VP, Cloud Operations - Platform Resilience & IaC

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX); Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 2,000,000 - 3,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited is seeking an experienced technology leader to join Cloud Platform Services as Vice President, Cloud Operations. You will oversee production operations across AWS, Alibaba Cloud and GCP, ensuring stable, secure, resilient and compliant platforms that support HKEX’s business-critical applications.

You will drive automation and Infrastructure-as-Code, partner with Cloud Architecture, Cloud Engineering and security teams, manage incidents and changes, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level degree in CS or related field; relevant certifications are a plus.
• Substantial experience in cloud infrastructure, technology operations, production support, and leadership.
• Proven production support for enterprise cloud platforms with high availability, security and recovery.
• Strong knowledge of incident, change, capacity, configuration and lifecycle management.
• Hands-on understanding of IaC, Terraform, CI/CD, cloud automation and policy-as-code.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Cloud Operations team and ensure day-to-day operation of cloud platforms and services.
• Maintain availability, performance, security and resilience of cloud environments for critical apps.
• Establish observability: monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards and proactive degradation detection.
• Manage capacity, demand forecasting, quotas and capacity planning for key workloads.
• Oversee platform lifecycle: patches, upgrades, obsolescence, end-of-support risks.
• Lead major incident and problem management with root-cause analysis and preventive actions.
• Ensure change, release and production-readiness controls for new cloud services.
• Ensure operations comply with HKEX standards, security requirements and regulatory needs.
• Oversee backup, DR and resilience; run regular recovery and failover exercises.
• Drive IaC adoption and automation; partner with Cloud Engineering to develop core capabilities.
• Manage cloud vendors and providers; monitor service performance and issue resolution.
• Provide clear management reporting on service health, incidents, capacity, patching and compliance.
• Develop team capabilities and a culture of ownership, risk awareness and continuous improvement.

Skills

Cloud operations

Leadership

SRE practices

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Incident management

Stakeholder mgmt

Kubernetes

Security fundamentals

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

AWS

Alibaba Cloud

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited is seeking an experienced technology leader to join Cloud Platform Services as Vice President, Cloud Operations. You will oversee production operations across AWS, Alibaba Cloud and GCP, ensuring stable, secure, resilient and compliant platforms that support HKEX’s business-critical applications.

You will drive automation and Infrastructure-as-Code, partner with Cloud Architecture, Cloud Engineering and security teams, manage incidents and changes, and