System Engineer

We are seeking a highly motivated and technically strong Software System Engineer to support the Day 2 operations, maintenance, and enhancement activities for IT Project.

The candidate will be responsible for ensuring the stability, reliability, security, and operational readiness of mission-critical systems in a 24/7 operational environment.

The ideal candidate should possess strong hands-on experience in DevOps, middleware/platform support, container technologies, CI/CD pipeline management, troubleshooting, deployment automation, and production support operations.

Key Responsibilities

Day 2 Operations & Support

Provide Day 2 operational support for mission-critical applications and platform services.

Perform incident investigation, troubleshooting, root cause analysis (RCA), and issue resolution.

Support production deployment activities, rollback activities, and post-deployment verification.

Monitor system health, application performance, logs, and operational alerts.

Work closely with Day 1 support teams, infrastructure teams, software developers, cybersecurity teams, and project stakeholders.

Support system recovery, disaster recovery (DR), and business continuity activities.

Participate in standby support and after-office-hour support activities when required.

Ensure compliance with operational procedures, governance, and security policies.

CI/CD & DevOps Engineering

Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for:

Source code management and branching strategy

Code Quality Scanning

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

Software Composition Analysis / Dependency Scanning

Container Image Vulnerability Scanning

Automated Build & Packaging

Containerization of applications

Automated Testing Integration

Deployment File Generation

Release Management & Deployment Automation

Container & Platform Management

Deploy, configure, and manage containerized applications using:

Docker

Podman

Kubernetes

React applications

Node.js applications

Spring Boot applications

Perform container troubleshooting, performance tuning, and resource optimization.

Support Kubernetes cluster operations, deployment configurations, secrets management, ingress configuration, and scaling activities.

System Engineering & Administration

Maintain middleware and application platform configurations.

Support Linux and Windows server environments.

Perform system patching, configuration updates, and preventive maintenance activities.

Manage environment configurations across DEV, SIT, UAT, and Production environments.

Support certificate renewal, configuration management, and secure connectivity setup.

Maintain deployment scripts, automation scripts, and operational tools.

Monitoring & Reliability Engineering

Configure and maintain monitoring dashboards, alerts, and health checks.

Monitor system availability, application performance, and resource utilization.

Support log analysis and troubleshooting using centralized logging tools.

Identify proactive improvement opportunities to enhance operational stability and reliability.

Documentation & Compliance

System architecture documentation

Deployment procedures

Operational runbooks

Troubleshooting guides

SOPs and technical reports

Support audit activities, security compliance reviews, and operational assessments.

Qualifications & Experience

Educational Qualification

Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in:

Computer Science

Information Technology

Software Engineering

Computer Engineering

Or related disciplines

Experience Requirements

Software system engineering

DevOps engineering

Application support

Production support

Platform/system administration

Experience supporting enterprise or mission-critical systems is highly preferred.

Experience in government or large-scale enterprise environments will be an advantage.

Technical Skills & Competencies

Mandatory Technical Skills

Linux administration

Application deployment and troubleshooting

CI/CD pipeline implementation

Container technologies and orchestration

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Docker

Podman

Kubernetes

Git

React

Node.js

Spring Boot

Scripting & Automation

Bash

Python

PowerShell

Shell scripting

Monitoring & Observability

eG Enterprise

Prometheus

Grafana

Nagios

Zabbix

Database Knowledge

SQL databases

NoSQL databases

Basic database troubleshooting and query knowledge preferred.

Security & Compliance

Secure system hardening

Cybersecurity best practices

Vulnerability management

Secure CI/CD practices

Certificate and secret management