Senior DevOps Engineer

GFT Technologies APAC & GCC; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

GFT Technologies APAC & GCC is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps / Production Operations Engineer to support a next-generation Stablecoin and Digital Assets Platform in Hong Kong. You will work with CTO and stakeholders to ensure production environments are secure, reliable and efficient.

The role emphasizes operational readiness, incident management, platform observability, and collaboration across engineering, security, compliance, and risk teams to drive platform reliability and compliant

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Production Support, SRE, or Platform Operations.
• Experience with critical production systems in financial services.
• Proficient with cloud platforms (AWS preferred).

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day production support across platform environments.
• Monitor platform health, performance, and KPIs.
• Coordinate incident management and root-cause analyses.
• Drive release readiness and deployment coordination.
• Ensure documentation and operational knowledge are up to date.

Job description

Job description:

About GFT

GFT Technologies is an AI-centric global digital transformation company. We design advanced data and AI transformation solutions, modernize technology architectures and develop next-generation core systems for industry leaders in Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing and Robotics. Partnering closely with our clients, we push boundaries to unlock their full potential. With deep industry expertise, cutting-edge technology, and a strong partner ecosystem, GFT delivers responsible AI-centric solutions that combine engineering excellence, high-performance delivery, and cost efficiency. Our team of 12,000+ technology experts operate in 20+ countries worldwide offering career opportunities at the forefront of software innovation.

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps / Production Operations Engineer to support the production operations and operational readiness of a next-generation Stablecoin and Digital Assets Platform.

This role is focused on ensuring the platformoperatessecurely, reliably, and efficiently in production. The successful candidate will work closely with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, compliance, and operations teams to support production environments, improve operational processes, manage incidents, and drive platform reliability.

The role is based in Hong Kong and will work directly with the CTO and key business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Production Operations

• Own day-to-day production support activities across platform environments.

• Monitor platform health, performance, availability, and operational KPIs.

• Coordinate incident management, root cause analysis, and resolution activities.

• Ensuretimelycommunication and escalation of production issues.

Operational Readiness

• Establish and improve production support processes, runbooks, operational procedures, and support models.

• Drive release readiness, change management, and deployment coordination.

• Ensure support teams haveappropriate documentationand operational knowledge.

Platform Reliability & Monitoring

• Implement andmaintainmonitoring, alerting, logging, and observability capabilities.

• Identifyreliability risksand proactivelydrive remediation activities.

• Improve platform resilience, availability, recovery, and operational maturity.

Infrastructure & Cloud Operations

• Support cloud infrastructure and platform environments.

• Managedeploymentpipelines, environment configuration, and infrastructure automation.

• Work closely with engineering teams to improve operational stability.

Security & Compliance

• Support operational controlsrequiredfor a regulated financial platform.

• Participate in audits, security reviews, disaster recovery testing, and operational risk assessments.

• Ensure operational processes align with security and compliance requirements.

Stakeholder Coordination

• Act as a bridge between Engineering, Product, Operations, Compliance, Risk, and external partners.

• Coordinate operational activities across multiple teams.

• Provide clear operational reporting and status updates to management.

(Note: Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not received a response from GFT regarding your application within 10 workdays, please consider that we have decided to proceed with other candidates. We truly appreciate your interest in GFT and thank you for your understanding)

Profile description:

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate:

• Is operationally minded rather than purelydevelopment focused.

• Enjoysrunning and improving production platforms.

• Is comfortable handling incidents and productionissues.

• Takesownership anddrivesissues to resolution.

• Can coordinate across technology, product, operations, compliance, and risk teams.

• Thinks proactively about reliability, resilience, and operational excellence.

Required Experience

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Production Support, SRE, Platform Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering.

• Experience supporting critical production systems in financial services, fintech, payments, trading, digital banking, or regulated environments.

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred).

• Strong experience in monitoring, observability, incident management, and operational support.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities.

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting blockchain, digitalasset,stablecoin, payments, or financial market infrastructure platforms.

• Experience with Kubernetes, containerized environments, and cloud-native architectures.

• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.

• Experience with security operations, audit readiness, and regulated environments.

• Familiarity with operational processes supporting 24x7 services.