DevOps Lead - Global Trading Firm - Hong Kong
Core
Lead DevOps practices for reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of low-latency trading and infrastructure platforms.
Role type
Senior DevOps Lead (Financial Services)
Builds
Trading infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, and secure cloud/on-prem environments.
Domain
Financial Services / Low-latency Trading Systems
Required skills
Cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), Linux, Networking, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), CI/CD automation, Observability (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK/OpenTelemetry), Scripting (Python/Bash/Go), Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), Security (IAM/Secrets/TLS), Incident Management.
Preferred skills
Experience leading DevOps/SRE in financial services, Latency-sensitive system optimization, Capacity planning, Mentorship.
Responsibilities
Lead DevOps function across infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and incident management; Own deployment pipelines and release processes; Drive performance and reliability improvements for low-latency services; Implement and manage monitoring/alerting, dashboards, and SLO/SLI practices; Manage infrastructure provisioning and configuration (IaC); Partner with engineering to harden systems; Lead capacity planning and scaling strategies; Establish operational runbooks and testing strategies; Mentor and guide engineers.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities