Platform Ops Lead: CI/CD, Cloud & Automation

Cathay Pacific Group; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,300,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Cathay Pacific is seeking an experienced Platform Ops Lead to guide DevOps CI/CD platforms across web and mobile products, ensuring security, scalability and reliability.

You will mentor engineers, manage platform portfolios, and partner with vendors to optimize cost with FinOps practices and 24/7 readiness. This role requires strong collaboration with application teams and a strategic mindset to drive platform excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years IT experience, including at least 5 years in IT infrastructure roles.
• Proven experience in complex enterprise IT infrastructure environments.
• Strong ability to design solutions and make technical decisions with minimal supervision.
• Experience influencing stakeholders and building relationships at senior levels.
• Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD and Agile/Lean methodologies.
• Hands‑on knowledge of cloud operations, DevOps, DevSecOps, and FinOps practices.
• Broad exposure to cloud platforms (Azure and/or AWS), container platforms, microservices, and Infrastructure as Code.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate and enhance automation, CI/CD and self‑healing hybrid cloud platforms for high availability and scalable infrastructure services.
• Maintain observability platform stability and self‑service automations (Elastic Stack).
• Ensure reliable day‑to‑day operations of DevOps platforms including CI/CD, test automation, environment config and version control.
• Partner with application teams to translate requirements into a Platform Ops service catalogue.
• Govern base images, libraries, CI/CD pipelines and container platforms against security and quality standards.
• Evaluate, retire and replace obsolete CI/CD toolsets to keep solutions market‑aligned.
• Enable secure segregation of duties through tailored access controls across DevOps toolsets.
• Apply FinOps to optimise cloud and platform costs at scale.
• Lead, mentor and support platform engineers in daily ops and career development.
• Communicate infrastructure designs, risks and progress clearly to PMs, stakeholders, vendors, and partners.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Agile/Lean

Cloud operations

FinOps

Influencing stakeholders

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or above in IT/CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Azure

AWS

Container platforms

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Cathay Pacific is seeking an experienced Platform Ops Lead to guide DevOps CI/CD platforms across web and mobile products, ensuring security, scalability and reliability.

You will mentor engineers, manage platform portfolios, and partner with vendors to optimize cost with FinOps practices and 24/7 readiness. This role requires strong collaboration with application teams and a strategic mindset to drive platform excellence.