Full Time Senior Data Platform Engineer (Ingest - Storage) – Contract Jobs, Salary up to SGD 13,000 in PATHSOURCE CONSULTING PTE. LTD. Southeast (Singapore) - Maukerja

The client is a Singapore-based data consultancy seeking a hands-on Senior Infrastructure Engineer to deploy and operate the ingestion and distributed-storage layer of a large-scale on-premise data platform.

This is an initial six-month contract, with the potential for extension or conversion to a permanent position based on business requirements and individual performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and operate scalable batch and streaming ingestion services in an on-premise or hybrid environment.
• Build and support high-throughput data ingestion using Apache Kafka and dltHub or comparable ingestion frameworks.
• Containerise platform components using Docker and deploy and operate production workloads on Kubernetes.
• Deploy and administer Ceph-based distributed storage, covering capacity, performance, availability and recovery.
• Build and maintain lakehouse storage using Apache Iceberg tables and Apache Polaris catalogues.
• Integrate ingestion and storage services with downstream Spark, Trino, ClickHouse and transformation workloads.
• Monitor platform health, throughput, storage and logs using VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaLogs or comparable tools.
• Troubleshoot ingestion, storage, networking, Kubernetes and production-performance issues.
• Produce technical documentation, operating procedures and recovery runbooks.
• Work directly with technical stakeholders and contribute as a senior individual contributor.

Requirements

• Minimum six years of hands-on experience in

data-platform infrastructure, distributed storage, data ingestion

or a closely related role.

• Production experience with both

Docker and Kubernetes

is mandatory.

• Strong experience deploying and operating data platforms in on-premise or hybrid environments.
• Hands-on production experience with

Apache Kafka and distributed ingestion

architecture.

• Practical experience deploying or administering Ceph or comparable software-defined distributed storage.
• Experience with

Apache Iceberg

and data catalogues such as Apache Polaris.

• Experience using dltHub or a comparable Python-based data-ingestion framework.
• Strong understanding of Linux, networking, storage, high availability, performance tuning, backup and recovery.
• Experience supporting high-volume platforms at terabyte or petabyte scale.
• Ability to operate independently and communicate effectively with client and technical stakeholders.
• Willingness to accept a six-to-twelve-month contract and attend client locations when required.

Preferred Experience

• Data-platform delivery within regulated sectors such as banking, fintech, healthcare or data centres.
• Experience with Kubernetes Operators, Helm, CI/CD and infrastructure automation.
• Experience integrating ingestion and storage services with Spark, Trino, ClickHouse or dbt.

This position focuses on data ingestion, distributed storage and platform infrastructure. It is not primarily a business-intelligence, dashboarding, visualisation or data-analyst role.

How to Apply

Submit your application by emailing your updated resume in MS Word format to:

Wills Heng Wei He

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