Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies
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Platform & SRE Engineer (Database and Search Platform)
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The Role
Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable database and search platforms (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch). Implement data integration/migration pipelines, apply SRE practices to improve performance and reliability, handle incident management and post-mortems, evaluate new technologies, and mentor engineers while collaborating cross-functionally.
Summary Generated by Built In
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)
- Background 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.
Skills Required
- Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 3+ years experience with database systems (relational e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle and/or NoSQL e.g., MongoDB, Elasticsearch)
- Proficiency in Bash, Go, Java, Python
- Experience in cloud-native technologies for container orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation and observability
- Experience with data modelling, schema design, performance tuning and data migration
- Singapore citizenship (only Singapore Citizens will be considered)
- Experience in managing physical and virtual infrastructures
- Experience managing cloud database/search services (AWS RDS, Google Cloud SQL, Azure Database Services)
- Passion for open-source technologies
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The Company
What We Do
The Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies (CSIT) is a technical agency in the Ministry of Defence that harnesses cutting-edge digital technologies to meet Singapore's security needs. It develops capabilities to support missions such as cyber defence, counter terrorism, and counter hostile information operations, with a technical focus on cybersecurity, data analytics, software engineering, and cloud infrastructure and services.
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