AnsibleAWSAzureBashChefDNSDockerHyper-VKubernetesNutanixPowerShellPuppetPythonRed Hat LinuxTCP/IPTerraformVMwareWindows Server
Preferred qualifications
CertificationsVMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Study levelAssociate degree
Original posting
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.
This is a fixed-term contract role until 31st Dec 2027. Working location will be at Changi Airport T2.
What will you do?
The Platform Operations Engineer supports on-premises and hybrid infrastructure platforms that underpin mission-critical systems. This role focuses on platform reliability, operational stability, and infrastructure improvement in a government or regulated environment.
The engineer will work with an existing internal team and L1 vendor engineers to oversee day-to-day operational support, ensure timely resolution of incidents and issues, and provide deeper technical analysis when required.
The role also includes technical and security governance responsibilities, including reviewing technical changes, supporting service request (SR) review and approval, and ensuring infrastructure changes and operations align with operational, security, and architectural requirements.
This role supports a multi-year technology refresh programme while maintaining stable day-to-day operations with minimal downtime. It also includes technical project coordination responsibilities such as planning, tracking dependencies, managing risks and issues, and driving follow-up across internal teams and vendors to support the agency’s longer-term transition towards cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
Work with L1 vendor engineers and the internal team to oversee day-to-day operational support and maintenance of critical infrastructure platforms across on-premises and hybrid environments.
Provide technical oversight across compute, storage, virtualization, operating systems, backup, disaster recovery (DR), high availability (HA), and related infrastructure platforms.
Lead incident management for complex issues, including technical deep dives, root cause analysis, recovery planning, and timely resolution follow-up.
Manage and coordinate vendor activities to ensure operational tasks, incidents, service requests, and technical deliverables are completed effectively and within expected timelines.
Review and assess technical changes, service requests (SRs), implementation plans, and recovery approaches to ensure they are practical, supportable, and aligned with operational, security, and architectural requirements.
Support technical and security governance activities, including change review, risk awareness, compliance alignment, and operational readiness checks.
Support infrastructure modernization and the multi-year technology refresh programme while maintaining stable day-to-day operations with minimal downtime.
Plan, coordinate, and track technical infrastructure activities across internal teams and vendors for refresh, upgrade, migration, and other technical project initiatives.
Track project risks, issues, dependencies, action items, and status updates to ensure milestones, operational commitments, and implementation readiness are met.
Work with application, network, security, and vendor teams to resolve platform-related issues and maintain runbooks, SOPs, governance artefacts, and supporting documentation.
Requirements
What are we looking for?
At least 5 years of experience in infrastructure or platform operations
Experience supporting production or mission-critical environments
Strong technical understanding of infrastructure operations across virtualisation, operating systems, storage, backup, networking, and related platforms
Experience working with vendor-supported operating models and managing external support teams
Able to participate in technical troubleshooting, issue deep dives, and problem resolution for complex incidents
Experience supporting technical governance, security governance, change review, or service request approval processes is preferred
Experience supporting technical project delivery, including coordination, issue and risk tracking, dependency management, and stakeholder follow-up
At least 2 years of experience in government or public sector settings
Good to have data centre operations experience
Strong communication and coordination skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Technical Requirements (MUST)
xperience with infrastructure platforms such as VMware, Hyper-V, or Nutanix
Experience with Red Hat Linux and/or Windows Server environments
Familiarity with enterprise storage, backup, HA, and DR solutions
Strong understanding of monitoring, observability, logging, and alerting practices
Solid understanding of networking fundamentals such as TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancing, and segmentation
Familiarity with hybrid infrastructure environments, including AWS or Azure
Technical Requirements (Preferred)
Experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Terraform
Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration platforms such as Docker or Kubernetes
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automated provisioning and configuration
Qualifications and Certifications
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
Preferred to have:
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Microsoft Certified: Windows Server
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
ITIL v4 Foundation
AWS or Azure Associate-level (or equivalent) cloud certifications
Benefits
What do we offer in return?
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
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.
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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