DevOps Lead

This team is responsible for deployment and runtime systems, CI/CD pipelines, and the core infrastructure supporting a high-performance trading platform. In this role, you will combine hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight to drive operational excellence across a global production environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, high performance, and continuous improvement.
• Define and execute the DevOps strategy and technical roadmap, ensuring system uptime, scalability, and performance across production environments.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, secure, and reliable software delivery.
• Drive automation across deployment workflows, infrastructure provisioning, and monitoring systems to improve efficiency and resilience.
• Ensure production readiness for new systems, features, and infrastructure changes, collaborating closely with engineering and other stakeholders.
• Oversee incident management processes, leading response efforts and implementing measures to prevent recurrence.
• Represent the DevOps function in cross-functional and leadership discussions, aligning team priorities with broader organizational goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Systems Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or a related discipline, including experience leading technical teams.
• Strong experience with modern deployment systems, orchestration tools, and CI/CD platforms.
• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages such as Python, Go, and shell scripting.
• Proven experience defining and managing SLAs/SLOs, with a data-driven approach to reliability and performance improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to lead incident response in high-pressure environments and build resilient systems.
• Experience with real-time or low-latency systems is highly desirable.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders and drive collaboration.
• Passion for mentoring and developing engineering talent.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

This role is based in Hong Kong. We welcome applications from candidates open to relocation, and visa sponsorship is available for qualified applicants.