DevOps Engineer - A26318

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 realise 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.

Co-Development Business Unit  is hiring for DevOps Engineer

You will work in Singapore Government Agencies

Internal Code: A26318

This is a fixed term contract role. The engagement is 1 year.

The Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) is Singapore’s lead ministry for social and family policies, working to build a caring and inclusive society where individuals and families can thrive. Its work spans family services, social assistance, early childhood, disability support and community development, delivered through programmes and a network of Social Service Offices, Family Service Centres and community partners.

GovTech’s Government Digital Transformation (GDT) team is forward deployed to support MSF, working closely with teams across the ministry to build, modernise and operate digital services. Our engineers work on different initiatives across the MSF family, including Case Central, ComLink+, the Social Service Coordination Centre, Early Childhood programmes and Sector Futures & Technology.

We are hiring across Software Engineering (SWE), Quality Engineering / QA and DevOps. Depending on the team and project, you may specialise in one area or work across multiple parts of the engineering lifecycle.

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.

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.

The exact work will depend on the MSF division, product and team you join. 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 MSF 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.

For example, one current initiative involves building a centralised platform intended to reduce data silos across government agencies, schools, healthcare institutions and social-service organisations. The engineering work spans data pipelines, backend services, React interfaces and cloud infrastructure.

Other parts of the MSF environment involve modernisation alongside legacy systems and a diverse technology landscape including Salesforce, OutSystems, Appian, Pega, Kotlin, Java and GCC/AWS.

What are we looking for?

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

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