Application Support Engineer

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Responsibilities

• Ensure maximum uptime for multiple production systems
• Provide L1/L2 application production support to users for trading, data processing, and IT operations
• Provide weekend support on a rotational basis and occasional public holiday support
• Manage, own and frequently follow-up incidents and requests raised to the team
• Monitor and follow up critical system alerts; perform initial diagnosis and potential fix and escalate to the right teams
• Assume the role of major incident manager upon major incidents, focusing on coordinating efforts, seeking updates from fellow tech teammates and providing timely updates to all stakeholders
• Perform system operation and administration tasks, including checking and monitor multiple systems performance on a daily basis
• Work closely with internal users and external vendors to investigate and resolve production system issues, and communicate system enhancement /bug fix requirements to multiple engineering teams
• Work to comply with SLA and OLA
• Hands-on for incident management, change management and response management and writing RCA reports
• Document knowledge articles and manage the team's knowledge base; share and promote overall knowledge level
• Coordinate between product and development teams to ensure effective delivery of supporting services to the end-user

Responsibilities

• Ensure maximum uptime for multiple production systems
• Provide L1/L2 application production support to users for trading, data processing, and IT operations
• Provide weekend support on a rotational basis and occasional public holiday support
• Manage, own and frequently follow-up incidents and requests raised to the team
• Monitor and follow up critical system alerts; perform initial diagnosis and potential fix and escalate to the right teams
• Assume the role of major incident manager upon major incidents, focusing on coordinating efforts, seeking updates from fellow tech teammates and providing timely updates to all stakeholders
• Perform system operation and administration tasks, including checking and monitor multiple systems performance on a daily basis
• Work closely with internal users and external vendors to investigate and resolve production system issues, and communicate system enhancement /bug fix requirements to multiple engineering teams
• Work to comply with SLA and OLA
• Hands-on for incident management, change management and response management and writing RCA reports
• Document knowledge articles and manage the team's knowledge base; share and promote overall knowledge level
• Provide support in non-office hours during emergency situations
• Coordinate between product and development teams to ensure effective delivery of supporting services to the end-user

• Very strong sense of self-discipline, responsibility and integrity
• A strong interest in working in crypto technology and financial environments
• Min 3-5 years of experience in application support with fintech background
• Very strong team player and ability to proactively manage self and team's work with little supervision; high sense of responsibility and integrity
• Support experience in applications on Linux environment and cloud computing
• Knowledge in basic linux commands
• Experience in any code/scripting languages
• Proficient in SQL Database queries and relational database concepts
• Familiar with log traversal tools such as Sumologic or Kibana, or via linux command line
• Good knowledge in formal and practical production support model
• Experience with ITSM platforms like Jira, Service Now, etc
• Excellent problem solving skill with a keen eye for detail
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent time management ability and self organised and motivated

• Good understanding of the ITIL V3/4 framework is highly preferred
• Understanding of AWS / Kubernetes is a plus
• Knowledge of Redis and log queries is a plus
• Experience in automations / AI would be an advantage
• Experience administering multiple monitoring systems such as Datadog, New Relic, Kubernetes, Grafana and Elastic Cloud
• Experience with Cloud Computing, AWS, Microservices…