SRE/ DevOps Lead- Financial Services

Captar Partners Limited; Hong Kong Island; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Captar Partners Limited is seeking an experienced SRE/DevOps Lead to drive platform reliability for a fintech digital platform across markets. You will operate a containerized platform, implement release strategies, and push automation across environments.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in platform engineering or DevOps, strong Red Hat Linux, containerization, CI/CD, monitoring, and security practices. Fluent English and Chinese are preferred; willingness to support off-hours incidents.

Qualifications

• Degree or higher diploma in computer science, information technology, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or site reliability roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise Linux environments, especially Red Hat.
• Experience with containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, and automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Support and operate a containerized application platform within a distributed environment.
• Enhance software delivery by building and maintaining automated pipelines across environments.
• Implement modern release strategies to ensure stable application rollouts and recovery.
• Drive automation and continuous delivery practices to improve deployment efficiency.
• Maintain system observability with monitoring, logging and alerting for health checks.
• Ensure platform security including hardening, patching and vulnerability management.
• Collaborate with development teams to onboard and deploy applications.
• Respond to and manage production incidents with RCA and improvements.
• Contribute to continuous improvements in platform reliability and scalability.

Skills

Linux administration

Red Hat

Containerization

Kubernetes

CI/CD automation

Infrastructure automation

Networking concepts

Monitoring and observability

Scripting (bash, Python)

Incident response

Security best practices

English and Chinese communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher diploma in Computer Science / IT / related

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Job description

We are working with a fintechcompany supporting a large-scale, business-critical digital platform across multiple markets. They are looking for an experienced SRE/ DevOps Lead to join their technology team.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and operate a containerized application platform within a distributed environment.
• Enhance software delivery processes by building and maintaining automated pipelines and deployment workflows across multiple environments.
• Implement modern release strategies to ensure stable and controlled application rollouts and recovery.
• Drive automation and continuous delivery practices to improve deployment efficiency and consistency.
• Maintain system observability, including monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities to ensure platform health and early issue detection.
• Ensure platform security, including system hardening, patching, and vulnerability management.
• Work closely with development and engineering teams to support application onboarding and deployment.
• Respond to and manage production incidents, including investigation, root cause analysis, and follow-up improvements.
• Contribute to ongoing improvements in platform reliability, scalability, and operational standards.

Requirements

• Degree or Higher Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• At least 5 years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or site reliability roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise Linux environments, particularly Red Hat-based platforms (mandatory).
• Solid experience with containerization and orchestration concepts in production environments.
• Experience in CI/CD practices and automation tools within modern software delivery environments.
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools.
• Good understanding of networking concepts and distributed systems architecture.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and system observability practices.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming for automation tasks.
• Exposure to system infrastructure components such as databases, operating systems, virtualization, and container technologies.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex system issues.
• Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements in enterprise environments.
• Relevant certifications and knowledge of industry standards are advantageous.
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams.
• Proficiency in English and Chinese (spoken and written).
• Willingness to support off-hours incident handling when required.

We apologies that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.