IT Security Officer (CyberSecurity Engineer) - A26170

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?

The Government Technology Agency (GovTech) is the lead agency driving Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives and public sector digital transformation. As the Centre of Excellence for Infocomm Technology and Smart Systems (ICT & SS), GovTech develops the Singapore Government’s capabilities in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Application Development, Smart City Technology, Digital Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity.

At GovTech, we offer a purposeful career that contributes to improving lives. We empower our people through continuous learning and development opportunities while fostering an Agile, Bold, and Collaborative culture to deliver impactful solutions.

In this role, you will apply foundational security principles to real-world engineering challenges while executing security tasks with increasing independence. Depending on your area of focus, you may contribute to improving security implementations, automating security processes, reviewing secure code and design patterns, and evaluating new cybersecurity tools.

You will work closely with security and product teams to support threat modelling, implement security controls, and perform security-related operations to secure government systems.

Cybersecurity Operational Work

• Perform routine reporting and dashboarding activities, leveraging automation to improve efficiency
• Support the review of VAPT findings and contribute to remediation planning
• Validate security vulnerabilities and findings from various assessment reports
• Refine incident response playbooks
• Contribute to compliance-related documentation and evidence collection
• Assist in implementing security controls and operational security tasks
• Participate in threat modelling exercises and identify security requirements from policies
• Perform periodic IAM role reviews to ensure least privilege access principles

Security Architecture & Engineering

• Apply security standards and controls across CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes platforms, and cloud environments

Cyber Defence & Incident Response

• Support incident response activities and escalate complex issues appropriately
• Perform alert triage and assist in investigations across security monitoring platforms
• Contribute to refining detection rules, playbooks, and response runbooks
• Support guided threat hunting activities to identify potential indicators of compromise

Product Engineering

• Deliver POCs or features spanning multiple components while balancing security, performance, and maintainability
• Utilise code and cloud security analysis tools and remediate findings appropriately
• Recommend improvements to enhance product security, performance, and team efficiency

Emerging Technology Research

• Conduct testing of new tools in lab environments and summarise findings
• Contribute to POC initiatives with defined objectives and outcomes

Collaboration & Growth

• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders to ensure tasks are executed effectively
• Share knowledge, resources, and lessons learnt openly to support team success
• Suggest improvements that enhance team effectiveness