Platform Operations Engineer (Microsoft Azure) - A26288

Activate Interactive Pte Ltd (“Activate”) is a leading technology consultancy headquartered in Singapore with a presence in Malaysia and Indonesia. Our clients are empowered with quality, cost-effective, and impactful end-to-end application development, like mobile and web applications, and cloud technology that remove technology roadblocks and increase their business efficiency. We believe in positively impacting the lives of people around us and the environment we live in through the use of technology. Hence, we are committed to providing a conducive environment for all employees to realize their full potential, who in turn have the opportunity to continuously drive innovation. We are searching for our next team members to join our growing team. If you love the idea of being part of a growing company with exciting prospects in mobile and web technologies that create positive impact on people’s lives, then we would love to hear from you.

This is a 12 months fixed-term contract role.

What will you do? We are looking for a hands-on Platform Engineer with practical AI literacy to help build and scale JTC’s Digital Factory Platform on Microsoft Azure. The platform is designed as a self-service, governed and automation-led foundation that enables product teams to move AI experiments and digital products from sandbox to production faster, safer and with clearer accountability. This role sits within the Platform & Software Engineering Division and will support the development of reusable platform capabilities across infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD delivery, AI-assisted development, AI application hardening, identity and access, observability, FinOps, compliance automation and developer self-service. The successful candidate will help turn cloud complexity into secure, repeatable golden paths that product teams can consume with minimal friction.

1. Design, build and operate Azure-based platform capabilities that support the Digital Factory across sandbox, QA, UAT and production environments.
2. Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code templates using tools such as Azure Bicep, Terraform or equivalent, enabling consistent and repeatable environment provisioning.
3. Build self-service golden paths for product teams, including environment provisioning, application templates, deployment patterns, access requests and approved tooling.
4. Implement CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub, ShipHATS or equivalent platforms to automate build, test, release, promotion and rollback processes.
5. Embed security, reliability and compliance controls into platform workflows through policy-as-code, automated checks and guardrails.
6. Support the hardening of AI-generated or experimental applications into evaluable MVPs by applying secure-by-default architecture, containerization, API management, monitoring and deployment baselines.
7. Implement identity and access controls using Microsoft Entra ID, role-based access control, Privileged Identity Management, Conditional Access and least-privilege practices.
8. Develop observability capabilities using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, dashboards and business-relevant platform metrics covering cost, health, delivery, incidents and compliance.
9. Support FinOps and TCO transparency through resource tagging, budget alerts, cost allocation, token-cost tracking and show back reporting to product owners.
10. Collaborate with product owners, developers, security, audit, finance and leadership stakeholders to ensure platform capabilities are practical, governed and aligned to business outcomes.
11. Document reusable patterns, operating procedures and platform decisions to improve adoption, maintainability and knowledge retention within JTC.