VP, Network Automation and Reliability Engineer, Technology Group

GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 locations around the world, we invest in more than 40 countries globally across asset classes and businesses. Working at GIC gives you exposure to an extraordinary network of the world’s industry leaders. As a leading global long-term investor, we Work at the Point of Impact for Singapore’s financial future, and the communities we invest in worldwide.

Technology Group We experiment, design, and lead a 24×7 global business where we support core capabilities in asset management, trading, investment operations, and risk management. We deliver secure, reliable, and integrated solutions, and provide insights on new, and emerging technologies.

What will you do as an AVP/VP, Network Automation and Reliability Engineer? We are seeking a highly accomplished and hands-on Network Automation and Reliability Engineer with deep expertise in large-scale network engineering, automation, and observability. This individual will serve as a technical subject matter expert (SME) responsible for designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks that enhance the reliability, scalability, and security of GIC’s global network infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will combine strong foundational networking knowledge with advanced automation and coding skills, driving innovation across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. He/she is a senior technical leader who thrives on building, coding, and solving complex network challenges.

Strategic Leadership and Vision:

• Define and execute the long-term strategy for network automation, reliability, and observability across global data centers, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Drive the transformation of network operations through automation, resilience engineering, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across Technology Group (TG) to align network strategy with enterprise architecture and digital transformation initiatives.
• Champion a culture of automation-first and reliability engineering across the network organization.

Network Automation and Engineering Excellence:

• Design, develop, and maintain production-grade automation frameworks using Ansible, Python, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Build reusable Ansible collections, Python libraries, and REST API integrations for network and security platforms.
• Implement GitOps practices for network configuration management, including version control, automated testing, and continuous deployment.
• Integrate automation workflows with enterprise DevOps toolchains (e.g., GitHub, Ansible, Terraform, ITSM tools).
• Develop automated validation and rollback mechanisms for network changes.
• Perform hands-on development, testing, and deployment of automation workflows in production environments.
• Act as the escalation point for complex network automation and reliability issues, performing deep-dive troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Evaluate and implement emerging automation technologies to enhance scalability, reliability, and efficiency.

Foundational Network Architecture and Operations:

• Serve as the SME for core network domains — routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing, WAN optimization, and hybrid cloud connectivity.
• Provide architectural oversight for critical network platforms including Cisco, Checkpoint, Palo Alto, F5, Zscaler, Symantec, and AWS.
• Lead modernization initiatives to ensure high availability, security, and performance across the global network.
• Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, and lifecycle management to maintain operational excellence.
• Establish and enforce network reliability standards, ensuring minimal downtime and rapid recovery from incidents.

Firewall and Security Automation:

• Develop and maintain automation for firewall policy management, rule lifecycle, and compliance validation across Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Cisco, and cloud-native firewalls.
• Integrate firewall automation workflows with change management and compliance systems (e.g., AlgoSec, ITSM tools).
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity teams to embed security controls and compliance into network automation and operational processes.

Observability, Tooling, and Reliability Engineering:

• Design and implement observability pipelines for network telemetry (e.g., streaming telemetry, SNMP, NetFlow, sFlow) integrated with Grafana, Prometheus, …