Trading Systems Platform DevOps Engineer (On-Prem)

Susquehanna International; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare and gym allowances

Marriage leave

Fully stocked kitchen

Annual poker tournament

Matched donations

Job summary

Susquehanna International is seeking a trading technology engineer to support, deploy, and automate a highly distributed on‑premises microservices platform across Asia Pacific. You will work with traders and developers to enhance deployment, monitoring, and reliability using Octopus Deploy, GitLab, Ansible, Python, and PowerShell.

You will lead end‑to‑end site builds, troubleshoot cross‑service communication, and advance observability with Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK while collaborating with

Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• At least 3 years of commercial experience in financial services or a similarly demanding production environment.
• Experience supporting highly distributed, microservices-based systems in production.
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical colleagues and external parties.
• The ability to handle tight deadlines and shifting priorities in a trading-room environment.

Responsibilities

• Become a subject matter expert in our in-house trading systems and the highly distributed microservices platform and architecture they run on.
• Collaborate closely with trading system developers on design, releases, and operational readiness, so new features run reliably in production.
• Scope and build out new sites end-to-end, covering hardware, network, cluster deployment, and monitoring.
• Support, deploy, and troubleshoot microservices across our on-premises Service Fabric/Kubernetes environment.
• Troubleshoot service-to-service communication (gRPC) and multicast data feeds across the platform.
• Automate deployments using Octopus Deploy, GitLab pipelines, and Ansible.
• Automate configuration and routine operational tasks using Python and PowerShell scripting.
• Support, build, and improve our monitoring and observability (metrics, logs, dashboards, and alerting) using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK, so we get early warning of issues in our trading environment.
• Act as the link between traders, in-house technology teams, and external parties (exchanges, vendors), keeping information on system issues and changes flowing.
• Find ways to improve the stability, resilience, and reliability of our platform and trading environment through better use of technology.
• Develop automated system tests to validate releases before they go live.
• Keep technical and user documentation up to date for the systems you support.

Skills

Windows administration

Strong communication

Trading environment

CI/CD

Problem solving

Scripting

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Service Fabric

Kubernetes

Octopus Deploy

GitLab pipelines

Ansible

Python

PowerShell

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK

InfluxDB

Azure Service Fabric

Kafka

MongoDB

Docker

Job description

Susquehanna International is seeking a trading technology engineer to support, deploy, and automate a highly distributed on‑premises microservices platform across Asia Pacific. You will work with traders and developers to enhance deployment, monitoring, and reliability using Octopus Deploy, GitLab, Ansible, Python, and PowerShell.

You will lead end‑to‑end site builds, troubleshoot cross‑service communication, and advance observability with Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK while collaborating with