Senior Big Data Platform Engineer

Data processing is an essential part of national security in the modern world. As an engineer in our Big Data Platform team, you will build and own a solid data platform as the foundation to support critical national security missions. You will push the limits of technology to ensure that the whole big data pipeline runs optimally and smoothly from ingestion to processing to persistence. You are encouraged to suggest the best way to deliver value and the technologies used. Join the awesome CSIT family and use cutting-edge technologies to protect the nation.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain real-time high-volume data processing, querying and persistence solutions using Big Data technologies
• Design and implement highly available, resilient, scalable and sustainable Big Data platforms
• Administer (configuration, backup and recovery) Big Data platform services running across multiple clusters
• Deploy and manage the cluster efficiently using DevOps and automation tools
• Build performance and health monitoring tools to ensure optimal system performance and availability
• Work closely with different teams to ensure smooth onboarding and operations of the Big Data platform
• Conduct resource planning and scaling exercises to support increasing workload
• Conduct research and evaluations of new technologies
• Innovate and improve the current system

Requirements (Minimum Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Able to communicate clearly
• Positive attitude and excellent teamwork
• Passionate about big data technologies
• Love for open source technologies

Additional qualifications for senior position:
• At least 5 years of experience in big data domain
• Deep expertise in big data platform
• Experience in leading engineering teams
• Technical leadership and mentoring/coaching experience

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in distributed systems
• Experience in supporting search workloads in multi-terabytes and billions of records
• Experience in managing physical and virtual infrastructures
• Experience in using and managing Hadoop cluster services (Spark, Kafka, HBase, Hive, Hadoop, HDFS, Nifi, Kudu, Solr, ElasticSearch)
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving issues of the Big Data stack, ranging from hardware, networking, OS to software
• Experience with cluster management and DevOps tools (e.g. Ansible, Kubernetes)
• Experience working with application or product teams
• Experience working in an agile and innovative environment

Why join us?

• The work is purposeful and meaningful
• You will work with the best engineers
• We work with modern technologies and tech stacks
• We have excellent engineering culture and work-life balance
• We aspire to engineering and operational excellence
• We empower to innovate
• We grow together as a family

As CSIT is an agency under the Ministry of Defence (Singapore), only Singapore Citizens will be considered.