Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Shift Pattern: Standard 40 Hour Week (United Kingdom) Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Corporate Grade: D - Assistant Vice President Reporting Line: (UK Division) Information Technology Location: UK-London Worker Type: Permanent

This role is a critical part of the Development Tooling team, responsible for creating and maintaining the internal tools and systems that developers use to build, test, and deploy software more efficiently. The main goal is to improve developer productivity and experience by streamlining workflows, automating repetitive tasks, and ensuring that development environments are fast, reliable, and easy to use. Act as a bridge between development and infrastructure teams, helping standardise processes, enforce best practices, and optimise performance across the software development lifecycle. An Engineer supporting the strategic roadmap of modernising the toolset at the LME. This is a high-impact role for a candidate who is passionate about engineering excellence, working directly with development and operations teams to create solutions and enabling tangible value through technology. This role is an end-to-end engineering role which includes solution design, implementation, deployment, and support in a regulated corporate (Prod) environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters across on-prem environments.
• Develop and maintain Python scripts and automation tools for infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and deployment.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Ansible, Artifactory, Bitbucket, Bamboo, GitLab CI, and ArgoCD.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, Helm, or similar tools.
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues across the stack.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure smooth application delivery and operations.
• Ensure security, compliance, and best practices are followed in infrastructure and deployment processes.
• Lead incident analysis and root cause investigations for data-related issues, implementing improvements to enhance system stability and performance.
• Act as a liaison between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clear and effective communication of project status, risks, and requirements.
• Ensure all technical documentation is accurate, up-date, and accessible to relevant stakeholders.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

Academic and Professional Qualifications Required

Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a closely related field. Advantageous: Certifications or substantial hands-on experience with modern Development pipeline tools Desirable: Familiarity with financial services regulatory frameworks and best practices for data governance.

Required Knowledge and Level of Experience

Experience: Minimum 8 years expertise in software development workflows, infrastructure automation, and developer experience. Programming Skills: proficient in scripting like Python bash and PowerShell Skills set and Core Competencies Required for Role: Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (self-managed). Proficiency in Python for scripting and automation. Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. Experience with Terraform, Helm, or other IaC tools. Experienced with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana). Experience with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration. Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset.

Personal Qualities

Proactivity: Demonstrates a passion for continuous learning, improvement, and staying current with industry trends. Independent and dependable: Work well under pressure and within cross-functional teams. Collaboration: Works effectively across departments and disciplines, building strong relationships with both technology and business colleagues. Outcome-Driven: Motivated by delivering real-world outcomes, improving enterprise value, and supporting business strategy. Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking: Proactively identify inefficiencies and propose effective, scalable solutions.

Company Overview

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is a publicly-traded company (HKEX Stock Code:388) and one of the world's leading global exchange groups, offering a range of equity, derivative, commodity, fixed income and other financial markets, products and services, including the London Metals Exchange. As a superconnector and gateway between East and West, HKEX facilitates the two-way flow of capital, ideas and dialogue between China and the rest of world, through its pioneering Connect schemes, increasingly diversified product ecosystem and its deep, liquid and international markets. HKEX is a purpose-led organisation which, across its business and through the work of HKEX Foundation, seeks to connect, promote and progress its markets and the communities it supports for the prosperity of all. Discover the latest career opportunities and programmes at HKEX. Unauthorised access or use is prohibited. HKEX reserves the right to take appropriate action against any offenders.