Technical Architect

OPUS IT Services Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT services provider in Singapore is seeking a senior role to lead the establishment of a Centre of Excellence for DevSecOps and cloud operations. The successful candidate will provide strategic advisory to senior stakeholders and guide best practices in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include team leadership, stakeholder management, and hands-on enablement through workshops. Candidates should have at least 7 years of IT delivery experience, with strong expertise in Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of IT delivery experience, including 3 years leading teams.
• Hands-on experience with Day 2 operations and secure cloud architecture.
• Familiarity with Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) across AWS/Azure tenants.

Responsibilities

• Lead the establishment of a Centre of Excellence for DevSecOps and cloud operations.
• Conduct assessments and design modernisation roadmaps.
• Build and mentor the CoE and enable cross-department adoption.

Skills

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Kubernetes (AKS/EKS)

Cloud Networking (Azure/AWS)

Stakeholder Management

Strategic Thinking

Observability

Vulnerability Management

Job description

Role Purpose

Lead the establishment of a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for the Gov Agency to unify and standardise DevSecOps and cloud operations across teams. Act as a strategic advisor to senior stakeholders—aligning practices with organisational goals, reducing costs, ensuring compliance, and driving operational efficiency in a public sector context.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Advisory

Provide deep expertise on DevSecOps and cloud infrastructure best practices, guiding standards for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and secure cloud architecture.

Discovery & Planning

Conduct assessments of current application and platform setups; design modernisation roadmaps covering tooling, pipelines, environments, and operational models.

Stakeholder Management

Present options and trade offs to executive and delivery stakeholders; communicate business value and measurable outcomes effectively.

Team Leadership

Build and mentor the CoE; enable cross department adoption of common tooling, templates, guardrails, and ways of working.

Hands on Enablement

Run workshops and pairing sessions to implement new tools/practices (CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, observability, security checks, cost controls).

Key Initiatives (First 6–9 Months)

CI/CD Migration

Transition build/release pipelines from Jenkins to Azure DevOps (ADO) with standardised templates, gated approvals, and integrated security scans.

Operational Independence

Design self sufficient operational models enabling product teams to build, release, and run services with clear guardrails and SLAs.

Infrastructure Assessment

Evaluate Azure landing zones and workloads for security, cost, and performance improvements; recommend remediation and automation.

Shared Assets

Develop reusable CI/CD templates, IaC modules, security/enforcement policies, and platform tools for organisation-wide adoption.

Required Skills and Qualifications

Technical Expertise

Proficiency in Azure DevOps, Terraform, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), and cloud networking (Azure/AWS).

Operations & Security

Hands on experience with Day 2 operations, observability (logs, metrics, traces), secure cloud architecture, vulnerability management, and shift left security.

Stakeholder Management

Strong communication and presentation skills to influence diverse teams and senior stakeholders.

Strategic Thinking

Demonstrated ability to align technical decisions with broader business goals, value realisation, and operational excellence.

Minimum Experience

At least 7 years of IT delivery experience, including 3 years leading teams.

Singapore GCC / WOG Experience (Highly Preferred)

Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) familiarity across AWS/Azure tenants and WOG guardrails; understanding of GCC managed security capabilities (e.g., AWS Config, Security Hub enablement across regions) and cost/operational considerations for agencies.

Experience working with Singapore Government platforms and toolchains—such as SHIP HATS 2.0 (DevSecOps tooling, onboarding, governance) and SGTS (Singapore Government Tech Stack) environments.

Practical exposure to agency delivery contexts (e.g., transportation and citizen service domains) with structured DevSecOps design principles, release management, and governance.

Preferred Experience

Designing common pipeline templates for microservices, artefact/versioning strategies (tag vs branch based), and integrating API gateway deployment flows.

Establishing Cloud/DevSecOps CoE operating models (roles, responsibilities, service catalogue, engagement model, enablement playbooks).

Implementing cost governance (FinOps), environment standardisation, and platform SRE practices.

Familiarity with public sector compliance expectations (data protection, secure SDLC, auditability) and enterprise change controls.