Company: 1011 United Overseas Bank Ltd
About UOB
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values – Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.
Job Description
Lead the design, deployment, administration, and lifecycle management of the OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), ensuring high availability, scalability, security, and performance.
- Plan and manage infrastructure deliverables related to OCP clusters, including upgrades, patches, platform enhancements, and capacity planning.
- Collaborate with application teams, DevOps engineers, and security teams to onboard workloads, manage platform dependencies, and ensure smooth application deployment on OpenShift.
- Oversee day‑to‑day operations of OpenShift infrastructure, including cluster health monitoring, performance tuning, logging, monitoring, and incident resolution.
- Drive automation initiatives for infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipeline integration, configuration management, and container orchestration best practices.
- Partner with Enterprise Architects, Security Architects, Platform Engineers, and Cloud Teams to ensure compliance with organizational architecture principles, governance, and security standards.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation related to platform architecture, operational procedures, runbooks, and disaster recovery plans.
- Support and manage platform-related testing activities (e.g., performance testing, failover testing, security testing) to ensure environment readiness.
- Provide timely escalation and resolutions for infrastructure risks and issues that may impact system uptime, project timelines, or production stability.
- Lead platform-related technical incident investigations and root cause analysis; implement preventive measures.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers in container platform operations, automation, and DevOps practices.
- Coordinate infrastructure implementation activities, ensuring smooth production cutover and post‑implementation support for platform changes.
Job Requirements
Technical Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on expertise with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), Kubernetes, and container orchestration technologies.
- Solid understanding of Linux systems administration (preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
- Experience in managing OpenShift clusters across on‑premise, hybrid cloud, or public cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tooling, and automation frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD).
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Proficiency in network concepts related to container platforms (service mesh, ingress/egress, routing, load balancing).
- Experience in implementing platform security controls (RBAC, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, audit logging).
- Familiarity with logging and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stacks, Splunk).
- Experience in performing OpenShift cluster upgrades, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
- Background in infrastructure operations with exposure to virtualization, storage, and enterprise networking.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex platform issues across compute, network, security, and application layers.
- Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and systems thinking skills.
Leadership & Soft Skills
- Minimum 10–15 years of IT infrastructure experience, with at least 5 years focused on container platforms or cloud infrastructure.
- Experience leading infrastructure teams or platform engineering teams in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, especially when engaging application teams, security, cloud teams, and senior management.
- Strong communication skills with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Results‑driven, proactive, and able to manage concurrent initiatives in fast‑paced environments.
Education & Cerifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline.
- Red Hat certifications (e.g., RHCSA, RHCE, OpenShift Administrator/Architect) are highly advantageous.
- Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) are preferred.
- Training or certifications in DevOps, Kubernetes, or SRE practices are beneficial.
Additional Requirements
Role Type (GTO)
Be a Part of the UOB Family
UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.
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