Senior DevOps Lead for Cloud, CI/CD & Trading Platforms

Ascendion; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascendion is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to support infrastructure automation, cloud platform engineering and operational resilience for mission-critical Front Office Trading systems. You will enable reliable software delivery and scalable infrastructure.

Responsibilities include building CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform, Kubernetes and Docker, cloud across AWS/Azure, high availability, observability, incident response, FinOps collaboration with global teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of DevOps, cloud or platform engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and/or MS Azure.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, IAM, security and secrets management.
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Splunk).
• Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, incident management and root-cause analysis.
• Experience with production reliability and cloud cost optimisation.
• Experience in managing or supporting infra for front office trading platforms.
• Strong collaboration across engineering, architecture and SRE teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and enhance cloud infrastructure and DevOps automation.
• Build, maintain and optimise CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform.
• Manage container-based environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Support cloud infrastructure across AWS and/or MS Azure.
• Improve system reliability, high availability, monitoring and disaster recovery.
• Implement observability solutions across logging, metrics, tracing and alerting.
• Support incident management, root-cause analysis and production engineering.
• Strengthen infrastructure security, IAM and secrets management practices.
• Contribute to cloud cost optimisation and FinOps initiatives.
• Collaborate with global engineering, architecture and SRE teams.

Skills

DevOps experience

AWS/Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

IAM & security

Observability tools

HA & DR

FinOps

Trading platforms

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Splunk

Job description

Ascendion is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to support infrastructure automation, cloud platform engineering and operational resilience for mission-critical Front Office Trading systems. You will enable reliable software delivery and scalable infrastructure.

Responsibilities include building CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform, Kubernetes and Docker, cloud across AWS/Azure, high availability, observability, incident response, FinOps collaboration with global teams.