Job Title: Software Engineer, National Cybersecurity Research & Development Lab

Posting Start Date: 22/04/2026

About Us

The National Cybersecurity R&D Lab (NCL) is established in 2015 and funded under the National Cybersecurity R&D (NCR) Programme. Our aim is to provide support to the Singapore cybersecurity R&D community in terms of their research experimentation and testing requirements. NCL offers computing resources and controlled experimentation environments to facilitate collaborative research among academia, government bodies, and industry. The infrastructure comprises a cluster of 300+ nodes with diverse provisioning mechanisms, security data, and security services.

National Cybersecurity R&D Laboratories (NCL) is hiring a Software Engineer to develop new applications and maintain existing ones for the labs. Successful candidates will be offered a renewable 2 years contract.

Job Description

CTF Challenges Development: Design and develop challenge and question for intermediate level CTF event.
Scenario Development: Design and develop pentesting and IoT scenarios for intermediate to professional learners.
Tool Improvement: Enhance tools and scripts for automated provisioning using Ansible, Vagrant, and Linux Bash.
IT-OT System Development: Assist in the development of IT-OT systems and their digital equivalents.
Documentation: Produce technical and user documentation for all related changes.
Application Development: Develop new technical applications and maintain existing ones.
Cloud Infrastructure Setup: Set up open-source cloud infrastructure using tools such as OpenStack, VCenter, ESXi, or VirtualBox.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Deploy infrastructure as code using Vagrant and Terraform.
Environment Provisioning: Provision environments using Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Bash scripting.
Web Services Development: Develop web front end (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and backend (Java and Python) service for integration with cloud service APIs or CLI.
Scripting and Debugging: Use Java, Python and Bash for debugging and simple scripting purposes.
CI/CD Environment Setup: Set up CI/CD DevOps environments, e.g., Bamboo, Jenkins.
IT Security: Ensure proper IT security implementation and protection of services.

Qualifications

Experience: 1+ years of relevant work experience is advantageous. Candidates with no experience or Diploma holders (Software Development) are welcome to apply
Education: Candidates with no experience or diploma holders in Software Development are welcome to apply.
Virtualization: Experience with virtualization technologies (VMWare, VirtualBox, KVM, etc.).
Interest in Cybersecurity: A keen interest in cybersecurity, with a passion for learning technical details and experimenting with systems and technologies (e.g., Hack the Box, VulnHub).

Preferred Skills

Experience of participating intermediate level CTF event.
Experience of application GUI design and development.
Familiarity with setting up and managing open-source cloud infrastructure.
Experience with deploying infrastructure as code (IaC) and provisioning environments.
Ability to develop and integrate web services with cloud services.

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

More Information

Location: Kent Ridge Campus

Organization: School of Computing

Department : Department of Computer Science