Senior DevOps Engineer, Video Intelligence

Join DevOps; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

NCS is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the security, reliability, and delivery of its Azure platform and Kubernetes workloads. You will be hands-on, automating everything-as-code, and partner with product teams to enable fast, secure code shipping.

Responsibilities include platform engineering on Azure, private AKS design, CI/CD standardization, secret management, and observability with SRE discipline. Strong emphasis on security hardening and compliant supply chains.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering.
• 3+ years on Azure and 2+ years operating Kubernetes in production.
• Experience delivering Azure Landing Zones or enterprise Azure foundations.
• Hands-on with container security, policy gates and IaC.
• Experience with SBOM, image scanning and secure software supply chains.

Responsibilities

• Own security, reliability and delivery of the Azure platform and AKS workloads.
• Standardize CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Implement policy as code, SBOM, and immutable deployments (GitOps).
• Manage Entra ID RBAC, PIM, Key Vault and secret rotation.
• Establish monitoring, alerts, SLOs and incident response with SIEM integration.

Skills

Azure

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Bicep

Security hardening

GitOps

Cloud security

Observability

Tools

AKS

Azure Policy

Argo CD

Flux

Cosign

Nessus

ACR (Private registries)

Job 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.

Responsibilities

Platform engineering (Azure):

• Build and evolve Azure Landing Zones, Management Group hierarchy, subscription vending, and policy-as-code guardrails using Azure Policy or equivalent tools.

Kubernetes (AKS)

• 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 as Terraform 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.