DevOps Lead

Join DevOps; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Join DevOps is seeking a talented DevOps Lead to head a team responsible for automated deployments, reliability and scalable processes across departments. You will collaborate with Development and Product teams to ensure smooth delivery, maintenance planning and quick resolution of build issues.

The role emphasizes day-to-day system monitoring, CI/CD pipeline development, and automation using Kubernetes and other modern tooling. Strong mentoring and communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Strong experience in DevOps practices and automation.
• Experience with cloud platforms AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Proven ability to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on with container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Experience with monitoring and logging tooling (Grafana/Prometheus).
• Excellent communication and mentorship abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead DevOps team to implement automated deployments.
• Day-to-day monitoring, backup, deployment and maintenance of systems.
• Develop/build/maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• Write scripts for service monitoring and health checks.
• Automate and build scalable environments using Kubernetes.
• Automate security hardening in testing, deployment and production setups.
• Mentor juniors on setup, deployment and maintenance.
• Provide operating guidance, training and troubleshooting documents.
• Provide technical insights for design and implementation of solutions.
• Promote DevOps culture and drive end-to-end release improvements.
• Continuously identify new tools to improve production processes.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Automation expertise

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting proficiency

Problem solving

Team mentoring

Strong communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

Nexus

Maven

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

Ansible AWX/Tower

Chef

Puppet

CloudFormation

Grafana

Prometheus

Python

PowerShell

Job description

We have a great opportunity for a talented and self-motivated DevOps Lead to join our team. You will lead the team in which together will be responsible for automated deployments, ensuring highest reliability and scalability processes for serving the needs of different departments.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with various teams that includes Development and Products to ensure successful delivery, maintenance planning and correction of build errors.
• Day-to-day monitoring, backup, deployment and maintenance of systems
• Develop/build/maintain continuous integration/deployment pipelines and automated testing to support high quality software build in a continuous build environment
• Writing scripts/programs for service monitoring and health check of systems
• Automate and build up scalable systems/environment using latest technologies (e.g. Kubernetes)
• Automate security hardening in testing, deployment and production setup based on industrial best practices
• Mentoring juniors on setup, deployment and maintenance
• Provide operating guidance, training and troubleshooting documents to internal and external parties.
• Provide technical insights for the design and implementation of solutions.
• Promote a Dev Ops culture through building relationships with Development & Operations and driving enhancements to the end-to-end release process (workstation to production).
• Continuously identifying new tools, ideas to improve whole process of Production systems. Strong self learning ability, motivation to work on new Technologies.
• Any other duties assigned by the Head of Department

Requirements

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 5 years of relevant experience in the below areas:

• Ability to troubleshoot problems, and solve abstract issues during system administration.
• Experience in documentation for manuals, guides, troubleshooting and system design.
• Experience with load balancing setup for TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, routings.
• Sound delivery experience of DevOps solutions on cloud computing platforms such as AWS/GCP/Azure (e.g. AWS: EC2, RDS, ELB, EFS, ELK, ElasticCache, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS, MSK)
• Experienced with building and setting up high velocity and reliable CI/CD pipeline using tools/platforms such as Jenkins, Gitlab, Nexus, Maven
• Knowledge on Quality Tools and Management tools like Sonar and Jira
• Proficiency with containers and cloud orchestration tools such as Docker, Kubernetes
• Proficiency with systems that support Infrastructure-as-Code ideals, such as Ansible AWX/Tower, Chef, Terraform, Puppet, Cloudformation and so on
• Familiarity with deployment of application performance monitoring (APM)
• Hands on in depth experience in some of the following technologies:
• Vault/Grafana/Prometheus/Keycloak
• Ability to automate repeatable processes via scripts (e.g. via Terraform, bash, Powershell, Ruby, JS, Python, Groovy, etc.)
• Excellent experience with system administration (Ubuntu/Debian)
• Experienced with the latest DevSecOps orchestration tools, designing DevSecOps environment and Docker containers which are application-centric rather than component-specific
• AWS certification will be an added advantage
• Good to have experience with micro-services and event-driven systems (e.g. Kafka)
• Recognise, troubleshoot and resolve and system issues without supervision.
• Self-starter with the ability to appropriately priorities and plan complex work in a rapidly changing environment.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skill, interpersonal skills and team player