SQUAREPOINT SERVICES SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. Hiring! Full Time Platform Specialist PLC in Central Region (Singapore), Earn up to SGD 22,500 - Ricebowl

Position Overview:
Squarepoint is seeking a Platform Specialist to join our global Platform Compute (PLC) team. This role is ideal for experienced engineers with a strong software development background who are passionate about building scalable, resilient infrastructure systems. You will architect, develop, and optimize compute platforms that support our high-performance, data-intensive workloads. You'll work closely with global engineering teams to design and implement infrastructure-as-code, observability pipelines, and self-healing systems. This is a hands-on engineering role with a strong emphasis on automation, performance tuning, and developer enablement.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:
Architect and evolve scalable compute platforms using modern infrastructure engineering practices.

Design and implement automation frameworks for provisioning, configuration management, and lifecycle operations.

Develop internal tooling and APIs to abstract infrastructure complexity and improve productivity.

Take part in bulk server provisioning which may include using remote hands to complete tasks.

Drive observability initiatives by building and integrating telemetry pipelines (metrics, logs, traces).

Collaborate with software engineering teams to ensure infrastructure supports application scalability, reliability, and security.

Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices across the team.

Participate in on-call, incident response and postmortems, driving long-term improvements through automation and architectural changes.

Qualifications/Skills Desired:
Expert-level Linux systems administration (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu)

Configuration management (e.g., Ansible, Chef, SaltStack)

Proficient in Python, Go, or Rust for infrastructure tooling

Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure (compute, storage, networking, IAM)

Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)

Monitoring and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Zabbix)

Logging and tracing (e.g., ELK stack, Fluentd, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger

Identity and access management (e.g., LDAP, Kerberos, OAuth2)

Cloud-native services (e.g., S3, EBS, GKE, EKS, Cloud Functions)

Git-based workflows and version control

Agile methodologies and DevOps culture

Test-driven infrastructure development and automated testing frameworks

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Nice to have:
CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD)

Hybrid cloud architecture and workload migration strategies

Virtualization technologies (e.g., KVM, VMware, Hyper-V)

Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects or internal developer platforms

Containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)

Secure system design and hardening (e.g., SELinux, AppArmor, CIS benchmarks)

Experience with Netbox using IPAM and custom modules
Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients. We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. With offices around the globe, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology and operations teams functionally around the world.