Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
GovTech
| Company | GovTech |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Singapore |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Senior |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 12 May 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
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 you a purposeful career to make lives better where we empower our people to master their craft through robust learning and development opportunities all year round. Play a part in Singapore’s vision to build a Smart Nation and embark on your meaningful journey to build tech for public good. Join us to advance our mission and shape your future with us today! Learn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg.
You will lead initiatives in security engineering, security architecture, or emerging cybersecurity technology research, taking ownership of complex security implementations and contributing to scalable solutions for government systems.
You will work on a set of core engineering platform products in the Singapore Government Tech Stack (SGTS) , collaborating with developers, infrastructure teams, and security architects to embed security across government systems in alignment with broader cybersecurity policies.
[What You Will Be Working On]
Security Architecture & Engineering
Design secure system architectures adhering to best practices, running POCs to meet stakeholder requirements
Perform threat modelling exercises and propose risk mitigation strategies
Define and enforce security standards across CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes platforms
Embed security controls into developer-centric tooling including agentic AI and coding assistants
Cyber Defence & Incident Response
Lead or support incident response activities, including scoping, containment, eradication and post-incident reviews
Perform alert triage and investigation across security monitoring platforms (SIEM, EDR, cloud-native tools)
Develop and refine detection rules, playbooks, and response runbooks
Conduct threat hunting to proactively identify indicators of compromise or lateral movement
Analyse threat intelligence and translate findings into defensive measures
Collaborate with Govtech Operation and Incident Response teams during security incidents
Partner with Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), stakeholders, project teams, and vendors to ensure security objectives are achieved.
Product Engineering
Design and implement security features spanning multiple services, with considerations for modularity, scalability, and resiliency
Evaluate solution options and contribute to selecting approaches aligned with product and organisational goals, contributing to improving security posture of products.
Proactively reduce technical security debt and maintain long-term system health
Participate in technical decision-making on design and implementation trade-offs between usability and security
Emerging Technology Research
Independently explore securing emerging technologies, and emerging security controls and conduct comparative analysis
Build and test early prototypes; validate effectiveness through controlled experiments
Leadership & Collaboration
Drive security initiatives that support divisional strategic objectives
Coordinate cross-functional collaboration and facilitate alignment among team members and stakeholders
Mentor and grow team members, contributing to capability development across the team
Support team coordination and help resolve day-to-day technical blockers
[What We Are Looking For]
Technical Skills
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