VP, SRE Automation Platform 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
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 impact will you make in this role?

The SRE Automation Platform Engineer will design, develop, and maintain the central automation platform that underpins GIC’s hybrid cloud infrastructure. The role focuses mainly on automation engineering developing reusable frameworks, APIs, and self-service capabilities and also involve in observability integration, ensuring automation is visible, measurable, and reliable.
You will play a key role in defining automation standards, ensuring compliance, and enabling other teams to adopt automation efficiently and securely.

What will you do as a VP, SRE Automation Platform Engineer?

• Design, develop, and maintain the central automation platform supporting hybrid cloud environments (AWS, Azure, on-prem).

• Build reusable automation frameworks, modules, and APIs that other teams can leverage to design their own automation workflows.

• Define and enforce automation standards, governance models, and best practices across the enterprise.

• Provide enablement and onboarding support for infrastructure, and application teams adopting the automation platform.

• Develop documentation, templates, and reference architectures to accelerate automation adoption across teams.

• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible to ensure consistent, auditable, and secure provisioning

• Develop orchestration workflows integrating with infrastructure components (Windows, Linux, DNS, AD, vCenter, Databases, etc.) via SDKs and APIs.

• Automate operational tasks, runbooks, and incident response workflows to reduce Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR).

• Build self-healing and auto-remediation capabilities using event-driven automation frameworks.

• Deep understanding of SRE principles, service health modelling, error budgets, and auto-remediation design.

• Strong understanding of Infrastructure and Cyber Services and applications.

• Familiarity with financial sector operational resilience frameworks, regulatory compliance, and incident governance.

What makes you a successful candidate?

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• At least 10 –12 years of experience in Infrastructure automation or SRE roles, with strong automation and platform engineering focus.
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale automation and orchestration solutions.
• Integration & Orchestration: ServiceNow Orchestration, Microsoft System Center Orchestrator, BMC Helix, or equivalent.
• Automation / IaC: Terraform, Ansible, Ansible EDA, Python, PowerShell, Bash.
• Compliance & Policy Enforcement: Terraform Sentinel, Ansible Lint.
• Cloud Platforms: AWS and Azure.
• Observability Tools: DataDog, Dynatrace, Splunk, ELK.
• CI/CD & DevOps: GitHub, Github Actions.
• Security & Governance: Familiarity with encryption, access management, and regulatory frameworks (e.g., MAS TRM, DOR
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• High sense of accountability, ownership, and innovation mindset.

Preferred Certifications

• Terraform or Ansible Certified Expert.
• Datadog or Dynatrace Certified Associate.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer / Azure DevOps Expert.
• SRE Foundation or Practitioner (DevOps Institute).
• ITIL v4 Managing Professional

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/