DevOps Engineer

Activate Interactive Pte Ltd (“Activate”) is a leading technology consultancy headquartered in Singapore with a presence in Malaysia and Indonesia. Our clients are empowered with quality, cost-effective, and impactful end-to-end application development, like mobile and web applications, and cloud technology that remove technology roadblocks and increase their business efficiency.

We believe in positively impacting the lives of people around us and the environment we live in through the use of technology. Hence, we are committed to providing a conducive environment for all employees to realise their full potential, who in turn have the opportunity to continuously drive innovation.

We are searching for our next team members to join our growing team.

If you love the idea of being part of a growing company with exciting prospects in mobile and web technologies that create positive impact on people’s lives, then we would love to hear from you.

Co-Development Business Unit is hiring for DevOps Engineer

You will work in Singapore Government Agencies

This is a fixed term contract role. The engagement is 1 year.

What will you do?

• The DevSecOps Engineer is responsible for designing, automating, and maintaining secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• The role requires expertise in cloud platforms, automation, security best practices, and modern DevOps methodologies. Engineers must work in an agile, collaborative environment, ensuring seamless integration of security into development workflows and infrastructure operations.
• Develop automation and processes to enable teams to deploy, manage, scale, and monitor applications in data centers and cloud environments.
• Troubleshoot and resolve system and application issues across platforms, participating in on-call escalations for critical incidents.
• Take ownership of end-to-end infrastructure and security solutions across the organization.
• Deploy and manage monitoring tools to track infrastructure performance, utilization, and health
• Implement configuration management systems for business continuity and automate disaster recovery measures.
• Provision virtual machines, databases, application containers, and licenses
• for development teams.
• Configure and maintain CI/CD pipelines, incorporating streamlined change management and release processes.
• Develop scripts and automation tools to support software build, integration, and deployment across development and production environments.
• Automate the configuration management of development, quality assurance, and production workloads.
• Design, build, optimize, and monitor automation systems to identify bottlenecks and maximize service availability.
• Implement security practices that comply with industry standards to protect the organization’s data and infrastructure.
• Plan, implement, and monitor system security architecture, including threat and risk assessments.
• Perform security checks, such as vulnerability assessments and system hardening, and troubleshoot security incidents.
• Apply secure configurations and best practices when implementing security controls in infrastructure and applications.
• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics
• Engineering, Information Technology, or related disciplines. Passion for automation, standardization, and best practices in infrastructure and security.

What are we looking for?

• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), TestDriven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Delivery (CD).
• Experience working with high availability, high performance, and highsecurity multi-data center systems and hybrid cloud environments
• Proficiency in at least three programming/scripting languages (Bash,
• PowerShell, Python, Go).
• Experience with Git and modern branching workflows.
• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Experience with automated provisioning tools (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Vagrant).
• Hands-on experience with virtualization technologies (KVM, VMware, HyperV).
• Strong understanding of container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) tools (Prometheus, Helm, ArgoCD, Istio, Gatekeeper, Crossplane).
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and observability tools.
• Strong ability to troubleshoot complex issues across system resources and application stacks.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools (GitLab, Jenkins, BitBucket, ArgoCD).
• Experience with disaster recovery planning, system backup, and restore processes.
• Knowledge of RPM-based software packaging and deployment

Security & Compliance:

• Experience implementing security controls within CI/CD pipelines and cloudnative architectures.
• Hands-on experience with security assessments, vulnerability scanning, and system hardening.
• Familiarity with enterprise security tools (HashiCorp Vault, ElasticSearch Enterprise, Tenable, HP Fortify, Sonatype Nexus IQ, AWS security services).
• Strong understanding of network infrastructure, including firewalls, subnets, routing, and access controls.
• Experience performing security assessments in government or highly regulated environments.
• Security certifications such as CREST, CISSP, CISM, or relevant cloud security credentials.
• Experience working in an organization that successfully implemented
• DevSecOps transformation.
• Experience with security and compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST, CIS benchmarks).
• Hands-on experience with API security, secrets management, and zero-trust architectures.
• Knowledge of service mesh security implementations (Istio, Linkerd).

What do we offer in return? 

Competitive Compensation: Market competitive salary and variable performance bonus aligned to your skills, impact, and contribution. 

Benefits: Outpatient medical, specialist medical coverage and generous customisable flexi benefits, or flexi allowance; life and health insurance, thoughtful perks like special occasions “red packet” and CNY goodies, etc. 

Employee Wellness: Support for your physical, mental, and overall well-being through year-round initiatives. 

Growth & Development: Learning programmes, certification support, and a dedicated staff development budget. (We are a “SHRI 2025 Gold winner” in “Learning & Development; Coaching & Mentoring”) 

Career Progression: Structured career pathways that enable you to grow along a technical/domain expert track or a leadership track. 

Competency Framework: A structured and practical framework to support you to develop, perform, and succeed. 

Flexible Work Arrangement: Staff may choose to work flexi-place, flexi-time, and flexi-load based on existing framework 

Why you'll love working with us? 

If you are looking for opportunities to collaborate with leading industry experts and be surrounded by highly motivated and talented peers, we welcome you to join us. We provide all employees with equal opportunities to grow and develop with us. We believe your success is our success. 

Does it sound like something you are interested in exploring further? Please be in touch with our team for an initial chat. 

Activate Interactive Singapore is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. Activate Interactive Pte Ltd does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, sexuality, national origin, age, disability, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law. 

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