Lead DevOps Engineer - Singapore

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in NinjaOne's global Platform Engineering organization, partnering closely with our US-based Platform Engineering team to support production software deployments and drive the evolution of our deployment platform.   This role has two primary areas of responsibility:   Production Deployment Engineering – sharing ownership of production deployments and release operations across our SaaS platform to ensure reliable, predictable, and high-quality software releases.    Deployment Automation & Platform Engineering – designing and implementing automated deployment solutions that eliminate manual processes, improve developer productivity, and enable engineering teams to deliver software faster and more safely.    As part of our growing Singapore engineering team, you'll help provide expanded operational coverage for global production deployments while creating additional capacity for the broader Platform Engineering organization to focus on strategic initiatives and platform modernization.   This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You'll collaborate closely with Software Engineering, SRE, QA, Product Management, Release Management, and Security teams to build scalable, secure, and highly automated software delivery platforms.    Location – Hybrid, Singapore What You’ll be Doing   Production Deployment & Release Engineering   Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of software deployments into production environments, ensuring high availability, minimal downtime, and predictable releases.    Share ownership of production deployment operations with the US Platform Engineering team, providing global coverage and operational continuity across production environments.    Partner with Engineering, SRE, QA, Release Managers, and Product teams to plan, coordinate, and execute production software releases, maintenance windows, and emergency deployments while ensuring deployment readiness, operational stability, and clear stakeholder communication. Develop and maintain deployment standards, release readiness processes, rollback procedures, and operational playbooks.    Lead post-release reviews and drive continuous improvements that increase deployment reliability and reduce operational risk.    Serve as the technical escalation point during complex production deployments and critical release activities.    Deployment Engineering & Automation   Design and implement automated deployment solutions that improve software delivery speed, consistency, and reliability.   Build reusable deployment frameworks, standardized deployment workflows, and self-service deployment capabilities.    Lead CI/CD modernization initiatives using CircleCI and related technologies.    Identify opportunities to eliminate repetitive operational work through automation and engineering solutions.    Improve deployment frequency, release quality, and engineering efficiency through continuous process improvements.    Technical Leadership   Provide technical leadership and mentorship to DevOps engineers and software engineering teams.   Drive engineering best practices, deployment standards, and operational excellence.    Collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, and Platform leadership on strategic platform initiatives.    Communicate project status, technical risks, and delivery milestones to stakeholders and leadership.

7–10+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Build & Release Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or related disciplines.    Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers.    Strong experience supporting and automating production software deployments in cloud environments.   Deep expertise building enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar platforms.    Strong experience with