Test Environment Engineer UNIX & Middleware (Manager/AVP)

Who We Are

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.

Why Join

Imagine being part of a team that ensures the smooth operation of OCBC's systems and applications, providing a seamless experience for our customers. As a Testing Engineer, you'll play a critical role in identifying and resolving issues, contributing to the bank's reputation for reliability and trustworthiness.

How you succeed

The Test Environment Engineer (UNIX & Middleware) is responsible for ensuring the availability, stability, and operational readiness of test environments supporting enterprise and banking applications. The role supports testing activities by providing UNIX and middleware expertise, proactive environment management, cross‑team coordination, and continuous operational improvement. The role additionally provides governance oversight, risk management, and strategic direction for test environment services.

What you do

• Manage end‑to‑end test environment activities including tracking, reviewing, monitoring, and resolving environment‑related issues and requirements.
• Provide Level 1 operational support and troubleshooting for UNIX and middleware components to ensure test environments are operationally ready.
• Own test environment availability and ensure timely resolution or escalation of incidents in accordance with service expectations.
• Prepare and disseminate daily test environment status reports to stakeholders.
• Proactively identify recurring environment issues and recommend improvement initiatives such as capacity planning, housekeeping, and automation of system health checks.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, application, database, vendor, and other support teams to resolve environment‑related issues.
• Monitor batch jobs, scheduled tasks, and message‑driven processes in test environments.
• Communicate planned and unplanned test environment downtime to all relevant stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Maintain accurate environment documentation, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and operational runbooks.
• Support environment configuration changes, restarts, validation, and readiness activities during testing cycles.
• Assist application teams in diagnosing and resolving integration and connectivity issues across UNIX, middleware, and database layers.
• Ensure compliance with internal IT controls, operational standards, and regulatory requirements.
  
  

Who you are

Education

• Diploma or Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or an equivalent technical discipline.
  
  

Technical Experience

• Minimum 3 years of hands‑on experience supporting middleware technologies, including but not limited to: IBM MQ/WebLogic/WebSphere/JBoss/Apache/Connect:Direct/SSH Tectia/API/SOAP UI/cron/Control‑M
• Minimum 3 years of UNIX experience (RHEL, AIX, Solaris, or other Linux distributions).
• Strong scripting or development experience in one or more of the following: Bash/Shell/Perl/Python/Java/JSON/XML/SOAP
  
  

Knowledge & Competencies

• Good understanding of financial services systems and generic banking application architecture.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities concurrently in a fast‑paced environment.
• Understanding of middleware interactions across operating systems, applications, and databases.
• Experience monitoring middleware services, application logs, batch jobs, and message queues.
• Familiarity with environment change, restart, and validation activities during test cycles.
• Proactive risk identification and mitigation mindset.
  
  

Soft Skills & Behaviours

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders across regional teams.
• Experience using collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams, Excel, and Word.
• Strong teamwork and knowledge‑sharing attitude.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross‑functional teams.
  
  

Additional Expectations

• Provide strategic oversight and governance for test environment services.
• Drive standardisation, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage risks related to environment availability, capacity, and operational readiness.
• Able to work independently in a controlled and regulated environment.
• Detail oriented with strong governance mindset.
• Serve as an escalation point when major incidents and stakeholder issues arises.
  
  

Working Relationships

• Application Development/Testing Teams
• Infrastructure/Platform Teams
• Database and Middleware Support
• Vendors/Service Providers
• Regional Technology Stakeholders
  
  

Who we are

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.

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.