Senior Cloud SRE & Automation Engineer

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. is seeking a Senior Cloud Services Engineer to design, deploy and operate HKEX cloud infrastructure across multiple environments.

The role collaborates with development, operations and security teams to ensure stability, scalability and security of HKEX cloud platforms. You will build modular Terraform modules, enhance observability with Prometheus, Grafana and ELK, and lead incident response with thorough RCAs to improve reliability and security across HKEX

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years in AWS, Azure, GCP or China Brand Private Cloud.
• Expert-level proficiency in Terraform for managing large-scale infrastructure as code.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Bash for automation tooling.
• Extensive hands-on experience with observability platforms like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.
• Deep understanding of cloud networking and security, including VPC design and CIS compliance standards.
• Familiar with AI-driven data analytics, reporting and anomaly detection to enhance incident triage.
• Proven ability to solve complex problems in distributed systems under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Maintain platform stability and high availability by defining and monitoring observability metrics across cloud environments.
• Lead incident response and conduct RCA to implement long-term preventative measures.
• Develop and govern modular Terraform modules to standardize deployments and reproducibility.
• Identify and reduce manual toil by building automation scripts and tooling.
• Build and manage comprehensive observability stacks to provide deep system health visibility.
• Enforce CIS benchmarks through automated guardrails and security controls.
• Optimize cloud resource utilization and costs using predictive insights and real-time demand.

Skills

Terraform

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP/China)

SRE/DevOps

Observability

Programming (Python/Go/Bash)

Kubernetes

Security & CIS benchmarks

Networking & VPC design

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. is seeking a Senior Cloud Services Engineer to design, deploy and operate HKEX cloud infrastructure across multiple environments.

The role collaborates with development, operations and security teams to ensure stability, scalability and security of HKEX cloud platforms. You will build modular Terraform modules, enhance observability with Prometheus, Grafana and ELK, and lead incident response with thorough RCAs to improve reliability and security across HKEX