About the Role
You will sit at the heart of GIC’s Front Office, keeping the mission-critical trading and investment platforms, our portfolio managers, traders, and analysts depend on running flawlessly. As a hands-on Production Support Engineer (SRE), you will be empowered to operate at the top of your game—providing strategic partnership and innovative, technology-driven solutions that advance GIC’s vision of being a tech-driven, global, long-term investment firm. This is a role for a true go-getter who thrives under pressure, takes ownership, and turns high-stakes incidents into opportunities to strengthen our resilience.
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on L1 and L2 support in a follow-the-sun model for Front Office applications and platforms spanning Portfolio Management, Order and Execution Management (OMS/EMS), Trading Lifecycle, Investment Workflows, and Research and Analytics.
- Own the health, stability, and performance of the production environment using modern observability tools and dashboards; proactively detect and pre-empt issues before they impact trading.
- Respond to, triage, and drive production incidents to resolution with minimal business impact, staying calm and decisive under pressure.
- Document incidents and conduct thorough root-cause analysis and follow-up.
- Act as the central point of coordination during incidents—clearly communicating status, impact, and next steps to Front Office stakeholders, technology teams, and senior management across regions and time zones.
- Review and execute system upgrades and deployments, ensuring minimal risk and disruption to production services.
- Partner closely with Front Office end-users and stakeholders, responding to queries and resolving issues with urgency and a service-first mindset.
- Collaborate with Solution Providers and vendor support teams to troubleshoot, mitigate, and resolve issues related to third-party products.
- Investigate production issues end-to-end and engage relevant teams for mitigation and strategic solutions.
- Drive system failover, disaster recovery, and resiliency processes to safeguard business continuity.
- Identify opportunities to apply automation, AI frameworks, and agentic AI tooling to reduce toil, accelerate diagnostics, and continuously improve the efficiency and reliability of application support.
- Maintain comprehensive run books, incident resolutions, and system configuration documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in production/application support, Site Reliability Engineering, or system administration—ideally supporting Front Office or trading platforms.
- A self-starting go-getter who takes ownership, works calmly and effectively under pressure, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
- Outstanding coordination, communication, and interpersonal skills—able to bridge technical teams and Front Office business users with clarity and confidence.
- A team-oriented mindset with a strong streak of independence and accountability.
- Stellar problem-solving and analytical skills, with sharp attention to detail and the ability to multitask across competing priorities.
Skills
- AWS cloud
- Kubernetes
- Modern AI frameworks and tools, including agentic AI, applied to operations, automation, and diagnostics
- Monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Splunk)
- Database management systems (e.g., MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle)
- Scripting (e.g., Python, Bash)
- Trading workflows including OMS (e.g., BlackRock Aladdin) and EMS
- Data analytics and TCA reporting
- Business Intelligence tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Databricks)
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 - $190,000
Benefits
- Bonus potential
About the Company
- GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds.
- With over 2,000 employees across 11 locations around the world, we invest in more than 40 countries globally across asset classes and businesses.
- Working at GIC gives you exposure to an extraordinary network of the world’s industry leaders.
- As a leading global long-term investor, we Work at the Point of Impact for Singapore’s financial future, and the communities we invest in worldwide.
- Technology Group: We experiment, design, and lead a 24×7 global business where we support core capabilities in asset management, trading, investment operations, and risk management.
- We deliver secure, reliable, and integrated solutions, and provide insights on new, and emerging technologies.
- Investment Technology: The Investment Technology group builds and enhances technology that supports the firm’s end-to-end investment lifecycle.
- It brings together capabilities across analytics, deal workflow, trading, execution, and operations to enable consistent, efficient, and data-driven investment processes.
- Through modern, scalable, and secure platforms, the group empowers investment teams with integrated tools that drive insight, automation, and operational excellence across all asset classes.
- We need to be forward-looking to attract the right people to help us become the Leading Global Long-term Investor.
- Join our ambitious, agile, and diverse teams - be empowered to push boundaries and pursue innovative ideas, share your views, and be heard.
- Be anchored on our PRIME Values: Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence, which guides us in how we make our day-to-day decisions.
- We strive to inspire. To make an impact.
- Our compensation philosophy reflects several principles. We strive to provide a competitive compensation package to attract and retain talent globally.
- We pay for performance, and reward sustainable results.
Equal Opportunity
- As an employer, we passionately believe every individual brings with them unique diversity of thought and perspectives to meaningfully enrich perspectives of GIC teams to drive competitive performance.
- An inclusive environment yields exceptional contribution.
