Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps)

About the role

Assurity Trusted Solutions (ATS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Government Technology Agency (GovTech), provides secure and reliable digital identity services and solutions. It 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.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the DevOps subject matter expert by defining and evolving build and release best practices, ensuring compliance with high standards for availability, resilience, scalability and security.
• Provide DevOps architecture implementation, operation support and documentation.
• Take part in automation initiatives to streamline processes, improve efficiency and reduce hosting costs, and enhance automation delivery.
• Discuss technical matters with existing and potential clients and internal teams, and take part 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-premise 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#, 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.