Windows Engineer - HFT

Our client is a leading global quantitative trading and technology-driven financial firm with operations across major financial centres worldwide. The business leverages advanced technology, data, and engineering to support highly demanding, business-critical platforms operating at scale.

The firm fosters a collaborative and intellectually curious environment, bringing together technology, infrastructure, and engineering teams to solve complex technical challenges. Innovation, reliability, and continuous improvement are central to its culture.



Key Responsibilities

• Manage the complete server lifecycle, including deployment, maintenance, patching, upgrades, and decommissioning of physical and virtual servers.
• Maintain and improve enterprise Windows server infrastructure to ensure stability, performance, and security.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues spanning operating systems, networking, storage, and hardware components.
• Develop and enhance automation solutions to streamline provisioning, administration, and operational support.
• Build and maintain monitoring solutions, dashboards, and alerting frameworks to improve system visibility.
• Administer and support virtual desktop and application delivery platforms.
• Collaborate with software engineering and production teams to support application deployments and operational readiness.
• Contribute to infrastructure improvement initiatives focused on scalability, resilience, and operational excellence.

Key Requirements

• Strong experience administering Microsoft Windows Server environments in enterprise settings.
• Deep knowledge of Active Directory, Group Policy, Kerberos, Windows Services, scheduled tasks, and WinRM.
• Advanced PowerShell scripting skills, including automation, remoting, module development, and performance optimization.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, VLANs, routing, and multicast technologies.
• Experience managing virtual infrastructure platforms and virtual machine environments.
• Experience supporting Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops or comparable virtual application delivery technologies.
• Knowledge of access control models, RBAC, permissions management, and security best practices.
• Strong troubleshooting skills with tools such as Sysinternals, Wireshark, Resource Monitor, or equivalent diagnostics platforms.
• Experience supporting enterprise server hardware, storage systems, RAID configurations, and related technologies.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience.

Nice to Have

• Experience with infrastructure monitoring platforms such as Nagios or similar tools.
• Exposure to CI/CD methodologies and deployment platforms such as Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, TeamCity, or related technologies.
• Experience within low-latency, trading, financial services, or other highly available production environments.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and automation best practices.

Location & Work Setup

• Hong Kong
• Onsite or hybrid working model, depending on business requirements

Why Join

• Work in a highly technical environment where infrastructure plays a critical role in business success.
• Gain exposure to complex, large-scale production systems and cutting-edge technology.
• Partner with experienced engineers, developers, and infrastructure specialists globally.
• Opportunity to drive automation, innovation, and operational improvements with visible business impact.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package with strong opportunities for professional growth.