Avp, Cloud Operations, Technology Group

**Location**:Singapore, SG

**Job Function**:Technology Group

**Job Type**:Permanent

**Req ID**:16741
- 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.

**Infrastructure Team**
You will help to build and sustain strong technology foundations forming the bedrock of GIC’s digital solutions.

**What will you do as an AVP, Cloud Operations?**
- Enable Cloud Native transformation strategy and roadmap
- Enable the next iteration of GIC’s cloud strategy by planning and executing against the vision for an agile organization that leverages cloud native to take full advantage of cloud computing
- Communicate the case for and benefits of increased cloud native adoption to senior stakeholders, business units and business solution teams
- Proactively keep updated on AWS/Azure updates and proactively propose, design, and implement changes to our cloud systems.
- Measure and track progress of GIC’s cloud strategy through the development of effective Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that set the conditions for successful cloud native adoption, culture, behaviour, and differentiating business outcomes

Enable Cloud Operations Excellence
- Champion and exemplify cloud native practices, including cloud native philosophy, architecture, principles, and culture
- Participate in product management, including research and proof-of-concept, for emerging cloud native services and platforms, for example, enterprise containerization, landing zones, orchestration, and automation
- Define and implement cloud reference architecture, standards, and processes within the enterprise, for example, provide opinionated landing zones that comprise a set of policies or rules to enforce a security baseline and prevent non-compliant activities
- Perform cloud governance role in disciplines like identity & access management, tenant/account management, security & compliance, and billing
- Provide common tooling, solutions, and patterns for cloud native adoption and developer enablement, productivity, and self-service
- Provide education and learning opportunities to enable teams to understand existing and emerging cloud computing technologies, as part of overall cloud capabilities building

Deliver Cloud Engineering and Operations
- Operate and continuously improve an opinionated set of technologies, on top of cloud service provider(s), to consolidate institutional knowledge, tooling, patterns and practices; and deployable artifacts to production
- Provision cloud services to developer teams based on pre-stipulated service level agreements
- Manage the maintenance of virtual appliances, for example, AMI, and base container images
- Manage cloud operations disciplines like patch management, network configuration, certificate management, logging agents, and intrusion detection
- Steward cloud spend and budget, including the monitoring of cumulative usage, identifying of areas for optimization, managing reserved instances (RI) and negotiating on committed spend agreements
- Manage support vendor partnerships through regular vendor stewardship meetings and service level and escalation reporting

**What qualifications or skills should you possess in this role?**
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in delivering hybrid cloud strategies, operating models, and technology service management practices
- Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent
- Proven experience in designing microservices, event driven architecture using open source,.NET, NodeJS, Python, Java, message queues, streaming, databases, and cloud data services
- Hands-on experience with cloud technologies including, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CICD on GITHUB, JFrog, Immutable Infrastructure, and declarative APIs
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure and Platform Automation technology products such as Amazon CloudFormation, HashiCorp Suite, Puppet, Ansible, GITHub
- Strong understanding of AGILE, and Product Management methodology
- Strong understanding and knowledge of industry technology standards, and security & compliance frameworks (e.g. NIST, CIS, CSM) and experience working with audit and regulatory bodies
- One or more AWS/Azure Certifications at Professional and/or Specialty level

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