DevOps Engineer - International FinTech Platform

Company Overview Our client is the first industry-supported financial network for private banks and wealth management firms, providing access to issuers of structured products. Their transaction network enables buy-side firms to price and place orders for these products. Our client is seeking a DevOps Engineer to enhance their DevOps and automation practices. Their application suite is built natively on AWS, utilizing top-tier design patterns (microservice architecture, containerized, orchestrated by Kubernetes). This role offers hands-on experience with an established financial technology firm and an opportunity to collaborate with a dynamic team across various disciplines. You will play a key role in developing and maintaining our DevOps practices, including a microservice automation framework and overseeing infrastructure as code on AWS. You will report directly to the Head of DevOps & Infrastructure. The Candidate You have prior experience as a Java developer working with service-based architecture. You are familiar with microservice architecture. You excel in designing and implementing practices surrounding CI, CD, as well as automated build, testing, deployment, and monitoring. You have experience working with cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities Further enhance our DevOps practice and automation framework for Java services. Take ownership of the AWS infrastructure agenda, including monitoring, alerting, and evolution. Improve scalability, monitoring, alerting, and resiliency. Collaborate closely with the Java development team on automation topics and with the support team for infrastructure topics. Required Skills At least 3 years of experience in a DevOps role. Prior experience building and managing services in AWS or similar high-performance cloud environments. Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Pulumi or Terraform. Proficiency in programming languages like Go and Python. Strong knowledge of containerization and orchestration. Experience maintaining and working with Kubernetes and EKS. Ability to manage and enhance CI/CD tools such as Jenkins. Experience using configuration management tools (Salt, Ansible, Puppet). Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential. Experience working and administrating Linux environments. Shell scripting experience is a plus. AWS certification is a plus. Location This is a full-time position based in Central, Hong Kong.