Senior DevOps Engineer, Video Intelligence

NCS Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NCS seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the Azure platform and Kubernetes workloads, ensuring secure, reliable delivery. You will automate everything-as-code and partner with product teams to enable fast, secure deployments.

Responsibilities include building Azure Landing Zones, private AKS clusters, SBOM and image scanning, GitOps with Argo CD/Flux, and strong observability and incident response across the cloud stack.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering with Azure experience.
• 3+ years delivering Azure Landing Zones or equivalent foundations.
• Strong in GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps and reusable workflows.
• Hands-on with container security policies and image signing.
• Network security in Kubernetes with default-deny and TLS.
• Experience with observability, SLOs, and incident response.
• Infra as code and GitOps tooling at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own security, reliability, and delivery of Azure platform and Kubernetes workloads.
• Automate infrastructure and deployments with a GitOps approach.
• Design and operate private AKS clusters with policy enforcement.
• Implement SBOM, image scanning, and provenance verification.
• Lead incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvements.

Skills

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD automation

Security by design

Cloud platforms

Collaboration with product teams

Incident response

Kubernetes in production

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Bicep

cosign

OPA/Gatekeeper

Kyverno

Nessus

Job description

Date: 2026-10-01

Company: NCS

Job Requisition ID: 168395

Company Description

NCS is a leading AI Tech Services company. With a 15,000-strong team across the Asia Pacific, NCS scales its platforms and capabilities to provide clients with greater agility and AI expertise across a range of Industries. Embracing a strong ecosystem of global partners, NCS transforms technology services delivery combining AI with digital resilience to drive real business impact. NCS is a subsidiary of the Singtel Group.

Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the security, reliability, and delivery of our Azure platform and Kubernetes workloads. You’ll be the hands-on technical engineer for secure-by-default infrastructure—automating everything-as-code, and partnering with product teams to do deployment and enabling fast shipping of codes without trading off security or resilience.

• Build and evolve Azure Landing Zones, Management Group hierarchy, subscription vending, and policy-as-code guardrails using Azure Policy or equivalent tools.
• Design & operate private AKS clusters (Azure CNI/Calico etc), implement Pod Security Standards, network policies (Calico/Cilium), workload identity (Entra OIDC/Workload Identity), and secure ingress/egress.

CI/CD & supply chain:

• Standardize pipelines in GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps; enforce SBOM, image scanning, cosign signing/verification, provenance (SLSA-aligned) and immutable deploys (GitOps with Argo CD/Flux).

Identity & secrets:

• Implement Entra ID RBAC & PIM, Managed Identities, Key Vault / Secrets Store CSI, and secret rotation practices.

Observability & IR:

• Establish Azure Monitor / Log Analytics baselines, tracing, SLOs, and actionable alerts; integrate with Microsoft Sentinel; lead incident response and postmortems.

Cloud security posture:

• Drive Defender for Cloud coverage, vulnerability management (containers, hosts, code), and automated remediation.

Networking & data protection:

• Hub-and-spoke or vWAN, Private Link/Endpoints, Private DNS, Firewall/NAT Gateway egress control; encryption at rest & in transit, KMS integrations.

Resilience & DR:

• Backups (RSV/Velero), multi-region patterns, chaos exercises, capacity planning; codify DR runbooks and perform tests.

FinOps & compliance:

• Implement tagging/budgets, right-sizing, Reservations/Savings Plans; map controls to CIS/NIST/ISO and produce audit evidence from pipelines.

Coaching & enablement:

• Pair with product teams, review designs/PRs, write reference modules/templates, and uplift platform literacy across the org.

Security Hardening:

• Enable hardening for respective components, including but not limited to OS hardening, Application Hardening, Azure Services hardening.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering with 3+ years on Azure and 2+ years operating Kubernetes in production.
• Proven delivery of Azure Landing Zones or equivalent enterprise Azure foundations, expressed asTerraform or Bicep modules.
• Strong with GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps, artifacts, environments, approvals, reusable workflows.
• Hands-on with container runtime security & policy: OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno, Pod Security restricted, read-only root FS, capability drops, seccomp/AppArmor.
• Network security in K8s: NetworkPolicy default-deny, ingress controllers (Nginx/AGIC), egress control, TLS everywhere, mTLS preferred.
• Image lifecycle: private registries (ACR), pull-through caches, cosign signing & admission verification, Nessus scanning.
• Observability: Azure Monitor/Logs, DCRs, dashboards, SLOs, alert routing to ITSM; experience integrating with Sentinel or enterprise SIEM.
• Infra & config as code at scale; linting/testing/policy gates; change automation and drift detection (GitOps).
• Solid Linux fundamentals, networking, PKI, and incident response.

Additional Information

We are driven by our AEIOU beliefs—Adventure, Excellence, Integrity, Ownership, and Unity—and we seek individuals who embody these values in both their professional and personal lives. We are committed to our Impact: Valuing our clients, Growing our people, and Creating our future.

Together, we make the extraordinary happen.

Learn more about us at ncs.co and visit our LinkedIn career site.