Senior DevOps Engineer
Summary
Senior DevOps engineer on Balyasny Asset Management's Platform Engineering team in Hong Kong, building and maintaining internal platforms for a global hedge fund — CI/CD pipelines, source control, Kubernetes, and observability across AWS and on-prem environments, with on-call and incident-response duties.
Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a diversified global investment firm founded in 2001 by Dmitry Balyasny, Scott Schroeder, and Taylor O'Malley. With over $38 billion in assets under management, BAM employs more than 2,000 people across 23 offices in the U.S. and Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The firm’s investment teams span five strategies, including Equities Long/Short, Fixed Income & Macro, Commodities, Multi-Asset Arbitrage, and Systematic. Balyasny’s mission is to deliver to its investors absolute, uncorrelated returns in all market environments.
Platform Engineering owns the end-to-end experience of how engineers, investment teams and researchers at Balyasny build, test, ship and run software at scale – from source control and authentication systems that underpin our live trading environments, to the platforms that keep tens of thousands of builds, applications and tasks running reliably across compute providers, and developer acceleration tooling that deeply integrates across engineering workflows.
The primary focus of this role is to design, build and maintain platforms for engineers within the business – from scalable source controls systems through to CICD infrastructure that execute millions of builds per year. You will work with portfolio management, technology, data and business teams to deliver scalable, resilient and automated solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and automate deployment pipelinesand operational processes to improve efficiency, reliability, and developer autonomy.
- Champion SRE and DevOps best practices—including observability, automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code—across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines; write code for infrastructure optimization; manage operations, including on-call duties, Kubernetes, and training.
- Collaborate with development teamsto enhance service stability, scalability, and fault tolerance through mentoring, documentation, and hands‑on support.
- Participate in on-call rotationand incident response, sharing responsibility for production reliability.
To be considered a good fit, you must have:
- 7+ years of hands‑on experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering roles within complex, distributed systems environments.
- Strong software engineering skills with Python or GoLang.
- Deep expertise with CI/CD platforms and automation of SDLC processes (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy).
- Experience with critical artifacts infrastructure that serve millions of requests per day.
- Experience architecting and implementing testable, scalable, and reliable software and infrastructure solutions.
- Deep expertise with containers and Kubernetes, including application management and orchestration.
- Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs.
- Proficiency with configuration/infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Kubernetes Operators).
- Experience working with and maintaining observability solutions.
- Experience working with both cloud (AWS preferred) and on-premises hosting platforms.