Senior Infrastructure Engineer

**[What the role is]**

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is Singapore’s central bank and integrated financial regulator.

As central bank, MAS promotes sustained, non-inflationary economic growth through the conduct of monetary policy and close macroeconomic surveillance and analysis. It manages Singapore’s exchange rate, official foreign reserves, and liquidity in the banking sector.

As an integrated financial supervisor, MAS fosters a sound financial services sector through its prudential oversight of all financial institutions in Singapore - banks, insurers, capital market intermediaries, financial advisors, and stock exchanges. It is also responsible for well-functioning financial markets, sound conduct, and investor education.

MAS also works with the financial industry to promote Singapore as a dynamic international financial centre. It facilitates the development of infrastructure, adoption of technology, and upgrading of skills in the financial industry.

Join us now, if you have a genuine interest in making an impact to help shape Singapore’s economic and financial landscape.

**[What you will be working on]**

We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead to oversee our storage, backup, and cloud operations, combining traditional enterprise storage expertise with modern cloud infrastructure management. This role will lead technical initiatives across our hybrid storage environment, ensure robust backup and recovery capabilities, and drive innovation in our cloud transformation journey, while ensuring smooth day-to-day operations.

The Technical Lead will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and managing enterprise storage and backup solutions while maintaining operational excellence.

Technical Leadership
- Design and implement enterprise-wide storage and backup architecture spanning on-premises and cloud environments (Government Cloud)
- Lead the strategic direction for storage and backup solutions, including cloud migration initiatives
- Provide technical mentorship to team members and establish best practices
- Drive automation and infrastructure-as-code initiatives for storage and backup operations
- Manage a team of 2 storage engineers

Backup & Recovery Management
- Design and maintain enterprise backup architecture
- Develop and implement backup policies and retention strategies
- Monitor backup success rates and investigate failed backups
- Perform regular backup restoration testing and validation
- Implement and maintain disaster recovery procedures
- Optimise backup windows and resource utilisation
- Configure and maintain backup reporting and monitoring systems
- Ensure compliance with data retention policies and regulatory requirements

BAU Operations & Support
- Manage daily storage and backup operations, including provisioning, monitoring, and troubleshooting
- Handle incident management and provide 24x7 on-call support when required
- Perform regular health checks and preventive maintenance
- Execute backup and recovery operations, ensuring data integrity and availability
- Monitor storage capacity and performance metrics
- Process and fulfil service requests within agreed SLAs
- Maintain up-to-date documentation of all operational procedures
- Conduct regular system patching and firmware updates
- Generate periodic reports on storage utilisation and performance

Operations Management
- Oversee the management of Hitachi storage systems and Commvault backup infrastructure
- Architect and implement cloud storage and backup solutions across multiple platforms
- Develop disaster recovery and business continuity strategies
- Establish and maintain storage and backup performance metrics
- Create and maintain technical documentation and operational procedures
- Participate in change management processes and maintenance windows

Innovation and Strategy
- Work closely with cloud engineering team to evaluate and adopt newer technologies in storage domain
- Lead proof-of-concept initiatives for new storage and backup solutions
- Develop roadmaps for storage and backup modernisation using available cloud technology.
- Optimise storage and backup costs across hybrid cloud environments

**[What we are looking for]**
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- Minimum 8 years of experience in enterprise storage and backup administration, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership role
- Extensive experience with Hitachi storage systems and Commvault backup solutions
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification (required)
- AWS Storage Specialty certification (preferred)
- Government Cloud backup and storage operations experience (preferred)
- Proven experience in storage and backup automation
- Advanced knowledge of storage networking protocols and backup technologies

**Technical Skills**
- Enterprise Storage: Hitachi Vantara storage systems, SAN/NAS architectures
- Backup Solutions: Commvault administration and arc