The posting
Application Support Engineer – Front Office / Back Office & Market Risk _ Contract
Location: Singapore
Experience: 6 months–2 years of relevant experience
Employment Type: 12-month renewable contract with NTT Singapore Pte. Ltd.
Client Deployment: A leading bank in Singapore
Build Your Career in Banking Technology
Ready to build on your technical experience and develop your career in banking technology?
Join NTT Singapore to support market risk and Value at Risk (VaR) applications for a leading bank in Singapore. You will apply your Linux, SQL and scripting skills to real production issues while gaining exposure to banking applications, risk reporting and business operations.
This opportunity is suitable for early-career professionals with 6 months–2 years of relevant experience, including candidates with substantial, hands-on internship experience in application support or related technical work.
What You Will Gain
- Hands-on experience supporting business-critical banking applications.
- Exposure to market risk, VaR and risk reporting processes.
- Opportunities to develop Linux, SQL, scripting and troubleshooting skills.
- Practical experience in monitoring, incident resolution and application releases.
- Collaboration with banking business users, technical teams and vendors.
Key Responsibilities
Application Support & Troubleshooting
- Provide day-to-day production support and maintain agreed service levels.
- Investigate application errors, system abnormalities and data issues.
- Use Linux commands and SQL queries for troubleshooting and data validation.
- Track incidents, communicate progress and follow issues through to closure.
Monitoring & Automation
- Monitor applications and services to identify issues affecting stability.
- Analyse logs using Elasticsearch to support troubleshooting.
- Write Shell or Python scripts for monitoring, maintenance and operational automation.
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual tasks and recurring production issues.
Incident Management & Release Support
- Coordinate with business users, vendors and technical teams to resolve production incidents, including high-severity issues.
- Participate in root cause analysis and help implement permanent fixes and preventive measures.
- Assist with application deployments through CI/CD pipelines, following release management procedures.
- Maintain support documentation and contribute to continuous improvements in production reliability.
Requirements
- 6 months–2 years of relevant hands-on experience in application support, production support or a related technical role. Relevant internship experience may be considered.
- Working knowledge of Linux, including commands, processes, file systems and troubleshooting.
- Ability to write SQL queries to investigate issues and validate data.
- Practical knowledge of Shell/Bash scripting; Python scripting is an advantage.
- Exposure to application logging and monitoring, preferably using Elasticsearch.
- Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployments and release procedures.
- Good analytical, communication and problem-solving skills.
- Willingness to learn, take ownership of issues and collaborate across teams.
Preferred Experience
- Hands-on work or internship experience supporting front-office or back-office banking applications.
- Understanding of VaR (Value at Risk), market risk and risk reporting.
- Exposure to MariaDB, MongoDB and OpenShift.
Candidates should highlight practical support and troubleshooting experience gained through employment or internships.
Employment Arrangement
You will be employed by NTT Singapore Pte. Ltd. on a 12-month contract and deployed to a leading bank in Singapore, working with the client’s business and technology teams.
Interested candidates are kindly requested to email their CV with their experience to [email protected]
We look forward to your application!



