📋 Job Overview
Activate Interactive Pte Ltd (“Activate”) is a leading technology consultancy headquartered in Singapore with a presence in Malaysia and Indonesia. We are searching for our next team members to join our growing team. The Co-Development Business Unit is hiring for Platform Engineer (Full Stack Engineer) to work in Singapore Government Agencies. This is a fixed term contract role. The engagement is 1 year.
🏢 About Activate Interactive
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.
🎯 The Role
You will work in Singapore Government Agencies on CStack and Airbase, Whole-of-Government runtime platforms that provide secure, multi-tenant Kubernetes and AWS foundations for application teams across 100+ agencies. The platform is expected to support many services and applications, including critical systems where availability, recoverability, and operational discipline matter. We are building an internal developer platform that helps teams deploy, operate, and scale applications with minimal platform-specific knowledge, while inheriting secure defaults, observability, reliability, and compliance guardrails.
✅ Key Responsibilities
- Design developer-facing abstractions over AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps, observability, and security controls.
- Develop platform services, APIs, CLIs, infrastructure automation, and internal tooling that make complex infrastructure easier and safer to consume.
- Define stable interfaces, versioning approaches, error handling, testing strategies, and documentation for platform components.
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows to accelerate delivery while preserving engineering quality.
- Contribute to a custom internal developer portal built with TypeScript and Next.js.
- Build self-service workflows for provisioning, deployment, environment management, observability, and operational readiness.
- Use delivery and developer experience signals to understand friction and prioritize targeted platform improvements.
- Reduce the need for tenant teams to understand Kubernetes, CI/CD, or cloud internals before they can ship safely.
- Help design the platform capabilities needed for human and agent-driven development workflows to be safe, productive, and auditable.
- Build or integrate isolated development sandboxes, devboxes, or ephemeral workspaces for human and agent-driven workflows.
- Design controls for identity, authorization, network access, secrets handling, audit logs, work space life cycle, and data boundaries.
- Integrate remote environments with source control, CI/CD, test execution, artifact generation, and human review flows.
- Improve setup speed, reproducibility, dependency caching, observability, and failure recovery for unattended or long-running tasks.
- Design reusable GitLab CI/CD and ArgoCD workflows for safe, auditable, repeatable deployments.
- Design and implement Terraform modules and platform interfaces that address real infrastructure use cases while encoding standards and guardrails.
- Build observability defaults using Elastic Cloud and Prometheus, including dashboards, alerts, SLOs, and the Four Golden Signals.
- Improve backup, restore, rollback, incident response, and recovery patterns through better software, automation, defaults, and documentation.
- Work with tenant teams to understand friction in their deployment and operations workflows.
- Produce clear documentation, examples, runbooks, and onboarding material.
- Gather feedback from real usage and improve platform capabilities iteratively
📌 Required Qualifications
- Strong programming ability in Go or Python, with experience writing production-grade services, tooling, or automation.
- Strong TypeScript, React, or Next.js capability, with the ability to contribute meaningfully to a custom internal developer portal and related APIs.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: API design, modularity, testing, error handling, maintainability, versioning, and backward compatibility.
- Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and ArgoCD.
- Familiarity with observability and production operations, including logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting, incidents, and recovery.
- Ability to use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, including writing clear specs, validating generated changes, maintaining tests, and creating reusable prompts, skills, or workflows where appropriate.
- Ability to communicate clearly with application teams, platform engineers, security stakeholders, and internal product owners.
- Experience building internal developer platforms, self-service portals, or PaaS-style workflows.
- Experience with secure remote development environments, cloud workspaces, agent sandboxes, or AI-assisted software engineering workflows.
- Familiarity with secrets management, workload identity, network policy, supply chain security, and auditability.
⭐ Desirable Experience
- Experience with spec-driven development, AI coding assistants, automated code review, test generation, or agentic development workflows.
- Experience measuring developer productivity or platform adoption using DORA, SPACE, DX Core 4, surveys, telemetry, or workflow analytics.
- Experience with progressive delivery, SLOs, reliability engineering, database backup and restore, or disaster recovery testing
🎁 Benefits
Competitive Compensation: Market competitive salary and variable performance bonus aligned to your skills, impact, and contribution.
Benefits: Outpatient medical, specialist medical coverage and generous customisable flexi benefits, or flexi allowance; life and health insurance, thoughtful perks like special occasions “red packet” and CNY goodies, etc.
Employee Wellness: Support for your physical, mental, and overall well-being through year-round initiatives.
Growth & Development: Learning programmes, certification support, and a dedicated staff development budget. (We are a “SHRI 2025 Gold winner” in “Learning & Development; Coaching & Mentoring”)
Career Progression: Structured career pathways that enable you to grow along a technical/domain expert track or a leadership track.
Competency Framework: A structured and practical framework to support you to develop, perform, and succeed.
Flexible Work Arrangement: Staff may choose to work flexi-place, flexi-time, and flexi-load based on existing framework
🛂 Visa & Eligibility
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.
