Senior Engineer, Security & Observability Platform - A26270

Activate Interactive Pte Ltd (“Activate”) is a leading technology consultancy headquartered in Singapore with a presence in Malaysia and Indonesia. Our clients are empowered with quality, cost-effective, and impactful end-to-end application development, like mobile and web applications, and cloud technology that remove technology roadblocks and increase their business efficiency.

We believe in positively impacting the lives of people around us and the environment we live in through the use of technology. Hence, we are committed to providing a conducive environment for all employees to realize their full potential, who in turn have the opportunity to continuously drive innovation.

We are searching for our next team members to join our growing team.

If you love the idea of being part of a growing company with exciting prospects in mobile and web technologies that create positive impact on people’s lives, then we would love to hear from you.

Please note that this is a 12 months fixed-term contract role.

What will you do?

We are looking for an engineer who will own the end-to-end evaluation, design, and implementation of security and observability solutions for a container-based private cloud platform. This role spans the full lifecycle — from architectural research and tool selection through production deployment and ongoing operations — across unified telemetry, security detection, vulnerability management, supply chain security, and automated incident response.

You will be the technical owner of the platform's observability and security monitoring stack, working across platform engineering, security operations, and SRE teams to deliver a unified telemetryfirst architecture.

Evaluation & Research

Conduct structured evaluation of candidate tools against criteria including license compliance, community governance, vendor independence, and technical fitness

Perform proof-of-concept exercises to validate architectural decisions (e.g. ingestion throughput, storage efficiency, query

latency, operational complexity)

Assess and track governance posture of selected tools; maintain contingency paths for vendor-led dependencies

Engage with upstream open-source communities and foundations to stay current on project maturity and roadmap changes

Design & Architecture

Design unified telemetry pipelines using open standards to serve both SRE observability and security operations from a single data layer

Architect security detection workflows using vendor-neutral detection languages to ensure portability of detection content across backends

Design vulnerability aggregation and management workflows spanning container scanning, software composition analysis, static analysis, infrastructure vulnerability scanning, and software bill of materials generation

Design supply chain security controls including image signing, provenance attestation, and registry policy enforcement

Design exposure path analysis using graph-based tooling to map relationships across compute orchestration, identity, source control, and vulnerability data

Design automated remediation and orchestration workflows integrated with alerting, ChatOps, and ticketing

Produce and maintain architecture decision records documenting design rationale, trade-offs, and change history

Implementation & Operations

Deploy and operate the observability stack: telemetry collection, columnar storage, dashboarding, metrics scraping, alerting, and log routing

Deploy and operate the security monitoring stack: endpoint/hostbased detection, detection rule evaluation, vulnerability aggregation, and infrastructure scanning

Deploy and operate CI pipeline security scanning: container image scanning, dependency scanning, SBOM generation, static analysis, infrastructure-as-code scanning, and secrets detection

Implement image registry security with integrated vulnerability scanning and admission policy enforcement

Implement identity, directory, secrets management, and certificate lifecycle infrastructure

Implement collaboration and incident management tooling (ChatOps, ticketing)

Build and maintain detection rules, alerting rules, and automation playbooks

Operate all components on a container orchestration platform with fleet-wide deployment tooling

Process & Governance

Define and document operational runbooks for each capability area

Establish and maintain vendor-independence contingency entries for all vendor-led tools

Conduct periodic licence and governance re-assessment of selected tools

Collaborate with legal/compliance on copyleft licence reviews before deployment

Define SLOs for telemetry pipeline availability, ingestion latency, and detection coverage

Participate in security incident response using the tooling you build and operate

Required Skills & Experience

5+ years in platform engineering, SRE, or security engineering roles

Strong hands-on experience with at least 3 of the following:

Telemetry collection frameworks and instrumentation standards

Columnar or analytical databases for log/trace/event storage

Metrics scraping and alerting ecosystems

SIEM operations and detection engineering (vendor-neutral detection rule formats preferred)

Search-based log analytics platforms (to understand migration context)

Production experience deploying and operating on Kubernetes or equivalent container orchestration platforms

Experience with container security scanning and software composition analysis tooling

Familiarity with supply chain security concepts: SBOM, image signing, provenance attestation, admission control

Experience with at least one SOAR or automation/orchestration platform

Solid understanding of log collection and routing architectures

Experience writing detection rules or correlation logic for security monitoring

Ability to evaluate open-source projects for governance health, license risk, and production readiness

Strong Linux systems fundamentals

Preferred Skills

Experience with host-based intrusion detection or endpoint detection and response tooling

Experience with graph databases and asset/infrastructure relationship mapping

Familiarity with vulnerability management and aggregation platforms

Experience with identity providers, directory services, and secrets management

Contributions to open-source security or observability projects

Experience operating in government or regulated environments with strict vendor-independence or sovereignty requirements

Familiarity with enterprise Linux and container platform ecosystems

Experience with GitOps workflows for deploying infrastructure services

Static/dynamic application security testing tooling experience

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience

Relevant certifications are a plus but not required (e.g. Kubernetes security, Linux administration, offensive security, or cloud security specializations)

What do we offer in return?

Fun working environment

Employee Wellness Program

To work in Singapore Government Agencies projects

We provide structured development framework and growth opportunities. (We are a “SHRI 2025 Gold winner” in “Learning & Development; Coaching & Mentoring”)

Why you'll love working with us?

If you are looking for opportunities to collaborate with leading industry experts and be surrounded by highly motivated and talented peers, we welcome you to join us. We provide all employees with equal opportunities to grow and develop with us. We believe your success is our success.

Activate Interactive Singapore is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. Activate Interactive Pte Ltd does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, sexuality, national origin, age, disability, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law.

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