You will be part of a dynamic team responsible for exploring, designing, building and maintaining our infra security services. You must ensure the reliability, availability and security of the infra platform and services by implementing automation, monitoring and incident response. You must have a good understanding of IT architecture, cybersecurity capabilities, site reliability engineering (SRE) and an analytical mind to troubleshoot and analyse any security related incidents.
Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies
Infra Security Engineer
Permanent
Closing on 30 Nov 2026What the role is
What you will be working on
· Design and implement cyber security products and services that are scalable and reliable
· Develop and maintain automation tools and scripts to scale security services, including the use of infra-as-code.
· Build-in observability for monitoring, to assist in problem diagnosis and provide insights to security systems health and performance
· Respond to security incidents and systems outages by performing root cause analysis on the security products and services
· Define, track, and report on security systems SLO, SLI and error budgets
· Collaborate with infra engineers to integrate security products and services
· Implement and adhere to cyber and infra security best practices for infra systems and services
What we are looking for
· Degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Information Technology or a STEM qualification with relevant experience
· Proficient in infra-as-code and scripting tools like Ansible, Terraform, Linux shell scripts, Powershell, etc.
· Knowledge in IT Infrastructure (i.e. Networks, Systems, Storage) and Infra Operations
· System operations and administration experience on enterprise systems
· At least 2 years of relevant working experience, including scripting and programming is preferred.
· Fresh graduates are welcome to apply too.
Nice-to-haves
· Familiar with metrics/logging systems such as Elastic Stack and Prometheus/Grafana
As CSIT is an agency under the Ministry of Defence (Singapore), only Singapore Citizens will be considered.
About your application process
This job is closing on 30 Nov 2026.
If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the job ad closing date, we seek your understanding that it is likely that we are not moving forward with your application for this role. We thank you for your interest and would like to assure you that this does not affect your other job applications with the Public Service. We encourage you to explore and apply for other roles within Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies or the wider Public Service.
About Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies
The Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies is the lead digital technology agency in the Ministry of Defence, and a member of the Defence Technology Community. Our technical focus areas include Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, Software Engineering, and Cloud Infrastructure and Services. We conduct applied research and develop customised digital solutions to support national missions such as cyber defence and counter-terrorism.
Please visit our website (https://www.csit.gov.sg/) for more info on what we do, for scholarship/internship/career opportunities and more!
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