Associate Specialist, Cloud Web Platforms Engineer

Job Description

Associate Specialist, Cloud Web Platforms Engineer

• Opportunity to be a part of a Engineering, Development & Integration team in Singapore!
• Based in Singapore, the regional hub for Asia Pacific (AP) and top-ranked biopharmaceutical company on The Straits Times and Statista's list of Best Employers in Singapore for three consecutive years (2020, 2021, 2022).
• Join the premier biopharmaceutical company that has been in Singapore for more than 25 years and in AP for over 60 years.

The App Dev Platform Team provide development teams a pre-paved path to run and operate applications via a Platform-as-a-Service model. Enable application product teams by delivering infrastructure solutions and Application Development Platforms, primarily through the development of Infrastructure-as-Code. The team also help develops the strategy and works with teams worldwide to govern, grow, and operate Cloud solutions. Our team embraces the regulatory challenges of our industry and drives innovative, secure, and compliant use of Cloud Service Providers. We operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate closely with internal and external partners worldwide to mature our ability to utilize Cloud Service Providers. We also impact application development agility worldwide via our cloud-based application hosting Platform as a Service (PaaS).

You are an experienced Web, Software engineer with Cloud Infrastructure, network background, PaaS, automation solutions, passion in solving complex issues and reducing TOIL. We want you to be part of our global team which focuses on making it easier for modern applications host their application to our PaaS solutions in an automated fashion.

Primary Responsibilities

• Contributes to architecture, design, and engineering of global Tanzu Application Service (Cloud Foundry)Platform, Azure ASE and Web Redirect Service.
• Defines best practices and guidelines for the Application Hosting PaaS.
• Contributes to identifying capability gaps in product capabilities and designing solutions to address it.
• Executes on opportunities to automate and simplify maintenance and lifecycle of platform services
• Maintains current industry knowledge of cloud and application hosting PaaS concepts, best practices, and technologies
• Prioritizes workloads, commitments, and scheduled timelines.
• Frequent interaction with product managers and engineering teams to onboard their new workloads to our products
• Documents, reviews, and ensures that all System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and company policy standards are met
• Provide point of escalation for product customer support team

Education Minimum Requirement:

• BS Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
• Relevant certification or completion of equivalent program in areas such as Software Development, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Hands-on experience with Cloud Service Providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, etc.) IaaS and networking such as VPC, Subnets, Security groups, etc.
• Understanding of web and network protocols such as HTTP/S, TCP/IP, DNS
• Understanding of basic routing concepts
• Experience with Linux Operations or System Administration
• Experience with scripting language such as Python or Unix shell scripts with strong focus towards automation
• Experience with software solution design and documentation

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• 2 to 4 years of experience in IT field and/or related program
• Ability to work in a matrixed and highly concurrent environment
• Demonstrated ability to plan and execute on a project or experiment, including milestones and endpoints
• Experience working as part a global, diverse team
• Experience using, implementing and/or operating Cloud Foundry or similar PaaS (e.g. Elastic Beanstalk)
• Experience with Amazon Web Services such as VPC, Route53, EC2, ALB, S3, RDS, S3, IAM, etc.
• Relevant certification (e.g. AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Experience debugging software and/or scripting errors.
• Experience with infrastructure, network, database, or security troubleshooting.
• Experience delivering products and features using Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Experience with DevOps tools such as git, Terraform, Jira, Jenkins, CloudBees, etc.
• Experience in System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) documentation.

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Requisition ID:R247000