AVP/VP, Cloud Engineer, Technology Group

GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 locations around the world, we invest in more than 40 countries globally across asset classes and businesses. Working at GIC gives you exposure to an extraordinary network of the world’s industry leaders. As a leading global long-term investor, we Work at the Point of Impact for Singapore’s financial future, and the communities we invest in worldwide.

Technology Group
The Technology Group (TG) is a key enabler to keep our business moving forward and is constantly exploiting state-of-the-art information technologies to enhance GIC’s ability to be the leading global long-term investment firm. We aim to provide users with empowering and transformational capabilities, and to create an inclusive, innovative, and integrated work environment.

Infrastructure & Platform Services Team
You will help to build and sustain strong technology foundations forming the bedrock of GIC’s digital solutions. 

What impact can you make in this role? 
We are looking for a VP, Lead Cloud Engineer, who will enable our Cloud Native transformation efforts in alignment with the next iteration of GIC’s technology transformation journey, all with the goal of driving developer velocity and therefore business agility and value.This role will see synergistic collaboration with senior leadership and teams/squads of product-minded architects, engineers, and application developers, who are passionate about “building cloud applications and not just applications in the cloud”.

What will you do as an AVP/VP Cloud Engineer, Technology Group?

Enable Cloud Native transformation strategy and roadmap

• Enable the next iteration of GIC’s cloud strategy by planning and executing against the vision for an agile organization that leverages cloud native to take full advantage of cloud computing
• Communicate the case for and benefits of increased cloud native adoption to senior stakeholders, business units and business solution teams   
• Enable roadmaps and pathways for the rationalization and modernization of applications to just-right cloud services, platform, and architecture within our hybrid cloud (public and private) ecosystem  
• Measure and track progress of GIC’s cloud strategy through the development of effective Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that set the conditions for successful cloud native adoption, culture, behaviour, and differentiating business outcomes

Enable Cloud Centre of Practice and Excellence

• Champion and exemplify cloud native practices, including cloud native philosophy, architecture, principles, and culture
• Lead product management, including research and proof-of-concept, for emerging cloud native services and platforms, for example, enterprise containerization, landing zones, orchestration, and automation
• Define cloud reference architecture, standards, and processes within the enterprise, for example, provide opinionated landing zones that comprise a set of policies or rules to enforce a security baseline and prevent non-compliant activities
• Perform cloud governance role in disciplines like identity & access management, tenant/account management, security & compliance, and billing  
• Provide common tooling, solutions, and patterns for cloud native adoption and developer enablement, productivity, and self-service
• Assist application and developer teams to onboard applications to hybrid cloud (public and/or private) services and platforms
• Provide education and learning opportunities to enable teams to understand existing and emerging cloud computing technologies, as part of overall cloud capabilities building

Deliver Cloud Engineering and Operations

• Implement opinionated set of technologies, on top of cloud service provider(s), to consolidate institutional knowledge, tooling, patterns and practices; and deployable artifacts to production
• Provision cloud services to developer teams based on pre-stipulated service level agreements
• Manage the maintenance of virtual appliances, for example, AMI, and base container images
• Manage cloud operations disciplines like patch management, network configuration, certificate management, logging agents, and intrusion detection
• Steward cloud spend and budget, including the monitoring of cumulative usage, identifying of areas for optimization, managing reserved instances (RI) and negotiating on committed spend agreements
• Manage support vendor partnerships through regular vendor stewardship meetings and service level and escalation reporting

Provide technical leadership

• Provide technical coaching and mentoring to enterprise architects, application and infrastructure teams on cloud native architecture, philosophy, and practices

What qualifications or skills should you possess in this role?

• At least 8 years of relevant experience in delivering hybrid cloud strategies, operating models, and technology service management practices
• Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent
• Some return-on-investment and business case development experience
• Strong communication abilities to influence key stakeholders ranging from C-level executives, MDs, CISO, application architects and subject matter experts
• Proven track record of delivering cloud applications on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure using cloud-native design and patterns
• Proven experience in designing microservices, event driven architecture using open source, .NET, NodeJS, Python, Java, message queues, streaming, databases, and cloud data services
• Extensive experience in architecting applications and automation technologies to meet the expected standards of availability, agility, capacity, resiliency, and security
• Hands-on experience with cloud technologies including, Docker, Kubernetes (particularly RedHat OpenShift 4.x), Infrastructure as Code, Service Mesh, Immutable Infrastructure, and declarative APIs
• Hands-on experience automating full lifecycle management of application hosting platforms in data center and public cloud using DevOps practices and CI/CD methodologies
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure and Platform Automation technology products such as Amazon CloudFormation, VMware vRealize Suite, HashiCorp Suite, Puppet, Ansible, and Chef
• Strong understanding of AGILE, LEAN or SaFE methodology
• Strong understanding and knowledge of industry technology standards, and security & compliance frameworks (e.g. NIST, CIS, CSM) and experience working with audit and regulatory bodies
• One or more AWS/Azure Certifications at Professional and/or Specialty level

Work at the Point of Impact
We need to be forward-looking to attract the right people to help us become the Leading Global Long-term Investor. Join our ambitious, agile, and diverse teams - be empowered to push boundaries and pursue innovative ideas, share your views, and be heard. Be anchored on our PRIME Values: Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence, which guides us in how we make our day-to-day decisions. We strive to inspire. To make an impact.

Flexibility at GIC
At GIC, our offices are vibrant hubs for ideation, professional growth, and interpersonal connection.  At the same time, we believe that flexibility allows us to do our best work and be our best selves.  Thus, our teams come into the office four days per week to harness the benefits of in-person collaboration, but have the flexibility to choose which days they work from home and adjust this arrangement as situational needs arise.

GIC is an equal opportunity employer 
GIC is an equal opportunity employerGIC is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Please email grphrodtaops@gic.com.sg at any point of the application or interview process if adjustments need to be made due to a disability.

Learn more about our Technology Group here: https://gic.careers/group/technology-group/