Toa Payoh - Application Support Analyst

We are seeking an application support analyst with a strong a strong focus on site reliability engineering (SRE) to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our critical applications. In this role, you will bridge the gap between development and operations, applying software engineering principles to automate and optimise system reliability, troubleshoot application issues, and improve incident response.

Responsibilities:

• Provide tier-2/3 support for production applications, diagnose and resolve complex issues.
• Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, conduct root cause analysis (RCA), and implement preventive measures.
• Perform and coordinate of testing and deployment of changes to the systems
• Creation and maintenance of customised scripts to generate reports for customers
• Improve monitoring, logging, and alerting to proactively detect and mitigate issues.

• Define and track SLAs for application reliability.
• Optimise application performance through system and process redesigns and working with infrastructure teams to tune performance of database and servers.

• Develop automation scripts / programs (Windows batch, Powershell, C++ application, Bash, etc.) to reduce manual toil.

• Work closely with development, infrastructure and security teams within the departments and vendors to improve system architecture.
• Document runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and best practices.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in SRE or application support roles in financial institutions.
• Knowledge in back-office for securities and/or derivative business
• Understanding of financial products, mostly equities, would be beneficial
• Strong troubleshooting skills in distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with:

> Scripting (Powershell, Windows batch, Python, Bash) for automation.

• Proficient in Microsoft SQL Server data access commands, able to read stored procedure code, and have experience in huge data access
• Understanding of security best practices in application reliability.
• Strong analytical ability and problem-solving skills, good interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal across different levels of management and users, customer, and vendors
• Diploma / Degree in Computer Science / Information Technology or equivalent
• Certifications like ITIL will be benefical.
• Plus: Exposure in financial industry with good working experience and understanding of various business processes within securities and futures brokering.