Senior / Software Engineer - Developer Productivity Platforms

About the role

GovTech, Singapore's lead agency for Smart Nation and public sector digital transformation, is hiring a Senior / Software Engineer to design, build and operate a Whole-of-Government developer productivity platform. You will work across CI/CD tools (GitLab), cloud (AWS), orchestration (Kubernetes EKS) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) to deliver a secure, scalable and developer-friendly platform.

Key responsibilities

• Architect, implement and operate platform components across GitLab, AWS, Kubernetes EKS and Terraform, improving performance, cost efficiency and operational robustness.
• Design workflows, tooling and paved paths so tenants can deploy and run applications quickly, safely and consistently, and champion automation and self-service.
• Eliminate toil by automating repetitive tasks and bottlenecks through CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and controllers/operators.
• Implement observability (logs, metrics, traces, alerts) and automate health checks, anomaly detection and self-healing.
• Take part in on-call rotations, incident response and post-incident reviews to reduce MTTR.
• Embed security through secure defaults, policy enforcement, vulnerability scanning and AWS/K8s best practices, and support regulatory compliance.
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks, define and improve KPIs such as MTTR, error rates, SLO compliance and cost efficiency.
• Advise tenants on containerisation, CI/CD and cloud-native deployment, and share knowledge through documentation, runbooks and architecture diagrams.

Required profile

• Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Proven DevOps / Platform / SRE experience in cloud-native environments.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, able to write production-grade code in Go, TypeScript or Python.
• Good understanding of web applications (Go, Python, React/NextJS) and of networking, security and storage in AWS and Kubernetes.
• Clear communicator, calm under pressure, customer-focused; leadership or mentoring experience is a plus.

Required skills

• AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), container orchestration and cloud operations.
• Terraform (preferred) and GitOps/CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI/CD and ArgoCD.
• Kubernetes tooling: Helm, Kustomize, kubectl.
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Elastic Stack and SLO design.
• Database management (e.g. PostgreSQL) including backups, snapshots and recovery testing.
• Preferred: CKA or CKAD, Kubernetes operators in Go, service mesh, chaos engineering.