and operational issues to maintain service availability
Manage vendors in the delivery of infrastructure setup, operations, and security patching for Government Commercial Cloud (GCC)
Attend regular meetings with vendors and internal teams to review operational matters
Perform remediation of ICT audit findings and ensure familiarity with Government ICT compliance and ICT incident management plan/process
Plan and implement cloud infrastructure on AWS in accordance with GCC guidelines, including the provisioning and management of resources using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform
Ensure infrastructure deployments comply with security best practices, including vulnerability management, access control, and government ICT security policies
Perform IT security assessments, audits, and the remediation of findings
Conduct security awareness training sessions
About you
Degree or diploma in a relevant discipline, or an equivalent qualification
Minimum of 3 years of experience in managing and supporting infrastructure/security projects
Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in application design and deployment across cloud and on-premises environments
Sound knowledge of cloud, server, network, security, and data centre hosting environments
Familiar with Agile Development process, CI/CD, DevOps concepts, tools (Gitlab, Github, Ansible etc) and how automated security testing can be incorporated into CI/CD pipelines
Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g. EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM) and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
Familiarity with cloud security frameworks and best practices, including CIS benchmarks or equivalent government security standards
Relevant certifications preferred (e.g. AWS Solution Architect Associate or higher, AWS DevOps Engineer)
Experience in working with Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) preferred