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 DevSecOps Engineer

This is a 1 - year contract role.

Internal Code: A26320

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.

We are looking for a DevSecOps & Engineering Enablement Engineer to establish and operate a consistent, secure, and reliable process for moving code from development to production for the future SSOE platform.

You will centrally manage the tools, pipelines, standards, and automation that engineering teams use to build, test, review, secure, and deploy their code.

The objective is to ensure that code progressing towards production is not only deployed successfully, but is also functionally working, secure, tested, and of the required quality. Relevant security, testing, and quality gates should be built directly into the delivery process and applied consistently across engineering teams.

You will also drive the responsible use of AI within the software development lifecycle, including AI-assisted code review, testing, security analysis, documentation, and engineering feedback.

What will you do

As a DevSecOps & Engineering Enablement Engineer, you will provide the common engineering capabilities used by application, observability, platform, data, and infrastructure teams across SSOE Common Services.
Engineering teams remain responsible for the software and services they build. You will own and continuously improve the paved road from code to production.
The aim is to provide engineering teams with a common and automated route from development to production, with security, quality, and functional verification built into the process rather than performed separately at the end.

Software Delivery and CI/CD

Own and operate the common CI/CD capabilities used across SSOE Common Services
Design and maintain reusable pipelines for building, testing, validating, and deploying software
Establish consistent processes for promoting changes through development, testing, staging, and production environments
Define the security, quality, testing, and approval gates required at each stage of the software delivery lifecycle
Automate deployment and post-deployment functional verification wherever appropriate
Ensure applications and services are verified to be healthy and functioning as expected before a deployment is considered successful
Support deployments across on-premise, GCC, AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments
Ensure failed deployments can be stopped, retried, recovered, or rolled back safely
Reduce manual deployment activities through repeatable and auditable automation
Continuously improve pipeline reliability, execution time, developer feedback, and deployment success rates

Security and Quality Gates

Build appropriate security and quality checks directly into CI/CD pipelines
Automatically check source code, dependencies, containers, configuration, and Infrastructure as Code for relevant security issues
Detect credentials, secrets, or sensitive information accidentally introduced into source repositories
Integrate automated unit, integration, and other relevant tests into the delivery process
Establish code-quality checks and minimum standards before changes can progress
Define appropriate approval requirements for higher-risk or production changes
Ensure failed mandatory checks prevent changes from progressing until the issue is addressed
Work with engineering and security teams to determine which controls should be mandatory and which should provide advisory feedback
Regularly review gates to ensure they continue to provide useful assurance without introducing unnecessary delivery delays

Functional Verification

Define standard approaches for verifying that applications and services are functioning correctly after deployment
Automate smoke tests, health checks, integration tests, or other appropriate post-deployment validation
Ensure deployment success is based on the actual health and functionality of the deployed service, not simply whether the deployment command completed successfully
Integrate observability and application health information into deployment verification where appropriate
Automatically stop or roll back deployments when critical validation fails
Work with application teams to establish meaningful acceptance criteria for production deployments

AI-Assisted Software Development

Introduce appropriate AI capabilities into code review and software delivery workflows
Use AI to assist engineers in identifying possible defects, security issues, maintainability concerns, and engineering-standard violations
Explore AI-assisted generation and improvement of automated tests
Use AI to assist with technical documentation and explanations of code changes
Explore AI-assisted diagnosis of failed builds, tests, security checks, and deployments
Establish clear rules governing what source code, configuration, and information may be provided to AI services
Ensure engineers remain responsible for reviewing and approving AI-generated code and recommendations
Measure whether AI capabilities improve software quality, security, review time, and engineering productivity

Infrastructure and Operational Automation

Build and maintain reusable Terraform / OpenTofu modules for infrastructure provisioning
Build and maintain Ansible automation for configuration and operational activities
Ensure infrastructure and configuration changes follow the same controlled development-to-production process as application code
Automate infrastructure validation, security checks, approval, deployment, and verification
Automate repeatable operational activities such as provisioning, patching, configuration changes, and account lifecycle management
Ensure automation is testable, repeatable, auditable, observable, and recoverable

Engineering Team Support

Provide engineering teams with reusable pipelines, templates, automation, documentation, and examples
Help teams adopt common development, testing, security, and deployment practices
Reduce the need for individual teams to create and maintain their own CI/CD solutions
Identify manual or repetitive engineering activities that can be automated
Work with engineering teams to understand and remove friction in the software delivery process
Make common engineering activities self-service where practical

What are we looking for

Minimum 3-5 years of experience in DevSecOps, DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, software engineering, or a related role
At least 2 years of hands-on experience designing, building, or operating production CI/CD and deployment automation
Experience implementing automated testing, security, and quality gates within CI/CD pipelines
Experience implementing post-deployment validation, health checks, smoke testing, or similar functional verification
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration automation
Experience building reusable pipelines or automation used by multiple engineering teams
Experience with Git-based development, code review, automated testing, and software releases
Experience deploying applications or infrastructure into on-premise and/or cloud environments
Experience troubleshooting failed builds, tests, deployments, and automation workflows
Experience with AI-assisted software-development tools is useful but not mandatory. Strong DevSecOps fundamentals and an ability to evaluate and adopt new engineering technologies are more important.
GitLab CI/CD, SHIP-HATS, Git and automated software delivery
Automated testing, smoke testing, health checks, integration testing and post-deployment verification
Automated security, code-quality, dependency, secrets, container and infrastructure checks
Terraform / OpenTofu
Ansible, Python, Bash or equivalent
AI-assisted code review, testing, security analysis, documentation and engineering workflows
Infrastructure On-premise, GCC
Docker, Kubernetes / OpenShift or equivalent
Monitoring, logging and health verification of pipelines, deployments and applications

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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Senior DevSecOps Engineer - A26320