SRE Support Engineer - Trading & Financial Systems

China, Beijing Branch; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

DBS Asia Central is seeking an experienced production support specialist for mission-critical financial applications. You will provide functional and technical support for GFM applications, engage with Front Office and traders during market hours, and own incidents to restore services quickly.

You will monitor performance, optimize reliability, and collaborate with development teams to test deployments. Strong scripting, OpenShift, and AWS experience are essential for success in this

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar role supporting mission-critical financial applications.
• Hands-on experience with IBM Spectrum Computing (Murex GRID).
• Strong understanding of FX trading applications (eFXO).
• Practical experience with AWS services (ECS, EC2, CloudWatch).
• Experience working with Red Hat OpenShift (Pods, Containers, Clusters).
• Knowledge of Java, Microservices architecture, and Databases (MSSQL, MariaDB & MongoDB).
• Familiarity with Shell scripting, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS services.
• Excellent communication skills with traders and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide functional and technical support for GFM applications to ensure stable production operations.
• Support users across Front Office, Back Office, Finance, and FX, including direct engagement with traders during market hours for time-sensitive issues.
• Analyse, own, and resolve production incidents impacting trading or downstream processes; coordinate with cross-functional teams to restore services promptly.
• Proactively monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations to enhance system reliability and scalability.
• Collaborate with development teams to test and deploy enhancements, bug fixes, and new features.
• Drive automation of support activities and operational tasks to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Develop monitoring tools and alerts to enable proactive issue detection and auto-healing/recovery mechanisms.
• Provide day-to-day production support for DBS in-house Front Office applications.
• Participate in on-call rotations, including after-hours support and weekend implementations where required.
• Work in shift rotations during support duty weeks and manage escalations from Level 1 teams.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, process enhancements, and knowledge-sharing practices.
• Maintain strong collaboration within the support team and across GFMT teams, ensuring high-quality service delivery to business users.
• Automate recurring tasks to reduce operational toil for both end users and internal teams.
• Strong ownership and accountability, Team player with collaborative mindset and Customer-focused with a commitment to service excellence

Skills

Financial apps support

Murex GRID

FX trading apps

AWS services

OpenShift

Java

CI/CD pipelines

Shell scripting

DevOps tools (Git)

Bitbucket/Jenkins

CA Release Automation

ELK Prometheus Grafana

On-call support

Tools

Git

Bitbucket

Jenkins

CA Release Automation

Job description

DBS Asia Central is seeking an experienced production support specialist for mission-critical financial applications. You will provide functional and technical support for GFM applications, engage with Front Office and traders during market hours, and own incidents to restore services quickly.

You will monitor performance, optimize reliability, and collaborate with development teams to test deployments. Strong scripting, OpenShift, and AWS experience are essential for success in this