Cloud and DevOps (AWS), Senior Engineer

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.

What will you do?

The Cloud and DevOps Engineer is responsible for building, automating and maintaining the cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines that support the delivery of web and mobile applications. Working closely with development teams, Tech Leads and Project Managers, the role provisions and manages AWS environments, streamlines build/test/release workflows, enforces infrastructure security and compliance standards, and drives automation and continuous improvement across deployment, monitoring and incident response. The role ensures that solutions are deployed reliably, securely and efficiently, meeting client and public-sector compliance expectations.

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline) for automated build, test and deployment across environments.
• Provision, configure and manage AWS cloud infrastructure (e.g., EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudFront) using infrastructure-as-code.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or Ansible.
• Manage containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/ECS) for application workloads.
• Set up and maintain monitoring, logging and alerting (e.g., CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK) to ensure system availability and performance.
• Implement and enforce security best practices across infrastructure and pipelines, including IAM policies, secrets management, patching and vulnerability remediation.
• Support release management activities, coordinating deployments and rollbacks with development and project teams.
• Manage and optimize cloud costs, environments and resource utilization.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment and environment issues across development, staging and production.
• Document infrastructure architecture, pipeline configurations, operational procedures and runbooks.
• Support compliance with public-sector security requirements and participate in security audits and reviews.

Requirements

Domain Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (compute, storage, networking, IAM, databases).
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or AWS CodePipeline).
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes or Amazon ECS/EKS).
• Scripting proficiency (Bash, Python or similar) for automation.
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack).
• Solid understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing and security concepts in cloud environments.
• Proficient with version control systems, particularly Git and branching strategies.
• Familiarity with deploying and supporting web and mobile application stacks (e.g., Node.js, ReactJS) is advantageous.

Education and Certification

Compulsory (Must-have):

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or a related discipline.

Desirable (Good-to-have):

• AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer).
• Certification in Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD) or Terraform.

Role requirements

• 3-5 years of hands-on DevOps / cloud infrastructure experience, primarily on AWS.
• Proven experience implementing and operating CI/CD pipelines in a team delivery environment.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and container-based deployments.

Benefits

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.

Does it sound like something you are interested in exploring further? Please be in touch with our team for an initial chat at [email protected]

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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