We're Hiring: Senior L1/L2 Support Engineer! We are looking for an experienced Senior L1/L2 Support Engineer to join our dynamic team in Singapore. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical skills and a passion for providing exceptional customer support, ensuring the smooth operation of IT systems and services.
Location: Singapore, Singapore Work Mode: Work from Office Role: Senior L1/L2 Support Engineer
Key Responsibilities
Production Support & Incident Management
- Act as the primary L1/L2 support contact for digital platforms, e-commerce systems, websites, and customer-facing services.
- Monitor incident queues, service requests, alerts, and support tickets, ensuring adherence to SLAs and operational procedures.
- Lead incident triage, troubleshooting, escalation, and resolution activities.
- Perform impact assessment and coordinate with relevant stakeholders during service disruptions.
- Support incident management activities and facilitate communication during critical outages.
- Conduct post-incident reviews and root cause analysis (RCA) to prevent recurrence.
- Develop and maintain operational runbooks, support procedures, and knowledge base articles.
System Monitoring & Reliability
- Monitor application, infrastructure, and business service health using observability and monitoring tools.
- Analyse system performance, availability, error trends, and capacity utilization.
- Configure and tune alerts to reduce noise and improve operational visibility.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve system reliability and operational resilience.
- Support Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, including reliability metrics, incident reduction, and service availability improvements.
Cloud & Infrastructure Support
- Provide operational support for cloud-hosted applications and infrastructure, primarily on AWS.
- Perform first-level troubleshooting on:
- Compute services — EC2, ECS, Lambda
- Networking
- Load Balancers
- CDN services
- Storage services
- Investigate infrastructure-related issues affecting application performance or availability.
- Support deployment verification and post-release monitoring activities.
Application & Integration Support
- Troubleshoot application issues across web, mobile, APIs, and middleware platforms.
- Analyse application logs, monitoring data, and system traces to identify root causes.
- Support integrations with external systems, partners, payment gateways, and other enterprise platforms.
- Work closely with L3 to reproduce issues and validate fixes.
- Support release and deployment activities, including late-night and weekend implementations when required.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify recurring incidents and operational inefficiencies.
- Drive automation opportunities to reduce manual effort and repetitive support activities.
- Recommend improvements to monitoring, alerting, deployment processes, and support workflows.
- Contribute to operational excellence initiatives and service reliability improvements.
Stakeholder & Vendor Management
- Collaborate with internal teams, external vendors, and partners across different geographies and time zones.
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Provide timely updates during incidents and service disruptions.
- Participate in operational reviews, governance meetings, and service improvement discussions.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Skills
- 5+ years of experience in Application Support, Production Support, Technical Operations, TechOps, or related roles.
- Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and operational support.
- Good understanding of cloud-native application architecture.
- Experience supporting:
- Digital platforms
- E-commerce systems
- Customer-facing web applications
- Mobile applications
- Knowledge of CDN technologies and content delivery architecture.
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as:
- Datadog
- New Relic
- Dynatrace
- AppDynamics
- Grafana
- CloudWatch
- Familiarity with APM (Application Performance Monitoring) concepts.
- Understanding of SRE principles and operational best practices.
- Strong knowledge of:
- APIs
- Microservices
- Web services
- System integrations
- Authentication and authorization flows
- Experience using ticketing and ITSM platforms such as Jira Service Management, ServiceNow, etc.
- Understanding of Incident, Problem, and Change Management processes.
- Familiarity with log analysis tools such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Splunk, or CloudWatch Logs.
Soft Skills
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical thinking abilities.
- Naturally curious and investigative, with a desire to understand the full context behind incidents and operational events.
- Excellent problem-solving and root cause analysis skills.
- Strong ownership mindset and accountability.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced operational environment.
- Good communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to remain calm and methodical during high-severity incidents.
- Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing practices.
- Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on automation and operational efficiency.
Good to Have Skills
- Knowledge of WeChat Mini Program ecosystem and integrations.
- Experience supporting SAP Commerce, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Magento, Shopify, or similar e-commerce platforms.
- Basic scripting skills — Python, Shell, Bash, PowerShell.
- Experience with API Gateway and event-driven architectures.
- AWS Certifications — Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect Associate, SysOps Administrator.
- ITIL Foundation certification.
- Experience supporting payment gateways and digital commerce ecosystems.
- Ability to communicate in Mandarin.
Working Conditions
- Participate in a 24x7 support and on-call rotation model.
- Support late-night, weekend, and public holiday deployments where required.
- Work closely with internal teams, vendors, and stakeholders across multiple time zones.
- Respond to critical production incidents outside business hours when necessary.