VP of Devops Engineering - United Overseas Bank
Senior platform/DevOps engineering leadership role at UOB in Singapore: the person owns the design, reliability, security, compliance and lifecycle of the bank's DevOps infrastructure — Linux servers, OpenShift/Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP cloud, middleware and CI/CD tooling — driving automation with Ansible, Terraform and scripting.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Singapore, Singapore
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- At least 8 years of experience in Linux system administration, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering
- At least 5 years of experience managing enterprise container platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift
- At least 5 years of experience managing cloud infrastructure in AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent
- Strong experience with server operating systems: RHEL, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu Linux
- Strong experience with Apache Server, Nginx, load balancers, reverse proxies, and TLS/SSL certificate management
- Experience managing enterprise-scale virtualized environments
- Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code practices
- Experience supporting internal and external audits
- Strong experience with Git, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD
- Experience building automated provisioning and deployment solutions
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Bash, Python, Shell scripting
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes, OpenShift, container runtimes, service mesh, ingress controllers, container networking, persistent storage
- Experience in platform monitoring, logging, observability, capacity planning, incident management, root cause analysis, disaster recovery
- Experience implementing OS hardening, security baselines, vulnerability remediation, risk management controls, compliance frameworks
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to lead technical initiatives independently
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Full description
Company: 1011 United Overseas Bank Ltd
About UOB
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in ASEAN with a global network in Southeast Asia, Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Operating through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, we have a global network of about 430 branches and offices in 19 markets. At the heart of UOB is our culture, shaped by the UOB Way and anchored on our four values - Honourable, Enterprising, United and Committed. For more than 90 years, these values have guided how we do right by our customers, collaborate with one another and create long-term value for the communities we operate in. As One Bank, we are committed to helping our colleagues build sustainable careers grounded in purpose, supported by strong values, and enriched with meaningful opportunities to grow.
Job Description
The incumbent is responsible for the engineering, architecture, lifecycle management, reliability, security, governance, risk management, and operational excellence of the organization's DevOps infrastructure platforms.
This role serves as the Technical Lead and Subject Matter Expert for all DevOps farm of compute infrastructure. It consists of VM's Linux servers, enterprise operating systems, OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), cloud infrastructure, middleware platforms, DevOps tooling, and supporting application infrastructure.
The incumbent will design, build, operate, maintain, modernize, secure, and continuously improve platform services while ensuring availability, scalability, compliance, performance, and operational resilience.
The role also provides leadership in infrastructure standards, obsolescence management, audit readiness, capacity planning, disaster recovery, risk mitigation, and technical governance across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
You will be responsible for ensuring the reliability and availability of DevOps CI/CD server systems. The primary responsibility is to provide full support for DevOps tools issues and service availability. In the event of DevOps tool service failures, you will perform root cause analysis and restore systems to a steady state as quickly as possible.
The role includes providing support for all DevOps tools version upgrades, Vulnerability management, Obsolescence remediation, OS/VM patching, SSL renewals on weekends schedule.
This role also focuses on continuous improvement and efficiency through automation initiatives, script development, and the transformation of DevOps tools and operations
Responsibilities: Platform Engineering & Architecture
- Design, build, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade infrastructure platforms supporting DevOps and application delivery.