Data Engineer (Observability Engineer) - A26323

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 looking for Data Engineer (Observability Engineer)

This is a 1 - year contract role.

Internal Code: A26323

Digital Excellence & Products Division (DXD) is a GovTech team within the Ministry of Education (MOE). DXD sits at the intersection of technology, design, and education, building meaningful products, platforms, and digital services that improve teaching, learning, school operations, and the experience of students, teachers, and school leaders.

What will you do?

We are looking for an Observability Engineer to help build and operate the observability capabilities of the future SSOE platform.

You will help provide end-to-end visibility across MOE's technology environment, spanning on-premises infrastructure, networks, applications, cloud platforms, and hybrid environments. You will enable engineering and operations teams to understand system health, identify issues early, diagnose incidents quickly, and continuously improve service reliability.

As an Observability Engineer, you will establish and operate consistent observability capabilities across SSOE infrastructure and applications.

You will work across metrics, events, logs, and traces to provide a unified view of service health and performance. You will define instrumentation standards, service-level indicators and objectives, alerting strategies, dashboards, and operational health signals.

You will work closely with application, infrastructure, network, security, and platform teams to ensure observability is built into services from the outset rather than added after deployment.

Observability Engineering

• Design and operate end-to-end observability across on-premise infrastructure, networks, applications, cloud platforms, and hybrid environments
• Collect, aggregate, and correlate metrics, events, logs, and traces across infrastructure and application workloads
• Define and maintain observability standards that work consistently across legacy, on-premise, containerised, and cloud-native systems
• Establish application and infrastructure instrumentation standards using OpenTelemetry and other appropriate technologies
• Support engineering teams with instrumentation, SDK, agent, and telemetry integration
• Define common conventions for service naming, metadata, tagging, correlation IDs, and telemetry enrichment
• Identify observability gaps and continuously improve end-to-end visibility across SSOE services

Service Reliability & Monitoring

• Define SLIs, SLOs, alerting rules, and service health indicators for critical services
• Build operational dashboards covering infrastructure health, application performance, user experience, availability, capacity, and service reliability
• Develop leadership-level views that provide meaningful visibility into service performance and operational trends
• Design actionable alerting that enables teams to identify and respond to issues while minimising unnecessary alert noise
• Establish monitoring and operational-readiness requirements for new applications, infrastructure, and platform components
• Use observability data to support capacity planning, performance analysis, reliability improvements, and operational decision-making

Telemetry & Integration

• Define secure telemetry collection and routing across on-premise environments, GCC, cloud platforms, and approved SaaS services
• Work with infrastructure and platform teams to integrate telemetry from servers, network devices, applications, containers, databases, and managed cloud services
• Design observability approaches that account for network boundaries, security zones, data residency, and connectivity constraints
• Define telemetry retention, lifecycle, and cost-management requirements
• Ensure logs, metrics, and traces can be correlated across distributed and hybrid systems

Incident Management & Continuous Improvement

• Support operational teams during incidents by using observability data to identify symptoms, dependencies, and potential root causes
• Participate in incident investigation, root-cause analysis, and post-incident reviews
• Identify recurring operational issues and recommend improvements to instrumentation, alerting, architecture, or operational processes
• Define appropriate SLOs and operational health indicators for observability services
• Participate in operational support and on-call responsibilities for owned services
• Maintain architecture documentation, operational procedures, and runbooks

What are we looking for?

• Minimum 3–5 years of experience in observability engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related discipline
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience implementing or operating observability and monitoring capabilities in production environments
• Demonstrated experience working with metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and incident troubleshooting
• Experience monitoring and supporting production infrastructure, applications, or distributed systems
• Experience working with on-premise and/or cloud environments, with an understanding of hybrid infrastructure
• Experience working with engineering or operations teams to implement instrumentation and improve service reliability
• Treats observability configuration, instrumentation, dashboards, and platform components as version-controlled engineering artefacts
• Uses automation and Infrastructure as Code for repeatable and auditable deployments
• Designs observability for reliability, scalability, security, and operational sustainability
• Understands the difference between collecting telemetry and creating useful operational signals
• Designs monitoring and alerting around service and user impact rather than individual infrastructure metrics alone
• Builds observability into services from the beginning of the engineering lifecycle
• Uses code review, testing, and CI/CD for observability-related changes where appropriate
• Collaborates effectively across application, infrastructure, network, security, data, and platform teams
• Apply MOE and Government data-classification requirements
• Ensure telemetry is collected, transmitted, stored, and accessed according to applicable security and data-residency requirements
• Prevent sensitive information, credentials, and secrets from being unnecessarily captured in telemetry
• Implement appropriate access controls for observability platforms and operational data
• Maintain auditability and traceability of observability configuration and operational activities
• Participate in security, architecture, and operational-readiness reviews
• Experience with Singapore Government platforms such as TechPass, SHIP-HATS, SEED, and GCC
• Familiarity with OC/SN data-classification requirements
• AWS or Azure cloud certifications
• Experience implementing OpenTelemetry at scale
• Experience operating observability platforms across large or distributed environments
• Experience monitoring hybrid infrastructure spanning data centres and cloud environments
• Familiarity with SRE practices such as error budgets, SLO management, incident response, and reliability engineering
• Dynatrace, Elastic, Grafana, Prometheus or equivalent
• OpenTelemetry
• AWS-native observability and monitoring capabilities
• Docker, ECS, CI/CD, SHIP-HATS, Terraform / OpenTofu, Ansible
• Cloud-native storage and telemetry data services
• Kafka, MQ, event-driven telemetry patterns

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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