DevOps Engineer (Fixed-Term, 1 Year)

About the role

Activate Interactive, a technology consultancy in Singapore, is hiring a DevOps Engineer for its Co-Development Business Unit, working with Singapore Government Agencies. The role is a fixed-term contract of 1 year within the Government Digital Products (GDP) team, which builds core digital platforms for government agencies. It suits a software engineer with some cloud experience who wants to move into platform and DevOps work.

Key responsibilities

• Build and grow the platform: design secure, reliable and scalable systems, and create reusable templates, paved paths and modules so new products can be onboarded quickly and safely.
• Migrate existing products onto the platform as it matures, working with tech leads and engineers.
• Write infrastructure, pipelines and monitoring as code, version-controlled and peer-reviewed, and automate routine operations such as backup, recovery and patching.
• Support delivery and operations: CI/CD, deployment practices, multi-environment management, monitoring, alerting and incident management.
• Help shape reliability practices such as observability, sensible alerting and service-level goals.

Required profile

• 3-5 years of relevant experience, including hands-on cloud infrastructure work (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud).
• Comfortable writing code, focused on infrastructure as code, pipelines, configuration and monitoring rather than application features.
• An application development background is a plus but not required.
• Familiarity with Agile practices (e.g. Scrum, XP) and with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform).
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure and networking security, and of common cloud architecture and network traffic flow.
• A scripting or programming language (e.g. Go, Python or Bash) to support automation.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development tooling.

Required skills

• Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform)
• CI/CD and Git
• Cloud services (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud)
• Programming: TypeScript, React, Node.js, NestJS, Redis, PostgreSQL, Prisma (bonus)

What we offer

• Competitive market salary and a variable performance bonus.
• Medical coverage, life and health insurance, and flexible benefits or allowance.
• Wellness support, learning programmes, certification support and a staff development budget.
• Structured career pathways and a competency framework.
• Flexible work arrangements (flexi-place, flexi-time, flexi-load).