Senior Engineering Leader — AI-Driven Platform & Ops

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Total rewards package

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Job summary

GovTech Singapore is seeking an experienced engineering leader to build and lead a multi-disciplinary TechOps organization spanning DevOps, Quality Engineering, Database Engineering, Security Operations, Production Support, and Observability. You will set structures, OKRs, and progression frameworks while driving AI-assisted engineering practices and cloud-native standards.

You will own the engineering platforms, drive self-service deployment within guardrails, and establish incident management

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in technology, with 6+ years in engineering leadership
• Proven track record in FinOps and cloud cost optimisation at scale
• Experience with data platforms and cloud infrastructure
• Track record managing multiple engineering disciplines simultaneously
• Experience executing large-scale cloud migrations
• Strong vendor and alliance management
• Experience in compliance-heavy environments
• Comfortable with AI-assisted engineering workflows

Responsibilities

• Build, hire, and grow a multi-disciplinary TechOps team (10+ engineers, growing) spanning DevOps, Quality Engineering, Database Engineering, Security Operations, Production Support, and Observability
• Define team structures, RACI, roles, career ladders, and progression frameworks; clarify interfaces between TechOps pillars, product squads, and Architecture
• Own OKRs and delivery milestones for TechOps; report progress, risks, and capacity constraints to programme leadership
• Set the standard for how TechOps works: automate by default, measure what matters, fix what's broken
• Own the engineering platforms that product squads depend on: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, quality gates, security scanning, observability, and database services
• Deliver governed self-service so squads deploy independently within approved guardrails
• Own the Green Lane and ensure smooth releases: deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR
• Establish production support operations (L1/L2/L3), on-call processes, and incident management frameworks
• Drive compliance readiness: audit evidence, security accreditation, and go-live gates for each programme wave
• Set and enforce enterprise-wide engineering standards across code quality, testing, review processes, and deployment safety
• Drive AI-assisted engineering workflows: standardised tooling, AI-augmented code review, test generation, and quality evaluation

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cloud cost optimisation

FinOps

Data platforms

Security operations

Vendor management

Compliance governance

AI-assisted development

Cloud strategy

Tools

AWS

Job description

GovTech Singapore is seeking an experienced engineering leader to build and lead a multi-disciplinary TechOps organization spanning DevOps, Quality Engineering, Database Engineering, Security Operations, Production Support, and Observability. You will set structures, OKRs, and progression frameworks while driving AI-assisted engineering practices and cloud-native standards.

You will own the engineering platforms, drive self-service deployment within guardrails, and establish incident management