DevOps & Automation Engineer

About the role

NCS, a technology services firm operating across the Asia Pacific region, is hiring a DevOps & Automation Engineer in Singapore. The engineer develops automation playbooks, runbooks and cookbooks to streamline service delivery and operations, implements automation use cases in production environments and manages the automation platform to keep it highly available.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain automation playbooks using Ansible, Python, Terraform, Chef, Groovy, PowerShell and JavaScript, and write automated tests for them before production deployment.
• Manage automation development initiatives and ensure process efficiency, automation stability and system reliability.
• Integrate automation solutions with external tools such as ITSM platforms and ensure compliance with ITSM integration.
• Apply Infrastructure-as-Code principles, including code control and versioning best practices.

Required profile

• Degree or diploma in Computer Science, IT or a related field.
• 1-2 years of hands-on experience developing IaC code for automation in service delivery and operations.
• Proven experience setting up and managing Ansible, Terraform and Chef platforms, and deploying CI/CD pipelines.
• End-to-end implementation of IaC in managed services projects.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail and a proactive approach to process improvement.

Required skills

• Linux/Unix/Windows administration.
• Configuration management with Puppet, Chef or Ansible.
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, MS SQL and MySQL.
• Source code control, versioning and automation tool integration.
• Some knowledge of RPA playbook development (preferred).
• DevOps or automation certifications preferred.