Job Description

Position Summary

The Digital Technology department in Group IT are responsible for building all of Singtel\'s consumer and enterprise facing, channel applications & APIs, from mobile applications to eCommerce websites. These applications are primarily built using a microservices architecture on the AWS public cloud. The majority of our applications are deployed as Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes (AWS EKS).

The Digital Technology Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team act as an enabler for our application squads, empowering these \xe2\x80\x9cBuild-Run\xe2\x80\x9d teams to take more responsibility for their production systems, by ensuring that they have the right tools, skills and hands-on experience to succeed in production.

The SRE team consists of Software Engineers who are tasked with building the next generation operations automation & observability platform for our hybrid multi-cloud applications. This platform focuses on the deploy, operate and monitor phases of the DevOps lifecycle. The platform is primarily an extension and customisation of Kubernetes as our standard runtime platform, so prior experience as a software engineer working on or preferably extending Kubernetes is essential.

The SRE team also mentor and guide application squads on operational best practices for cloud native applications, such as configuration & secret management, observability engineering, data operations, security, etc. as well as partnering with these team to evolve a culture of SRE practices including fundamentals such as SLIs, SLOs and error budgets. The team will also be involved in production & non-production incidents, including post-mortems & advising and in some cases delivering permanent corrective actions.

Key Responsibilities

• Building & supporting the next generation Cloud Application Runtime Platform for Digital Technologies
• Mentoring development squads on Kubernetes, cloud engineering, cloud native best practices including configuration & observability
• Building self-service operations, delivery pipelines, primarily GitOps based with kubernetes controllers
• Cloud native application monitoring, log aggregation and distributed tracing platforms and tooling
• Supporting production incidents and solution of permanent corrective actions

Requirements

Mandatory Experience

• BSc in Computer Science or related discipline
• Min. 8 years of work experience in Java software development, including 3+ years of Spring Boot microservice development. You will be required to sit a Java programming test.
• Experience building and deploying cloud native applications on Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, OCP)
• Solid understanding of Linux, networking & distributed systems
• Observability tools, ELK, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, etc.

Desirable Experience

• Building and deploying cloud native applications on the public cloud, ideally on AWS.
• Working in a start-up or another environment with a wide scope of responsibilities
• Working on a platform engineering team
• Production support of systems, for example, on a L3 support rota, etc
• Professional certifications in Java, Linux, Networks, AWS or Kubernetes a bonus
• Beneficial if you have experience in some of the following:
• Experience working on an SRE team / being part of an SRE maturity journey
• Argo stack; ArgoCD for GitOps, Events, Workflows, Rollouts, etc
• Go, Python or Groovy development
• Experience analysing Java heap / thread dumps
• Data Engineering & Analysis, ETL pipelines, etc.
• Cloud Engineering on Hybrid multi-clouds using Terraform, Crossplane, AWS ACK & CDK
• Network Mgmt. tools such as, Apigee, Kong, Envoy, NGINX, Istio
• Configuration Mgmt. tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
• Application Performance Monitoring tools, such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Elastic APM
• JBoss, Tomcat, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

We are committed to a safe and healthy environment for our employees & customers and will require all prospective employees to be fully vaccinated. -

Additional Information

Career Level

Not Specified

Qualification

Not Specified

Job Type

Full-Time

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Company Overview

The Singtel Group is Asia\'s leading communications group. We provide a diverse range of services including fixed, mobile, data, internet, TV and infocomms technology (ICT) as well as digital solutions.

Our main operations are in Singapore and Australia. Headquartered in Singapore, Singtel has more than 130 years of operating experience and has played a pivotal role in the country\'s development as a major communications hub. Today, we continue to lead and shape the local consumer and enterprise market. Our Australian arm, Optus is a leader in integrated telecommunications, constantly raising the bar in innovative products and services.

We are a major communications player in Asia and Africa through our strategic investments in five regional mobile operators, namely Telkomsel (Indonesia), Globe Telecom (the Philippines), Advanced Info Service (Thailand) and PBTL (Bangladesh). The Group also has investments in Bharti Airtel (India), which has significant presence in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Africa.

We are a long term strategic investor and work closely with our associates to grow the business by leveraging our scale in networks, customer reach and extensive operational experience. The Group serves over 500 million mobile customers around the world. Singtel is the largest listed company on the Singapore Exchange by market capitalisation. We are also listed on the Australian Securities Exchange following our acquisition of Optus in August 2001. To serve the needs of multinational corporations, Singtel has a vast network of offices in countries and territories throughout Asia Pacific, in Europe and the USA, while Optus has a network of offices around Australia. The Group employs more than 22,000 staff worldwide.

Additional Company Information

Registration No.

199201624D

Company Size

More than 5000 Employees

Average Processing Time

20 days

Industry

Telecommunication

Benefits & Others

Medical, Sports (e.g. Gym), Business (e.g. Shirts), Family-friendly policies, SingTel Recreation Club, Work-life coaching

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