Senior Cloud | DevOps Engineer

Core Tech Team | Hong Kong

About this role 

We are seeking a seasoned Cloud | DevOps Engineer who excels in high-pressure situations and is passionate about pushing the boundaries of financial technology. The ideal candidate will thrive on quick cycles of prototyping and iterative development, aiming for operational excellence in a dynamic hedge fund environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage mission-critical systems in high-stress situations 

• Be versatile and willing to wear multiple hats as needed 

• Collaborate and communicate effectively with team members 

• Mentor and guide Junior Engineers while fostering best practices 

• Work independently, showcasing a strong sense of ownership and self-drive 

Requirements 

• Able to work independently for a given project around Cloud, DevOps and SRE functions.

• Configure and manage various AWS services like VPC, Transit Gateway, EC2, S3, Athena, Glue, DynamoDB, Lambda, ECS, EKS etc.

• Good understanding of microservices framework, and how an app can be containerised and pushed to cloud.

• Strong DevOps, who can manage entire CI | CD flow in automated fashion, plus manage entire GitHub lifecycle via code.

• Strong expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane

• Ability to design and engineer AWS network services.

• Good understanding of security best practices to protect cloud infrastructure and data

• Experience with GitHub actions, AWS CodePipeline or similar tools.

• Optimize cloud costs and recommend cost-saving measures.

• Collaborate with Developers and Portfolio Managers with Business first mindset.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related field, or equivalent work experience

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in managing and scaling infrastructure

• Be present at the office at least 4 times a week

Nice-to-Haves 

• Integration experience with financial systems such as Bloomberg API (Strong plus)

• Proficiency in at least one JVM language (Java, Kotlin, Scala) 

• Experience with Python or Rust 

• Track record of developing complex distributed systems or building sizable applications from scratch