SVP, Engineering Lead, Compute, Virtualization, Storage & Back Up
Singapore, SG
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
We experiment, design, and lead a 24×7 global business where we support core capabilities in asset management, trading, investment operations, and risk management. We deliver secure, reliable, and integrated solutions, and provide insights on new, and emerging technologies.
What will you do as Engineering Lead, Compute, Virtualization, Storage & Backup?
This role oversees GIC’s core infrastructure layer for compute (bare metal, virtual), hyperconvergence, storage, and backup, spanning on-prem and hybrid/cloud environments. You will ensure these foundational platforms are robust, scalable, secure, and ready for containerized/virtualized workloads. The incumbent will partner closely with database, network, security, and application leads to deliver a unified, resilient infrastructure strategy.
Strategic Leadership & Vision
- Develop and maintain a multi-year roadmap for compute, virtualization, storage, backup, and hybrid container hosting (on-prem, edge, cloud).
- Drive the adoption of emerging technologies (software-defined, composable infrastructure, container-native storage), future-proofing GIC’s hosting platforms.
- Shape how workloads move between on-prem and cloud, ensuring consistency, portability, and security baselines from the outset.
- Collaborate with security teams to define and continuously update compute/storage baselines (including IaC, encryption, vulnerability management).
Engineering Execution & Delivery
- Own design, build, integration, and capacity planning for compute/virtualization/storage platforms, leveraging IaC, automation, and DevOps practices.
- Lead pilots/POCs of container hosts (Kubernetes) and integrate with networking, backup, and orchestration layers.
- Oversee ancillary services (SFTP, MFT, certificate management), ensuring reliability and security.
- Modernize storage/backup solutions (cloud storage, object storage, advanced backup) for high availability, disaster recovery, and secure data handling.
- Partner with operations/SRE to meet SLAs, manage escalations, conduct root-cause analysis, and continuously optimize performance.
- Work with application teams to deliver global solutions that minimize latency and maximize resilience.
Governance, Security & Compliance
- Maintain consistent global architecture for compute/virtualization, ensuring interoperability across offices and clouds.
- Embed security, compliance, privacy, and audit requirements from day one (RTO/RPO, regulatory mandates).
- Implement continuous monitoring, advanced telemetry, and automated compliance checks to detect and remediate deviations.
- Coordinate with security, risk, and compliance teams to meet GIC’s regulatory and operational requirements.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
- Engage with engineering heads, operations, analytics, and AI/ML groups to prioritize initiatives, resolve architectural conflicts, and sponsor cross-domain programs.
- Present strategies, trade-offs, and budget needs to executive stakeholders.
- Partner with business units and MSPs, ensuring new platforms integrate seamlessly into existing operational models.
- Collaborate with database/data operations, network, security, and application engineering to co-create integrated platforms fulfilling performance and scaling needs.
Talent & Culture
- Attract, develop, and retain global talent specializing in compute, storage, virtualization, and backup engineering.
- Foster a culture of knowledge sharing, automation-first, and innovation.
- Define and manage KPIs (latency, cost, error budgets, time to market) for infrastructure.
- Empower and mentor teams, driving continuous learning and building a strong pipeline of future leaders.
What qualifications or skills should you possess in this role?
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.
- 15+ years in compute/storage/virtualization engineering leadership, ideally in global, 24×7 environments.
- Deep technical expertise in virtualization (VMware, KVM, Hyper-V), software-defined storage, backup & recovery, container infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Proven track record in hybrid cloud/container hosting solutions across both on-prem and public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
- Skilled in DevOps, SRE, IaC (Infrastructure as Code), and modern delivery frameworks.
- Strong history of infrastructure transformations, migrations, and modernization programs.
- Solid security knowledge for compute/backup/storage (encryption, access controls, vulnerability management).
- Understanding of network fundamentals, load balancing, and HA solutions for distributed systems.
- Demonstrated experience managing multi-region/vendor teams, budgets, and global standardization.
- Innovative mindset, adept at driving cultural change and continuous improvement.
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.
GIC is a Great Place to Work
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. This role will be in our Tampines Office.
GIC is an equal opportunity employer
As an employer, we passionately believe every individual brings with them unique diversity of thought and perspectives to meaningfully enrich perspectives of GIC teams to drive competitive performance. An inclusive environment yields exceptional contribution.
Learn more about our Technology Group here:
https://gic.careers/group/technology-group/