Technical Lead, DevOps & Platform - Start Up
Summary
Leads DevOps & platform engineering for a fast-growing luxury business in Hong Kong, building its in-house IT team alongside vendors. Audits and migrates vendor architecture in-house, runs AWS/hybrid multicloud infrastructure, automates CI/CD with container orchestration, manages production NoSQL databases, and integrates payment and logistics providers.
Our client is a fast-growing Luxury business, they are looking for a Technical Lead for DevOps & Platform to build their in house IT team alongside with Vendor. As the brand accelerates its expansion, they are seeking a highly motivated professional with a start up mindset and proactiveness to take the lead in scaling their infrastructure and engineering capabilities.
Report to the General Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Collaborate directly with existing vendor partners to audit, document, and transition platform architecture, codebase dependencies, and operational logic in house.
- Build, architect, and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure and modern hybrid hosting environments while establishing robust server hardening and security controls
- Design, maintain, and scale multi cloud and hybrid environments while managing server hardening, access controls, and security patching.
- Build and maintain automated build, test, and release workflows across staging and production environments using container orchestration tools.
- Oversee production database management including backups, performance tuning, and data integrity while supporting application release workflows for mobile app stores.
- Design and maintain third party integrations with payment gateways and logistics providers while providing practical input on system enhancements and architectural decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering, with proven ownership of production environments.
- Hands on experience managing and deploying applications on major cloud platforms and edge services.
- Strong proficiency with containerization and automated release pipelines.
- Practical experience managing NoSQL databases in production, including backups, replication, and performance monitoring.
- Strong coordination and communication skills.
- Good commands in Chinese & English is required