Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps)

About the role

Assurity Trusted Solutions (ATS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Government Technology Agency (GovTech), is looking for a Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps) to join its Engineering team. The position is offered as a contract until 30 November 2028, subject to extension based on performance. The role centres on being the DevOps subject matter expert, defining build and release best practices and delivering automation and infrastructure for high availability, resiliency, scalability and security.

Key responsibilities

• Define and evolve build and release best practices and provide DevOps architecture, operation support and documentation.
• Take part in automation initiatives to streamline processes, improve efficiency and reduce hosting costs, and enhance automation delivery.
• Take part in technical discussions with existing and potential clients and internal teams, and in R&D for complex on-premises solutions.
• Mentor and guide junior team members while fostering continuous learning.
• Develop, operate and manage CI/CD pipelines and centrally hosted components, including system monitoring tools for performance, utilization and health.
• Troubleshoot and solve problems across platform and application domains.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner, Platform Team, Solution Architects and developers to design scalable features for higher developer productivity, environment monitoring, self-healing and autonomous delivery.
• Define standards and processes for monitoring DevSecOps services.

Required profile

• Proven experience as a DevOps engineer designing and implementing complex IaaS and DevOps solutions.
• 5 years of experience in on-premises and cloud platforms, mainly in automating infrastructure configuration and management (on-prem preferred).
• Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly across audiences and levels, and to work independently within deadlines.
• Experience leading infrastructure procurement and implementation in the government sector is an added advantage.

Required skills

• CI/CD, Agile, and knowledge of containerisation and virtualisation such as Kubernetes.
• GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, JFrog, XWiki and similar tools.
• At least one of Python, PowerShell, Ruby, C# or JavaScript.
• Infrastructure as Code, with a strong focus on Ansible.
• Monitoring tools, patch maintenance, regression testing and security incident response.
• Ability to review and validate software code.

What we offer

• Remuneration commensurate with qualifications and experience.
• Benefits for contract staff equal to those of permanent employees.
• A learning culture promoted by the employer.