DevOps Engineer - A25122

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 DevOps Engineer

Internal Code: A25122

This is a fixed term contract role. The engagement is 12 months

The Core Engineering Product (CEP) Team aims to spearhead the digital transformation of government. CEP operates key platforms within Singapore Government Technology Stacks to allow government agencies to create high quality and reliable government services for citizens using commercial cloud services. CEP Engineering Team develops the required platform automations, processes, toolchain and policies/best practices to enable government agencies to develop, deploy and operate government services on the cloud in an agile yet secure manner.

If you are looking for opportunities to collaborate with leading industry experts and be surrounded by highly motivated peers, we welcome you to join CEP. These are newly created positions with many opportunities to make a difference! The role will have various opportunities to work with CEP customers to architect and implement OpenStack in Singapore Government.

• Participate in an in-house engineering squad for engineering excellence in design, development and operational of various engineering productivity products.
• Practice and lead other development communities within Singapore Government.
• Opportunities to learn and implement large scale product design and automation in Government Context
• Responsible to design, develop and maintain the engineering products and tooling.
• Be the guiding subject matter of expert for Devops methodologies, contribute to Automation, Availability, Scalability and Resiliency to the team and the development communities within government.
• This is a senior engineering role has focus in designing, deploying, and operating Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on OpenStack in our on-premises data centers. You’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring our container platforms are resilient, secure, and highly automated to support mission-critical workloads.

What will you do?

Platform Design & Deployment

• Work closely with CEP customer on technical requirement gathering and
• Architect and implement production-grade OpenShift clusters on OpenStack, including control plane, compute nodes, storage integrations, and networking.
• Adapt typical OpenShift and OpenStack design into government security and governance compliance construct.
• Provide deep technical advisory and design decision rationales to internal and external stakeholders.
• Define and automate infrastructure provisioning (IaaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Red Hat Ansible Tower.

Operational Excellence

• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging pipelines (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK/ELK, Alertmanager).
• Lead capacity planning, performance tuning, and day-to-day cluster health management.
• Implement robust backup, disaster recovery, and upgrade strategies.

Automation & CI/CD

• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Argo CD) for platform updates, operator deployments, and application rollouts.
• Author scripts and operators to automate routine maintenance, scaling, and self-healing tasks.

Security & Compliance

• Enforce security best practices: RBAC, network policies, SELinux, secrets management (Vault, OpenShift Secrets).
• Collaborate with security teams to implement vulnerability scanning, baseline hardening, and compliance audits.

Collaboration & Documentation

• Partner with development, QA, and networking teams to onboard new applications and troubleshoot platform issues.
• Produce runbooks, run-charts, design docs, and knowledge-base articles.

What are we looking for?

• 5+ years in Linux system administration (RHEL) and virtualization (KVM/QEMU). Experience in VMware would be added advantage.
• 3+ years deploying and operating OpenShift in production environments.
• Strong understanding about network and storage virtualisation.
• Hands-on experience with OpenStack (Ansible-based or OpenStack SDK): Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, Glance.
• Understand about basic infrastructure security and policies in government will be added advantage.

Technical Skills

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent.
• Physical, virtual and container-based networking & storage: Calico, OVN, Ceph, Portworx.
• Monitoring/Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stacks.
• Scripting: Bash, Python, or Go.
• Networking fundamentals: VLANs, SDN, L3 routing, load balancing (HAProxy, OVN LB).

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting aptitude in complex distributed systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; able to produce clear operational documentation.
• Proactive, self-driven, and comfortable leading cross-functional initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration or OpenStack (RHOS-CL310).
• Familiar with VMware stacks
• Experience with GitOps tools (Argo CD, Flux).
• Familiarity with service mesh (Istio, OpenShift Service Mesh) and serverless frameworks.
• Exposure to hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud OpenShift deployments.

What do we offer in return?

• Fun working environment
• Employee Wellness Program

Does it sound like something you are interested in exploring further? Please be in touch with our team for an initial chat at [email protected]

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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