Devops Lead - Eclipse Trading

Eclipse Options (HK) Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully stocked kitchen

Discretionary bonus

Training & development

Work-life balance

Job summary

Eclipse Trading is seeking an experienced Team Lead to steer the DevOps function for its global trading platform. The role focuses on producing reliable production environments, leading CI/CD implementations, and guiding automation across engineering, trading, and infrastructure teams.

The successful candidate will mentor engineers, drive strategic roadmaps, and ensure production readiness for new exchanges and strategies. Onsite in Hong Kong or Sydney with a dynamic, collaborative culture.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps, Systems Engineering or similar role with leadership experience.
• University degree in CS/Engineering or related field.
• Experience leading operations in real-time or low-latency environments.
• Proficiency with Python, Golang and shell scripting; strong CI/CD background.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and train DevOps engineers to high performance.
• Drive DevOps strategy, roadmap, and execution for global trading production environment.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for fast, secure software delivery.
• Lead automation, deployment workflows, and monitoring improvements.
• Ensure production readiness for new exchanges, strategies, and infra changes.

Skills

Python

Golang

Shell scripting

SRE

Incident response

Cross-functional collaboration

English fluency

Education

University Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Container orchestration

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.

This is an onsite role located in Hong Kong or Sydney.

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.

What you offer

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.

What we offer

Dynamic and collaborative work environment

Opportunity to contribute directly to the bottom line

Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities

A flat management structure, where everyone's voice is valued

Work life balance within a multi-cultural environment

Fully stocked kitchen for breakfast and lunch

Attractive benefits package with discretionary bonus

Eclipse Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm. Founded in 2007, we have over 110 employees across 4 office locations - Hong Kong (our HQ), Sydney, Shanghai and Chicago. Our trading expertise and strategies are deployed across several markets globally, focusing on various products including equity derivatives, delta one, ETFs, commodity derivatives, and cryptocurrency. Technology is inextricably linked to our trading strategies, creating an environment powered by intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and innovation.

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