Application Support & Reliability (ASR) -L2 | WealthManagement
Location: Singapore
Function: L2-Application Support & Reliability
Domain: Wealth Management
Justification for replacement: Replacement of the Singapore position with anSingapore-based contractor is required to maintain support for 20+ Tier 1Australia WMI applications (including eBanking, trading systems) and absorbadditional support demand for several Japan, Taiwan and Singapore applications.The customer expectation in APAC, especially WMI location is above an beyondHK/SG, the role is essential to ensure service continuity, operationalstability, SLA adherence, and sufficient support capacity as the WMI APACapplication support scope expands. The contractor model provides acost-effective and scalable solution to meet growing business requirementswhile reducing operational risk.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced L2 Application Support& Reliability Engineer to join our team supporting critical WealthManagement applications across the region.
The role combines hands-on production application support,reliability engineering and SRE practices, with a strong focus on maintainingapplication stability, reliability, and operational excellence through TOILelimination, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities include application ownership, incident andproblem management, shift-based monitoring, on-call support, and participationin resilience and recovery testing.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a Primary or Secondary L2 Support SME for designatedapplications, maintaining strong functional and technical expertise acrosssupported systems.
- Lead the investigation, diagnosis, and resolution ofproduction incidents to ensure timely service restoration and effective stakeholdercommunication.
- Drive Major Incident Management activities, includingincident coordination, escalation management, technical team engagement, andstakeholder communications to minimize business impact.
- Participate in an weekly duty roaster and on-call supportrota, providing operational support for critical incidents andbusiness-impacting issues outside standard business hours.
- Support production releases and maintenance activities,including post-deployment validation, service readiness checks, and operationalmonitoring.
- Maintain and continuously improve system documentation,runbooks, knowledge articles, and operational procedures to support knowledgesharing and service continuity.
- Conduct post-incident reviews, document lessons learned andimplement process improvements to strengthen operational resilience and reducerecurring issues.
- Participate in Change Review and CAB activities, includingchange assessments, impact analysis, risk evaluation, and production readinessreviews.
- Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders todeliver stable, reliable, and high-performing services while driving continuousimprovement in support processes, automation, and service reliability.
- Participate in Business Continuity Management (BCM) andDisaster Recovery (DR) exercises for assigned applications, including planning,execution support, and post-test analysis.
- Participate in a rotating operational support and on-callroster, performing daily operational health checks, validating systemreadiness, monitoring service stability, and supporting critical productionincidents and escalations
Reliability & SRE
- Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to improve application availability, resilience and operational reliability.
- Own and manage the RTB (Run-the-Bank) issue backlog forassigned systems; identify recurring issues and drive root cause analysis andpermanent fixes.
- Practice a no-blame problem management culture: focus onlearning, process improvement, and system design changes rather than individualfault.
- Track recurring manual tasks and operational pain points asTOIL; prioritize and drive TOIL reduction through automation, tooling, andprocess changes.
- Proactively raise defects and improvement opportunities(e.g., via JIRA/GitLab) and collaborate with Product Owners, developers, andstakeholders to improve application stability and resilience.
- Continuously improve monitoring, observability, and alertquality (e.g., via Splunk, AppDynamics, Azure monitoring), aiming formeaningful, actionable alerts and eliminating false positives.
- Participate in and help design automation initiatives,including:
- Automated health checks and smoke tests after releases orkey changes
- Automated SOD/EOD checks where feasible
- Scripts or workflows to remove repetitive manual tasks
Required Skills & Experience
3-5 years of experience in L2/production support orapplication support, ideally in financial services or a similarly regulatedenvironment.
Strong understanding of incident, problem, and changemanagement processes (ITIL or equivalent), with a practical SRE/continuousimprovement mindset.
Technical Skills
Experience with clo