Platform Engineer

About Vitol

Vitol stands at the forefront of the energy industry, operating across the entire spectrum including oil, power, renewables, and carbon sectors. With a global footprint of 40 offices, the company leverages extensive market insight and scale to provide value throughout the energy supply chain and actively supports the energy transition, having invested over $2 billion in renewable initiatives worldwide. Vitol champions a culture where talent thrives unrestricted by hierarchy, fostering diversity among its workforce that spans more than 65 nationalities.

Role Overview

Joining Vitol’s global Cloud & Platform Engineering team in Singapore, you will play a pivotal role in managing, enhancing, and evolving shared platforms, CI/CD infrastructure, and cloud services organization-wide. This position blends strategic planning with direct engineering, encompassing platform/tool development and operational accountability. Your main focus will be on advancing shared platform capabilities and ensuring operational excellence of the supported systems while contributing to strategic roadmap development.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the advancement and continuous optimization of Vitol’s global shared platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud services.
• Develop and maintain platform tools, automation workflows, deployment templates, and CI/CD pipelines across hybrid cloud and on-premise setups.
• Take ownership of platform stability and provide operational support, including incident handling, problem resolution, routine upgrades, and lifecycle oversight.
• Collaborate with development teams to enhance developer experience and facilitate secure, reliable, and efficient software delivery.
• Partner with Cyber Security teams to integrate secure methods in cloud environments, automation processes, CI/CD pipelines, and platform management, covering access controls, secrets handling, vulnerability patching, and hardening.
• Engage with global colleagues in a follow-the-sun support model ensuring knowledge exchange, adherence to standards, and consistent operations.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience building and operating CI/CD platforms supporting .NET and/or Python application environments.
• At least 3 years’ experience managing and supporting large-scale enterprise platforms, whether bespoke or commercial.
• Over 3 years working with cloud platform engineering, focusing on reusable infrastructure, automation, and platform services within AWS-based hybrid environments.
• Proficient in both Windows and Linux systems including OS-level knowledge, tooling, and ecosystem familiarity.
• Practical experience with CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, source control, containerization, and artifact management tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, GitLab/GitHub, AWS ECS, and optionally Nexus.
• Experience maintaining shared enterprise platforms such as Kafka, Redis, Atlassian Suite, Elastic, Datadog, ActiveBatch, or Prefect.
• Programming/scripting skills in Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell.
• Interest in employing AI-driven engineering methods to enhance platform operations, developer workflows, CI/CD processes, and support mechanisms.
• Strong communication and interpersonal abilities to engage with development, infrastructure, security, and business units effectively.
• Proven record of independently managing issues and initiatives to successful completion.
• Proactive, user-centric approach with enthusiasm for both the technical and functional components of challenges.
• Self-driven with capacity to handle deadlines and shifting priorities.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Desired Skills and Experiences

• Background in commodities or trading sectors.
• Experience influencing CI/CD strategy at the enterprise level.
• Software development experience in .NET or Python.
• Utilization of AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot to boost productivity, code quality, and automation.
• Development experience of internal AI-powered developer tools, agents, or integrations using protocols such as MCP.
• SecOps experience including platforms like HashiCorp Vault.
• Prior AWS Cloud Engineer experience.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure environments.