Cloud Architect and Engineer

Singapore, Singapore, Singapore (4 Shenton Way, SGX Center 2)

Department

Cloud Centre of Excellence

Job posted on

Sep 10, 2025

Employment type

Permanent - Full Time

Singlife is a leading homegrown financial services company, offering consumers a better way to financial freedom. Through innovative, technology-enabled solutions and a wide range of products and services, Singlife provides consumers control over their financial wellbeing at every stage of their lives.

In addition to a comprehensive suite of insurance plans, employee benefits, partnerships with financial adviser channels and bancassurance, Singlife offers investment and advisory solutions through its GROW with Singlife platform. It also offers the Singlife Account, a mobile-first insurance savings plan.

Singlife is the exclusive insurance provider for the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Home Affairs and Public Officers Group Insurance Scheme. Singlife is also an official signatory of the United Nations Principles for Sustainable Insurance and the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, affirming its commitment to finding a better way to sustainability.

The merger of Aviva Singapore and Singlife was announced in September 2020 and created one of the largest homegrown financial services companies in Singapore in a deal valued at S$3.2 billion. It was the largest insurance deal in Singapore at the time. Singlife was subsequently acquired by Sumitomo Life in March 2024, one of Japan's leading life insurers, which valued Singlife at S$4.6 billion, making the transaction one of the largest insurance deals in Southeast Asia.

Job Summary

Singlife is seeking a highly experienced Cloud Architect & Engineer to join our Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE). This is a hybrid role where you will provide architecture leadership for enterprise-scale cloud solutions while also executing hands-on engineering delivery.

We are specifically looking for a candidate with very strong hands-on engineering capabilities who can design, build, and implement cloud-native solutions end-to-end. The successful candidate will help shape Singlife's cloud standards, security controls, and cost optimization practices while working closely with application, operations, and business teams. You will bring deep expertise in AWS services, CI/CD automation, Java (with strong proficiency in the Spring Boot framework), scripting, and cloud security, combined with proven troubleshooting skills and the ability to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant solutions.

Responsibilities

Architecture Leadership

• Lead the design of cloud-native architectures for complex, large-scale enterprise and digital-native workloads.
• Define reference architectures, reusable patterns, and best practices for multi-tier, microservices, and serverless applications.
• Conduct architecture reviews and provide recommendations for scalability, resilience, performance, and cost optimization.
• Partner with business stakeholders, solution architects, and engineering teams to align architectures with organizational goals and compliance standards.

Engineering Execution

• We are looking for a candidate with strong hands-on engineering capabilities who can translate architecture into working solutions. This includes:
• Building and deploying cloud-native applications using Java with the Spring Boot framework and related technologies.
• Architecting and implementing GitLab CI/CD pipelines for rapid, reliable delivery.
• Provisioning and managing AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, and ELB.
• Automating infrastructure provisioning with Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudFormation, Terraform).
• Troubleshooting and resolving complex issues across applications and infrastructure in both production and non-production environments.

Collaboration & Governance

• Work with CloudOps, DBA, Security, and application teams to deliver compliant and cost-optimized solutions.
• Ensure designs and implementations meet Singlife's cloud governance and security standards.
• Support the CCoE in driving adoption of best practices and reusable frameworks across projects.
• Contribute to technical documentation, architectural diagrams, and knowledge sharing within the team.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture and engineering roles.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS core services (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, ELB, VPC, IAM).
• Proficiency in Java with expertise in the Spring Boot framework.
• Solid understanding of container-based deployments, orchestration, and lifecycle management.
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, Ansible, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Proven ability to design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure architectures.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD and automation frameworks (GitLab, CloudFormation, Terraform).
• Working knowledge of cloud security, IAM, and encryption practices.
• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and performance tuning skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage executives, architects, and developers.
• AWS certifications: Solutions Architect – Professional, DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• Experience with container orchestration (ECS, EKS) and serverless design patterns.
• Knowledge of observability frameworks (CloudWatch, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Prometheus).
• Familiarity with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectures (AWS and OCI).
• Experience working in high-scale, high-availability environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead end-to-end architecture + engineering projects in enterprise or digital-native organizations.