DevOps/Platform Engineer

What We Are Looking For

Technology is only one part of what we assess. We are looking for engineers with strong fundamentals who can apply them pragmatically to real-world problems.

Mindset

We value people who:

Take ownership - comfortable taking a problem from requirements and design through implementation, testing, deployment and production support.

Solve problems, not just tasks - investigate root causes, question assumptions and understand the problem behind the request.

Think in trade-offs - balance delivery timelines, security, maintainability, cost, operational complexity and long-term sustainability.

Work well with ambiguity - able to turn business problems and high-level requirements into practical technical solutions.

Care about engineering quality - testing, maintainability, documentation, observability and security are part of engineering, not afterthoughts.

Are pragmatic - able to deliver within real-world constraints including legacy systems, security requirements, compliance and existing organisational processes.

Communicate clearly - explain technical decisions and their implications to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Learn and share - document what you learn, share knowledge and build reusable patterns that can benefit other teams.

Take responsibility for what you build - some of our systems handle sensitive information and support vulnerable members of society, so sound judgement and ethical responsibility matter.

For more experienced candidates, we also look for the ability to operate independently, make pragmatic technical decisions and create reusable capabilities that benefit teams beyond the immediate project.

Technical Capabilities

You do not need to be an expert in every technology listed below. The exact requirements vary depending on the team and role. We value strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to learn.

DevOps / Platform Engineering

For candidates focusing on DevOps, Platform or Infrastructure Engineering, relevant experience may include:

AWS and cloud infrastructure

Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) exposure

Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform or OpenTofu

CI/CD pipelines, particularly GitLab

Docker and containerisation

ECS and/or Kubernetes / EKS

Deployment automation

Cloud networking

Observability and monitoring

Production operations and incident response

Authentication, authorisation, encryption and audit logging

Security controls and compliance requirements

Supporting reliable and highly available production systems

Our software engineering environment is intentionally close to infrastructure. Existing requirements include AWS, Terraform/OpenTofu, GitLab pipelines, ECS/Kubernetes and production security controls.

We therefore value engineers who understand both the application and the platform it runs on, even when their primary specialisation is SWE, QA or DevOps.

Bonus / Nice-to-Have

Experience in the following areas would be advantageous:

Strong hands-on Java / Kotlin experience

Python, including FastAPI, Django or Pandas

TypeScript and React / Next.js

AWS EC2, ECS and EKS

Kubernetes

Terraform / OpenTofu / CloudFormation

GitLab CI/CD

Data engineering and ETL

Event-driven architectures

Salesforce, OutSystems, Appian, Pega or Microsoft Dynamics

Databricks

Platform or legacy-system modernisation

Building reusable engineering platforms or frameworks

Government or highly regulated environments

GCC, Singpass / Corppass or SGTS

Security, privacy and compliance engineering

Experience working with sensitive or high-impact systems

Public-sector technology experience is useful but not mandatory. Candidates from other complex or regulated environments may have equally relevant experience. GCC, Singpass/Corppass, SGTS and IaC experience are specifically identified as useful additional experience in the role requirements.

What You May Work On

The exact work will depend on the product and team you are selected for. You could be:

Building a new citizen- or officer-facing digital product

Developing APIs and backend services

Building modern frontend applications

Developing secure data ingestion and ETL pipelines

Integrating systems across government agencies and partners

Modernising existing Java or platform-based applications

Building cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines

Improving automated testing and engineering quality

Establishing observability and operational practices

Implementing security and compliance controls

Creating reusable engineering capabilities that can be adopted by multiple teams

The environment includes both greenfield and brownfield work. You may work on a small, high-impact engineering team building a new platform end-to-end, or work within a larger modernisation initiative involving existing systems and technologies.