Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies

Develops secure cybersecurity solutions and research

Platform and Site Reliability Engineer - Database and Search Platform

Database Administration +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeSingaporeNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

A degree or professional qualification in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
At least 3 years of experience with database systems, including relational databases such as PostgreSQL or Oracle and/or NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or Elasticsearch.
Proficiency in programming languages including Bash, Go, Java, and Python.
Experience with cloud-native technologies for container orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and observability.
Experience with data modeling, schema design, performance tuning, and data migration.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain highly available, scalable large-scale databases and search platforms using technologies such as PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch.
Design and implement data integration and migration pipelines to ingest data from APIs, files, and other databases.
Improve platform availability and performance using SRE practices.
Conduct incident management, including troubleshooting, resolution, and post-mortems for database and search platforms.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to fellow engineers as a subject matter expert in database and search platform engineering.
Collaborate with project, engineering, and operations teams to ensure platform and product usability and alignment with organizational goals.

Desired Qualifications

Experience managing physical and virtual infrastructures.
Experience managing cloud database and search services using AWS RDS, Google Cloud SQL, or Azure Database Services.
Passion for open-source technologies.

CSIT develops products to advance the national security interests of Singapore. We use our products in a wide range of operations, including but not limited to Counter-terrorism and Computer Network Defence. Join the awesome CSIT family and use cutting-edge technologies to protect the nation.

Role

We are seeking experienced Platform & SRE engineer to design, develop, and maintain our large-scale database and search infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in date base systems, search technologies and software engineering.
The Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the scalability, performance, and reliability of our database and search systems, developing new features and evaluations of new technologies to support our growing user base.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain high-available, scalable large-scale databases and search platforms using technologies like PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch
Design and implement data integration and migration pipelines to ingest data from various data integration points including APIs, files, and/or other databases
Improve platform availability and performance through use of SRE practices
Conduct incident management, including troubleshooting, resolution and post-mortem of the database and search platforms
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to fellow engineers as a subject matter expert in database and search platform engineering
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including projects, engineering, and operations to ensure platform and product usability and alignment to organisation goals

Requirements (Minimum Qualifications)

A degree or professional qualification in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field
3+ years of experience with database systems, including relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, Oracle) and/or NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, Elasticsearch)
Proficiency in programming languages, including Bash, Go, Java, Python
Experience in cloud-native technologies for container orchestrations, CI/CD, infrastructure automations and observability
Experience with data modelling, schema design, performance tuning and data migration

Nice to Have

Experience in managing physical and virtual infrastructures
Experience in managing cloud database and search services using AWS RDS, Google Cloud SQL, or Azure Database Services
Passion for open-source technologies

Why join us?

The work is purposeful and meaningful
You will work with the best engineers
We work with modern technologies and tech stacks
We have excellent engineering culture and work-life balance
We aspire to engineering and operational excellence
We empower to innovate
We grow together as a family

As CSIT is an agency under the Ministry of Defence (Singapore), only Singapore Citizens will be considered.

About the Company

Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies

Develops secure cybersecurity solutions and research

CSIT builds cybersecurity and secure digital solutions to safeguard Singapore’s national security, conducting applied cybersecurity research and developing AI and data-exploitation tools in a self-built secure cloud. Its engineers design and deploy software within this private cloud to counter digital threats and protect highly sensitive information. The center’s work is closely tied to national defense, focusing on applied research rather than consumer products and using an in-house secure cloud. Its goal is to shield Singapore from cyber threats and safeguard sensitive secrets through advanced technology.

Company size: 201-500
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Singapore, Singapore
Founded: 2003

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