Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong

DevOps Lead

 Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Team Lead to lead the DevOps team. Along with the deployment and runtime systems, the DevOps team is also responsible for the CI/CD pipelines and the core infrastructure of the Trading platform. 

As a Team Lead, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping how we manage our production environment globally — combining hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight to drive operational excellence.

Responsibilities and Duties:

  • Lead, mentor, and train DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, high performance, and continuous learning.
  • Drive the DevOps strategy, technical roadmap and execution across our global trading production environment, ensuring system uptime, scalability, and performance.
  • Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure rapid, secure, and reliable software delivery.
  • Lead improvements in automation, deployment workflows, and monitoring systems, reducing manual effort and increasing system robustness and agility.
  • Ensure production readiness for new exchanges, trading strategies, and
    infrastructure changes, coordinating across development, trading, and
    infrastructure teams.
  • Represent the team in leadership forums, advocating for production priorities, and aligning team objectives with broader business goals.

Qualifications:

  • University Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • 10+ years work experience in a DevOps, Systems Engineering or similar role and proven success leading technical operations, SRE, or production engineering teams in real-time or low-latency environments.
  • Modern deployment system and orchestration experience and associated CI/CD tooling.
  • Strong development skills in Python, Golang and shell scripting.
  • Demonstrated experience defining and managing SLAs/SLOs, with a data-driven approach to improving reliability and performance.
  • Comfortable leading incident response in high-pressure scenarios and building systems that prevent recurrence.
  • Exposure to high-frequency trading or low-latency financial systems is a strong plus.
  • Skilled communicator who can align business and technical stakeholders, provide clarity under pressure, and drive cross-functional collaboration.
  • Passionate about coaching, developing, and retaining top engineering talent. 
  • Fluency in written and spoken English.
  Required Skills:

Readiness Development Clarity Oversight Shell Scripting Operational Excellence Pipelines Operations Collaboration Trading Scalability CI/CD Accountability Reliability DevOps Coaching Infrastructure Automation Strategy Computer Science Pressure Software Design Engineering Business Python Science English Leadership