About this role
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.
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 and 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 and 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 and secrets:
- Implement Entra ID RBAC & PIM, Managed Identities, Key Vault / Secrets Store CSI, and secret rotation practices. Observability and incident response:
- 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 and data protection:
- Hub-and-spoke or vWAN, Private Link/Endpoints, Private DNS, Firewall/NAT Gateway egress control; encryption at rest and in transit, KMS integrations. Resilience and disaster recovery:
- Backups (RSV/Velero), multi-region patterns, chaos exercises, capacity planning; codify DR runbooks and perform tests. FinOps and compliance:
- Implement tagging/budgets, right-sizing, Reservations/Savings Plans; map controls to CIS/NIST/ISO and produce audit evidence from pipelines. Coaching and 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
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7+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering with 3+ years on Azure and 2+ years operating Kubernetes in production.
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Proven delivery of Azure Landing Zones or equivalent enterprise Azure foundations, expressed as Terraform or Bicep modules.
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Strong with GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps, artifacts, environments, approvals, reusable workflows.
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Hands-on with container runtime security and policy: OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno, Pod Security restricted, read-only root FS, capability drops, seccomp/AppArmor.
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Network security in Kubernetes: NetworkPolicy default-deny, ingress controllers (Nginx/AGIC), egress control, TLS everywhere, mTLS preferred.
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Image lifecycle: private registries (ACR), pull-through caches, cosign signing and admission verification, Nessus scanning.
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Observability: Azure Monitor/Logs, DCRs, dashboards, SLOs, alert routing to ITSM; experience integrating with Sentinel or enterprise SIEM.
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Infrastructure and configuration as code at scale; linting/testing/policy gates; change automation and drift detection (GitOps).
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Solid Linux fundamentals, networking, PKI, and incident response.
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Additional Information
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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.
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Together, we make the extraordinary happen.
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Learn more about us at ncs.co and visit our LinkedIn career site.