Director, Systems Engineering (Compute Operations /Linux)

Location: Singapore; at least 3 days in the office required

Company

hirify.global operates global payments technology connecting consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories.

What you will do

• Lead a global Compute Operations function and manage a local Singapore-based engineering team supporting 24x7x365 operations.
• Manage service availability, reliability, supportability, incident escalation, change management, and problem management.
• Oversee heterogeneous hardware and operating system infrastructure, including Linux, AIX, CentOS, Windows, and HP, Dell, and IBM platforms.
• Manage virtualization and container technologies, including VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Hyper-V, with exposure to AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Drive operational improvements, technology strategy, governance, KPI-based management, disaster recovery, and business continuity activities.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration, mentor senior technical professionals, support technology transformation, and coordinate cybersecurity risk mitigation.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in technology, information security, or compute administration, including 6+ years in management; preferred experience is 12–15 years.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field.
• Experience leading enterprise-level compute operations, infrastructure engineering, or large software and tools development teams.
• Advanced compute certification such as VCP, RHCSA, AWS, CKA, GCP, or a relevant industry certification.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure operations, monitoring, systems security, OS hardening, vulnerability remediation, patch management, and multi-vendor networking.
• Strong communication, analytical, troubleshooting, consensus-building, and metrics-driven management skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Spectrum Scale or ScaleIO storage clustering software.
• Automation experience with Ansible and/or Python.
• Experience with large-scale compute deployments, cloud technologies, SDN, and big data analytics.
• Experience leading enterprise technology and cultural transformation programs.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a diverse, global Infrastructure Reliability Engineering organization.
• Collaborate with Compute Tools, Compute Engineering, Compute Architecture, Systems, Database, Audit, Risk, and other technology teams.
• Operate in a critical, high-availability production environment with strict service-level expectations.
• Contribute to technology and innovation initiatives with global operational impact.