As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.
Today, we’re on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.
We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career.
Your Opportunity Starts Here.
Cloud Middleware Support Engineer
[Note that the role involves rotational permanent Night Shift or Day shift]
Job Summary
Be an integral part of OCBC Group’s Cloud Middleware Application service team to support & operate OCBC’s Application and cloud native services.
We leverage modern technology and stacks to support and scale the bank’s applications and provide lasting value to our customers. You will be at the forefront of this transformational platform, assisting our business and technology stakeholders take advantage of OCBC growing set of features and services to run their application workloads.
As a Cloud Middleware Support Engineer, you will be the go-to liaison responsible for solving our stakeholder’s cases and arming them with required tools and techniques to help them get the most out of OCBC services.
Job responsibilities and what you might expect:
• Day to day operations in technologies like OpenShift/k8s, Redis & Kafka
• Provide technical support on full stack of OCBC Cloud Middleware services (e.g., application messaging, incident management, observability & recovery of services etc.)
• Apply problem solving and troubleshooting techniques to identify, isolate the root cause and recover from reported problems.
• Perform capacity planning and resource optimization.
• Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with security policies.
• Provide technical guidance and support to development and operations teams.
• Monitor and troubleshoot OpenShift/Kafka/Redis and application issues.
• Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting for OpenShift/Kafka/Redis clusters.
• Support Cloud Middleware services OpenShift/Kafka/Redis in a 24/7 operations and shift work will be required to include permanent nights & day shift covering weekends, and holidays.
Basic
• Possesses at least a Diploma in Computer Science/Information Technology or equivalent.
• Minimum 3 years hands-on-experience on supporting Red Hat OpenShift, Kafka, or Redis technologies.
• Knowledge of client-server, 3-tier architecture web applications & distributed systems.
• System administration experience with troubleshooting OS, application logs and knowledge of networking, storage, etc. required to address system level issues.
• A good team player and able to work effectively with stakeholders to resolve an issue to closure.
• Exposure to Bash scripting, Python, Ansible, GitOps and/or Terraform.
• Willingness to cross learn and adapt other technologies.
Preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/information technology or equivalent.
• Certified in any of these technologies (OpenShift/K8s, Kafka & Redis)
• 5 years’ experience in managing container platforms, application services, cloud technologies e.g. VMWare, Apache Kafka, Redis, and OpenShift/Kubernetes
• Demonstrate strong knowledge in technology infrastructure domain such as virtual server technologies, networking, internet protocols, scripting & observability (ELK).
• Hands-on experience with Observability stack/tool like ELK, Grafana.
What we offer:
Competitive base salary. A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle. Community initiatives. Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.
Skills Required
- Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent
- Minimum 3 years hands-on experience supporting Red Hat OpenShift, Kafka, or Redis
- Knowledge of client-server, 3-tier web applications and distributed systems
- System administration experience troubleshooting OS, application logs, networking and storage
- Exposure to Bash scripting, Python, Ansible, GitOps and/or Terraform
- Ability to work in teams and collaborate with stakeholders to resolve incidents
- Willingness to cross-learn and adapt to other technologies
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT (preferred)
- Certifications in OpenShift/Kubernetes, Kafka or Redis (preferred)
- 5 years' experience managing container platforms, application services, cloud technologies (VMware, Kafka, Redis, OpenShift) (preferred)
- Strong knowledge of virtual servers, networking, internet protocols, scripting and observability (ELK) (preferred)
- Hands-on experience with observability tools like ELK and Grafana (preferred)
What We Do
OCBC is the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932 from the merger of three local banks, the oldest of which was founded in 1912. It is now the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker. OCBC and its subsidiaries offer a broad array of commercial banking, specialist financial and wealth management services, ranging from consumer, corporate, investment, private and transaction banking to treasury, insurance, asset management and stockbroking services. OCBC’s key markets are Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Greater China. It has more than 570 branches and representative offices in 19 countries and regions. These include about 300 branches and offices in Indonesia under subsidiary Bank OCBC NISP, and over 90 branches and offices in Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR under OCBC Wing Hang. OCBC’s private banking services are provided by its wholly-owned subsidiary Bank of Singapore, which operates on a unique open-architecture product platform to source for the best-in-class products to meet its clients’ goals. OCBC's insurance subsidiary, Great Eastern Holdings, is the oldest and most established life insurance group in Singapore and Malaysia. Its asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors, is one of the largest private sector asset management companies in Southeast Asia.
