Job Description

The Government Technology Agency (GovTech) aims to transform the delivery of Government digital services by taking an "outside-in" view, putting citizens and businesses at the heart of everything we do. We also develop the Smart Nation infrastructure and applications, and facilitate collaboration with citizens and businesses to co-develop technologies.

Join us as we support Singapore\xe2\x80\x99s vision of building a Smart Nation - a nation of possibilities empowered through info-communications technology and related engineering.

The Government Infrastructure Group (GIG) is responsible for providing the ICT Infrastructure where the whole government will rely on for its digitalization effort and smart nation initiatives. The infrastructure layer covers the data centers, networks, cloud and endpoints. The modernization of the infrastructure and related services are underway and further efforts will be required to drive the adoption of advanced technologies to bring greater value to the country.
If you are someone with strong infrastructure background and passionate about technology, looking for opportunities to work with a team of practitioners and leading industry experts, we welcome you to join GIG.

What you will be working on:
The ideal candidate would have experience operating IT network infrastructure and keen to automate network activities by simplifying processes and automating network changes (e.g. firewalls, routing, patching, firmware upgrade, etc) to avoid human errors and reduce turnaround time.

What we are looking for:

Keen to learn and work on network automation, i.e. capturing user requests from portal, to triggering workflow and implementing backend changes such as routers, firewalls, switches, etc.

Knowledge and experience in any of the following areas:a.Automation tools such as Ansible, AlgoSec, Tufin, etc; b.Product development using DevOps methodology; c.CI/CD processes; d.Source control management tools; e.Rest APIs design and development.

Define minimum viable product (MVP), assess value, develop use cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to derive maximum value from use cases.

Overseeing all stages of network automation including prototyping, design, development, testing, releases and post support, including continuous enhancements.

Work with contractors to develop and review the codes (e.g. in HTML, JavaScript, JSON, Python, etc) to ensure feature releases or enhancements are well-tested and ready for production.

Manage product planning roadmap/releases and agile development team to set expectation for delivery of new functionalities.

Engage stakeholders (e.g. Management, Agencies and Internal Cross Functional Teams) to rationalize business requirements, present and articulate solution to resolve common issue or repetitive tasks.

Collaborate with external engineering teams to create API-driven processes to facilitate new functionalities and integrations.

Good domain knowledge for network and security technologies. (e.g. Subnetting, Routing, VPNs, Firewall Platforms etc)

Understand design/setup of typical networks deployment. (e.g. LAN, WAN, WLAN)

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company as we believe that diversity is meaningful to innovation. Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks. This includes generous leave benefits to meet your work-life needs. We trust that you will get the job done wherever you are, and whatever works best for you \xe2\x80\x93 so work from home or take a break to exercise if you need to*. We also believe it\xe2\x80\x99s important for you to keep honing your craft in the constantly-evolving tech landscape, so we provide and support a plethora of in-house and external learning and development opportunities all year round.

*Subject to the nature of your job role that might require you to be onsite during fixed hours

Government Technology Agency