Operations Support Engineer (Associate/Senior, Contract - Renewable), Technology Consulting

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 40,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking an Operations Support Engineer in Singapore to ensure the reliability and efficiency of technical infrastructure. This role involves monitoring system performance, managing incidents, and developing operational guides. Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s degree in IT, experience in an operations role, and strong problem-solving and communication skills. Familiarity with ITSM tools, cloud platforms, and scripting languages is advantageous.

Qualifications

• Implement change management and incident management workflows.
• Experience as an Operations Engineer or similar role in an IT setting.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze product runtime environment for optimal performance.
• Manage application and security incidents to meet SLA.
• Develop operations and processes guide to ensure compliance.

Skills

ITSM tools (e.g. Remedy, Zendesk, ServiceDesk)

Cloud native monitoring options (e.g. Cloudwatch, Stackdriver)

Scripting tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)

Agile methodologies

DevOps pipelines

Problem-solving skills

Strong communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Application Performance Management (APM) tools

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

Job description

Operations Support Engineer (Associate/Senior, Contract - Renewable), Technology Consulting

Location: Other locations: Primary Location Only

The opportunity

We are looking for an operations engineer in IT product management who will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, stability, and efficiency of our technical infrastructure. The individual will work closely with developers, product managers, and user support to identify and rectify any issues that could affect the performance of the system. This role is crucial in maintaining high uptime and providing the expected level of service to our users.

Your key responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze the current state of various product runtime environment (production and non-production) to ensure optimum system performance and work out data-based strategy for continuous improvement. Work with application teams, solution architects, security consultants, and other teams to implement improvement plans.
• Manage application and security incidents, conduct problem determination, work with various internal teams and vendors to resolve issues on a timely basis to meet SLA, provides reporting and escalation to higher management or incident committee if necessary.
• Develop operations and processes guide to ensure every aspect of operations is documented and complies with audit requirements.
• Manage day-to-day operation activities, analyse statistics and write status and progress reports, and present findings to stakeholders and higher management.

Skills and attributes for success

• Implement change management and incident management workflows, using ITSM tools e.g. Remedy, Zendesk, ServiceDesk to automate workflows is advantageous.
• Implement security and access control measures to control privileged access to test and production environment.
• Implement full stack monitoring (i.e. application and infrastructure) using Application Performance Management (APM) tools.
• Familiarity with cloud native monitoring options (e.g. Cloudwatch, Stackdriver) and the OpenAPM stack is preferred.
• Identify and implement process automation to minimum downtime and human errors. Familiarity with scripting tools e.g. Terraform, Ansible is preferred.
• Experienced in agile methodologies, DevOps pipelines, test-driven development, and info-security practices.
• Able to work collaboratively with a high-performance team and influence with positive energy.
• Resourceful and able to work out solutions with innovative thinking and new tech.
• Experienced with management on-premise and cloud infrastructure and services / certification with GPC, GCC (i.e. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) or equivalent cloud platforms will be preferred.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical issues to non-technical teams.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience as an Operations Engineer or similar role in an IT setting.

What we look for

We are looking for individuals with an end-to-end mindset—someone who doesn't just manage a list of tasks but understands how the product team functions as a cohesive unit to build world-class digital products.

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