Senior Cloud and Platform Engineer

Company Description

RHB Singapore is a progressive and growing financial organization. We are committed to creating a fulfilling, dynamic and engaging work environment for our team of more than 15,000 employees across locations in ASEAN.

**Job Description**:
**Primary Objective**

Cloud Specific
- Ensure IT operations and performance of IT systems hosted on the cloud to ensure operational effectiveness and efficiency
- Ensure cloud infra and workload running on the cloud infra is operated in a manner that complies with Bank Policies and frameworks, standards, circulars, guidelines and MAS regulated act, notices, circulars, and guidelines applicable to technology (Compliance, Audit, Risk Adherence).
- Ensure IT assets of cloud infra and workloads hosted on the cloud infra are protected and secure
- Contribute in the annual budgeting related to cloud infra and then effective usage and spend within budget the Capital and Operational expenditures
- Be a key stakeholder and technology partner on the bank Digital journey.
- Be a lead to ensure a strong and competent cloud engineer team.
- Foster and champion bank PRIDE values within the technology department and imbue the department with a culture of teamwork, innovation, discipline, resiliency and dedication to how work is approached.
- Manage test environments on Cloud to ensure business can do their enhancements and new projects testing
- Promote, mentor, champion and assist technology department on their journey.

Platform
- Maintain and ensure infra components running in production are in a healthy state;
- Analyze and recommend new infra component acquisitions to meet evolving Singapore Operation’s needs;
- Ensure IT is operated in a manner that complies with Bank Policies and frameworks, standards, circulars, guidelines and MAS regulated act, notices, circulars, and guidelines applicable to technology (Compliance, Audit, Risk Adherence). - Infra components Ensure IT assets are protected and secure - Infra components
- Assist in annual budgeting - Infra components
- Be a key stakeholder and technology partner on the bank Digital journey.
- Foster and champion bank PRIDE values within the technology department and imbue the department with a culture of teamwork, innovation, discipline, resiliency and dedication to how work is approached.
- Provide day-to-day support for infra components
- Middleware, DB: Middleware (IBM HQ, Oracle Weblogic, Redhat JBOSS, ICBA JHIT), DB (SQL Server, Oracle RDBMS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS Dynamo DB, AWS RDS / Aurora, AWS Redshift, MongoDB)

**Key Responsibilities**

Strategy, Planning, Mgmt. Reporting
- Provide expert advice and support to technology management in the area of Cloud and DevOps expertise
- Contribute in the formulation a comprehensive Branch IT strategy covering IT policies and procedures, security, architecture, business solutions and operational functional requirements
- Keep abreast of developments and innovations in the FI IT landscape with a focus on Cloud and DevOps
- Provide mentorship, support and guidance to colleagues, share information and facilitate problem solving Contribute in the yearly budgeting for IT expenditures and investments.

Cloud Infra and Platforms (Cloud and non Cloud) Operations
- Oversee performance monitoring of systems to ensure outstanding operational effectiveness at low operating costs - Cloud infra and both Cloud and non-Cloud for DB, Middleware components
- Ensure prompt and efficient provision of IT support - Cloud infra and both Cloud and non
- Cloud for DB, Middleware components
- Oversee contingency plans and ensure their adequacy - Cloud infra and both Cloud and non-Cloud for DB, Middleware components
- Ensure IT assets are protected and secure - Cloud infra and both Cloud and non-Cloud for DB, Middleware components
- Ensure IT operations run in a manner consistent with high score from audit, risk, compliance assessments. The following to be operationalized as standard procedure against all IT asset components - Cloud infra and both Cloud and non-Cloud for DB, Middleware components.:

- Administrative Accounts - All admin accounts lodged into PAM solution per group IT Security guidelines and MAS notice 655 point 4.1
- Patching - Patch notification process established with vendors and patch calendar updated, upon patch release assessment and implementation as needed Per patching guidelines and MAS notice 655 point 4.2
- Hardening - Per component definition and enforcement against SG security standard and Group IT Security guidelines and SG addendum/s and MAS notice 655 point 4.3
- Network Perimeter Defense - Network traffic and segments, firewalls, proxies, dns, vpn access setup in secure manner per group IT security guidelines and MAS notice 655 4.4
- Malware - IT Security consulted and all required IT security protections installed on IT assets per MAS notice 655 point 4.5
- Multi-factor Authentication - MFA, where applicable implement MFA of administrative and interne