Cloud Consultant - DBS Bank (Client: VSTECS Pte Ltd) - Singapore
(2025-11)
Performed designing, implementation of Cloud infra, managing day-to-day BAU production cloud support tasks troubleshooting on Cloud and migrations.
- Operate, maintain and support workloads and infrastructure running on across AWS, Azure and/or GCP, ensuring availability, performance and resilience targets are met.
- Expertise in cloud architecture, native patterns, container management and cloud computing with security best practices.
- Provision and manage cloud resources through Cloud Service Provider (CSP) accounts, using the platform's automated account-vending and self-service capabilities.
- Enabled by a truly cloud native public adoption tool, called Evolve which offers a unique way to onboard public cloud through a directive approach to cloud architecture.
- Perform routine operational tasks: patching, backup and restore, capacity management, certificate and secrets rotation, and configuration management.
- Design, develop, and deploy systems in Government on Commercial Cloud (GCC) and Commercial Cloud (CC), ensuring robust security controls and network boundary controls are integrated.
- Support landing-zone and network configuration (segmentation, connectivity, DNS, load balancing) in line with platform standards.
- Engineer, maintain, and optimize hybrid UNIX platforms across cloud (Azure/AWS) and onprem environments, ensuring reliability and performance of 12,000+ global RHEL hosts.
- Maintain operational runbooks, standard operating procedures and configuration documentation.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting and observability across infrastructure and applications using cloud-native and platform tooling.
- Utilize cloud security controls, network boundary controls, and related toolsets to ensure the security posture of cloud resources.
- Respond to incidents and service requests within agreed SLAs; perform triage, diagnosis, escalation and resolution, including participation in an on-call roster.
- Design and build automated systems to streamline deployment, monitoring, and operations using infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools.
- Deploy, configure, and upgrade cloud resources while adhering to stringent security requirements during project implementation.
- Conduct root-cause analysis and drive problem management to prevent recurrence; contribute to post-incident reviews.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and integrate DevOps for all applications in GCC, including the necessary pipeline and integrations, with a focus on security automation and compliance.
- Support disaster-recovery planning, backup verification and recovery exercises (RPO/RTO objectives).
- Monitor and review all cloud resources, taking necessary actions to resolve security-related issues and optimize resource spending in alignment with Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) guidelines.
- Build, maintain and version infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform) and configuration-management tooling.
- Collaborate with multiple teams to ensure system reliability, security, and scalability.
- Develop automation scripts and pipelines to reduce manual effort, standardise deployments and improve consistency.
- Support CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices, integrating with tools such as SHIP-HATS where applicable.
- Develop and implement robust CI/CD pipelines, collaborating closely with development teams to enhance automation in testing and releases.
- Ensure all cloud activities comply with IM8, security policies and guardrails, including hardened baselines and CIS-aligned configurations.
- Set up new development tools and infrastructure in the CI/CD landscape, focusing on security automation and compliance.
- Support Policy-as-Code controls for continuous security compliance, remediating drift and non-compliant resources.
- Design and automate platform workflows include server builds, provisioning, configuration management, and lifecycle operations using tools such as Ansible, AWX, Puppet, Python, and Agentic AI.
- Manage identity and access in line with least-privilege principles, using platform single-sign-on and approved access paths.
- Automate and improve development and release processes with a strong emphasis on security best practices.
- Support audit, vulnerability management and remediation activities, and maintain evidence for security reviews.
- Work with application teams, agency stakeholders, security teams and the cloud platform team to onboard, migrate and support workloads.
- Leverage Google Cloud Platform (GCP) APIs and services to architect scalable, fault-tolerant automation solutions.
- Provide technical guidance and knowledge transfer to agency users and junior engineers.
- Create proofs of concept and prototypes to demonstrate the value of proposed automation solutions within GCP.
- Troubleshoot complex security issues and document solutions in accordance with security best practices.
- Troubleshoot complex system issues, resolve escalations, support bridge calls, and collaborate with global engineering teams to deliver stable and secure UNIX platform services.
- Regularly review existing systems and make recommendations to improve security workflows, processes, and technology.
- Performance tuning and cost optimisation, cloud governance and best practices.
VICE PRESIDENT - Seclusion Power Solutions Pte Ltd - Singapore
(2024-04 - 2025-10)
Performed day-to-day BAU production, cloud support tasks troubleshooting on cloud migrations.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and deployment automation using Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar tools.
- Design and automate using terraform, ansible IAC large‑scale platform services across on‑prem and cloud in GCC and CC.
- Hands on experience with Linux operating systems, modern server technologies, and cloud platforms.
- Build IAC, pipelines, and tooling (Python/Terraform) that power highly available systems, applying SRE best practices to deliver reliability, performance, and great developer experience.
- Collaborate with multiple teams to ensure system reliability, security, and scalability.
- Providing DevOps support for legacy, current, and emerging technologies.
- Implement security measures to protect cloud data and applications.
- Optimize cloud resource usage and cost management.
- Expertise in infrastrcture and operations, terraform, python, CI CD tools, AI, GENAI, design, build and maintain infra automation solutions using terraform.
- Experience with Kubernetes/containers, including designing, deploying, and troubleshooting containerized workloads.
- Develop and manage IAC for cloud and on-prem environment, automate system provisioning, configuration, management, deployment and operational workflows.
Senior IT Storage Consultant - Matrix Process Automation Pte Ltd (Client: NCS MOE) - Singapore
(2020-08 - 2024-04)
Performed day-to-day BAU production support tasks troubleshooting on Cloud AWS, Azure, GCP.
- Design, configure, implement, and support enterprise Cloud solutions across multi-vendor platforms in GCC and CC.
- Modern DevOps, CI/CD, and SRE principles, with the ability to apply automation using terraform IAC, observability, and reliability engineering techniques.
- Build automation using Python, Ansible, or emerging Agentic AI frameworks to improve platform efficiency and reduce manual effort.
- Collaborate with multiple teams to ensure system reliability, security, and scalability.
- Implement security measures to protect cloud data and applications.
- Optimize cloud resource usage and cost management.
Storage Engineer - AIT Software Services Pte Ltd (Client: UOB) - Singapore
(2017-11 - 2020-07)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and deployment automation using Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar tools.
- Ability to provide and suggest cloud solutions based on best security practices and compliance requirements.
- Hands on experience in IAC, terraform Automation, and GEN AI enabled solutions.
- Good understanding of ITIL processes, including Service Desk, Incident, Problem, Change, and Configuration Management.
- Proven experience engineering solutions in cloud environments (Azure, AWS), including compute, networking, and platform services.
Analyst - BlackRock Financial Advisors - Singapore
