Big Data Support Engineer L1

Tookitaki Holding PTE LTD; Manila; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 840,000; Full time

Job summary

Tookitaki Holding PTE LTD is seeking a Big Data Support Engineer to maintain high customer satisfaction by resolving client issues promptly across on-premise and cloud-hosted environments. The role collaborates with Product Engineering and Infrastructure to triage incidents and deliver fixes within SLA timelines.

The candidate should have strong English communication, experience with Spark, Kubernetes, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and AWS, and be able to manage complex customer relations with a

Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale production systems.
• Hands-on experience with Spark, Kubernetes, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Handle and triage tickets related to incidents, service requests, and change requests via Freshworks or equivalent ticketing platforms.
• Provide technical support for CaaS and on-premise clients post implementation, ensuring issues are resolved within SLA timelines.
• Maintain ownership of client issues, ensuring resolutions meet client expectations.

Skills

Fluent English

Client management

Cross-functional collaboration

Troubleshooting

Tools

Spark on Kubernetes

Kubernetes

Apache Kafka

Elasticsearch

AWS

Docker

Airflow

Hive/Trino

Job description

Role: Big Data Support Engineer

Job Title:Big Data Support Engineer

Location: PH

Department:Support

Reportsto:HeadofSupport

We are seeking a Technical Support Agent who will play a critical role in maintaining high customer satisfaction by ensuring timely and effective resolution of client issues. This role is essential for Tookitaki's support services, catering to both on-premise and cloud-hosted (CaaS)clients. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to manage daily support issues, adhere to SLAs, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our customer support processes.

The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of Tookitaki's product and tech stack, the ability to triage issues effectively, excellent client management skills, and fluency in English. Knowledge of Cantonese is a plus.

KeyResponsibilities:

• Handle and triage tickets related to incidents, service requests, and change requests via the Freshworks platform.
• Provide technical support for Tookitaki's CaaS and on-premise clients post implementation, ensuring issues are resolved within SLA timelines.
• Maintain ownership of client issues, ensuring resolutions align with SLAs and meet client expectations.

CollaborationandEscalation:

• Collaborate with Tookitakiʼs Product Engineering and Infrastructure teams to elevate unresolved issues, secure workarounds, or deliver fixes for P1 to P4 tickets.
• Act as a bridge between Services (onboarding team) and Support, ensuring a seamless transition when clients go live.

TechnicalExpertiseandTriage:

• Triage technical issues effectively by diagnosing the problem, identifying the root cause, and determining the appropriate resolution path.
• Develop a deep understanding of Tookitaki's product architecture and tech stack AWS, Big Data technologies like Hive, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, etc).

ClientManagementandCommunication:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, demonstrating excellent communication skills and a customer-first approach.
• Clearlyexplaintechnicalresolutionstonon-technicalstakeholders,ensuringtransparencyandtrust.

ContinuousImprovementandDocumentation:

• Maintainthoroughdocumentationofallsupporttickets,includingactionstakenandlessonslearned,intheFreshworksplatform.
• Proactivelysuggestprocessimprovementstoenhancesupportefficiencyandclientsatisfaction.

RotationalShiftsandAvailability:

• Participate in rotational shifts and ensure availability during defined upgrade windows (e.g., second and fourth Saturdays) to support both infra-wide updates and tenant-specific changes.
• Ensure24/7availabilityaspartoftheteamʼssupportstructureforcriticalescalations.

Qualifications & Skills

• Own customer incidents, service requests, and change requests through Freshworks or equivalent ticketingplatforms.
• Troubleshoot production issues affecting Spark jobs, Kubernetes workloads, Kafka pipelines, Elasticsearch clusters, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
• Ensure all customer issues are resolved within SLA while maintaining high customer satisfaction.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and document preventive actions.
• Monitor health and performance of Spark applications running on Kubernetes.
• Investigate failed Spark jobs, executor failures, pod crashes, resource contention, and scheduling issues.
• Monitor Kafka topics, brokers, consumer groups, lag, and message delivery.
• Support Elasticsearch cluster health, indexing pipelines, shard allocation, and search performance.
• Perform production validations after deployments and infrastructure upgrades.
• Participate in planned maintenance activities, upgrades, and release support.
• Diagnose issues across the complete cloud-native stack including Apache Spark on Kubernetes, Apache Kafka,Kubernetes (Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets), Docker Containers, AWS Infrastructure,Elasticsearch, Airflow Workflow Orchestration, Hive / Trino / SQL-based Data Processing, REST APIs andMicroservices, Linux-based Production Systems.
• Work closely with Product Engineering to identify software defects and Infrastructure teams to resolve platform-related issues.
• Coordinate with Product Engineering for bug fixes and product improvements.
• Work closely with Infrastructure teams during production incidents.
• Support onboarding teams during production go-live and customer transition.
• Participate in Major Incident Management (P1/P2).
• Provide timely updates to customers during incidents.
• Communicate technical issues in a clear and business-friendly manner.
• Maintain ownership until issue closure.
• Prepare incident summaries, RCA documents, and customer communications.
• Create and maintain SOPs, troubleshooting guides, and knowledge base articles.
• Identify recurring issues and recommend automation opportunities.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and operational processes.
• Contribute to platform reliability and operational excellence initiatives.
• Participate in 24x7 production support rotation.
• Provide support during scheduled maintenance windows, infrastructure upgrades, and customer go-lives.
• Support weekend deployment activities when required.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Apache Spark (Spark on Kubernetes preferred),Kubernetes,Apache Kafka,Elasticsearch
• AWS Services (EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch),Docker,Airflow,Hive / Trino,Linux Administration
• Prometheus,Grafana,Kibana,Elasticsearch Monitoring,CloudWatch,Kubernetes Logging & Monitoring
• Log Analysis and Production Diagnostics,Strong SQL knowledge,Understanding of distributed systems architecture,Knowledge of networking fundamentals.

• Experience using REST APIs
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD concepts
• Ability to analyze application logs and distributed system failures
• Understanding of resource management, autoscaling, and Kubernetes scheduling
• Excellent written and verbal English communication
• Strong stakeholder management
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical users
• Experience managing customer escalations
• Mandarin (spoken and written) is preferred
• Cantonese is an added advantage
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work under pressure during production incidents
• Prioritize incidents based on business impact
• Perform structured RCA and recommend preventive measures
• Experience working with SLA-driven support environments
• Familiarity with ITIL incident management processes
• Strong documentation practices
• Experience using Freshworks, Jira, ServiceNow, or similar platforms

EXPERIENCE

3–6years of experience supporting large-scale production systems. Experience supporting cloud-native applications running on Kubernetes. Hands-on production support experience with Spark,Kubernatives, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and AWS. Experience in Financial Services, FinTech, RegTech, SaaS, or Big Data platforms is highly desirable.