DevOps Engineering Lead - Global Trading Firm - Hong Kong
Summary
Lead DevOps/SRE team to design CI/CD pipelines and automate deployments for a global trading firm’s low-latency systems, ensuring uptime and performance during market hours.
Our client, a global trading firm, is actively seeking a DevOps Engineering Lead to join their team in Hong Kong. The successful candidate will sit between software development, quantitative research, and core infrastructure. You will oversee CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and optimize performance for mission‑critical trading systems to ensure minimal latency and maximum uptime during market hours.
The role:
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure rapid, secure, and reliable software delivery.
- Manage infrastructure provisioning (IaC) and configuration across both cloud (AWS/GCP) and on‑premise data centers.
- Define and manage SLAs/SLOs. Implement monitoring, alerting, and dashboards to proactively track performance and ensure system resilience.
- Lead high‑pressure incident response efforts, conduct root cause analysis, and build systems that prevent recurrence.
- Partner directly with Quants, Traders, and Software Engineers to align technical roadmaps with the firm's business objectives and trading goals.
- Mentor and guide a team of DevOps/SRE engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, high‑performance, and accountability.
What you offer:
- 8+ years of work experience in DevOps, Systems Engineering, or SRE, with a proven track record leading technical teams. Candidates from an investment banking or trading firm background is preferred.
- Strong programming/scripting abilities in Python, Go, Shell.
- Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform).
- Deep experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Solid understanding of Linux environments, networking fundamentals, and kernel-level performance tuning.
- Expertise with observability and logging stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
- Ability to provide clarity and decisive leadership under pressure, coupled with excellent verbal and written communication skills.