Technical Support Engineer (L2) Engineering · Melbourne ·

Fortiro; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortiro is seeking a Technical Support Engineer to own the alert queue, investigate in AWS CloudWatch and OpenSearch, and execute runbooks to resolve incidents. The role covers evenings, weekends, and holidays in a hybrid-work setup.

You will work with ECS, Lambda, SQS/SNS, RDS, and S3, maintaining runbooks and escalation paths while delivering clear post-incident reviews. Fortiro offers growth into SRE and platform engineering.

Qualifications

• Experience in technical support, NOC, SRE-adjacent, or platform operations in SaaS or cloud.
• Hands-on with AWS CloudWatch and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.
• Ability to reason about distributed systems from symptoms to sources before running a runbook.
• Familiar with AWS core services: ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, SQS/SNS, RDS, S3.
• Strong triage instincts and disciplined runbook execution; clear written communication.
• Basic scripting: Bash or Python for repetitive investigation steps.
• Willingness to work rotating evenings, weekends, and public holidays.
• Bonus: exposure to financial services, fraud detection, or regulated SaaS.

Responsibilities

• Own the alert queue during rostered windows and drive each alert to resolution or escalation within SLA.
• Investigate in AWS CloudWatch and OpenSearch across the platform architecture.
• Execute runbooks precisely; log every action for audit and post-incident review.
• Escalate with a clean handover: symptoms, evidence, actions taken, business impact.
• Cover rotating shifts including evenings, weekends, and public holidays to protect enterprise SLA commitments.
• Coordinate incidents through to mitigation and contribute to post-incident reviews.
• Partner with the Cloud Observability Engineer to flag noisy alerts and automation candidates.
• Maintain and grow the runbook library, escalation matrix, and known-issues log.

Skills

AWS CloudWatch

OpenSearch

ECS

Lambda

SQS/SNS

RDS

Runbooks

Incident Management

Scripting

Python

Bash

Communication

Tools

OpenSearch

AWS

Job description

About Fortiro

Fortiro is a fintech whose AI-powered platform helps leading banks and financial services customers in Australia, New Zealand, and globally detect financial crime and automate verification in lending and insurance.

Role Mission

Fortiro’s platform underpins fraud detection for major banks and financial services customers operating to 24/7 SLAs. The Technical Support Engineer is the first line of response on our platform support team: owning the alert queue, investigating in CloudWatch and OpenSearch, resolving what the runbook covers, and escalating cleanly when it doesn’t.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the alert queue during rostered windows: acknowledge, triage, and drive each alert to resolution or escalation within SLA.

• Investigate directly in AWS CloudWatch and OpenSearch, using knowledge of the platform architecture including but limited to ECS, Step Functions, Lambda, SQS/SNS, RDS, and S3 to know where to look first.

• Execute runbooks precisely; log every action for audit and post-incident review.

• Escalate with a clean handover: symptoms, evidence, actions taken, business impact.

• Cover a rotating shift pattern including evenings, weekends, and public holidays to protect enterprise SLA commitments.

• Coordinate incidents through to mitigation and contribute to post-incident reviews.

• Partner with the Cloud Observability Engineer to flag noisy alerts, missing signals, and candidates for automation.

• Maintain and grow the runbook library, escalation matrix, and known-issues log.

What you’ll bring to the role

• Experience in a technical support, NOC, SRE-adjacent, or platform operations role in a SaaS or cloud environment.

• Hands-on with AWS CloudWatch (metrics, alarms, Log Insights) and OpenSearch / Elasticsearch (queries, tenant/request filtering, cross-service correlation).

• Ability to hold a mental model of a distributed system and reason from symptoms to likely source before opening a runbook.

• Working familiarity with AWS core services: ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, SQS/SNS, RDS, S3.

• Strong triage instincts and disciplined runbook execution; clear, calm written communication under pressure.

• Basic scripting (Bash, Python, or similar) for repetitive investigation steps.

• Availability to work rotating evenings, weekends, and public holidays.

• Bonus: exposure to financial services, fraud detection, or regulated SaaS.

Why Fortiro

• Impact: Support the platforms that protect major banks from financial crime.

• Growth: Clear path into SRE, observability, or platform engineering as the business scales.

• Culture: Inclusive, flexible, hybrid working with a long-term investment in our people.