My client is a privately-held, global quantitative trading firm trading its own capital with over 3,200 employees across 17+ offices worldwide. They are a world-leading options market maker and liquidity provider, systematically trading millions of transactions daily across options, equities, ETFs, fixed income, FX, commodities, and cryptocurrencies. Their edge is driven by a fully integrated model where quantitative researchers and technologists build low-latency systems and apply machine learning directly to trading strategies

Role Overview

We are seeking aSenior DevOps / SRE Engineer to join the EOT (Execution & Order Management Technology) team in Hong Kong. This is the first DevOps hire on the team in Hong Kong, reporting to the team lead in HK, with the remaining 5 team members based in Sydney. This is a senior individual contributor role (VP-level equivalent) with the ability to technically lead, though it is not a people management role. The focus is on deployments, automation, developer experience, and tooling—not traditional trade support. You will be building tooling and CI/CD pipelines using Python, with a strong emphasis on improving the developer experience and infrastructure reliability.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
2. Improve developer experience and infrastructure reliability.
3. Manage and monitor infrastructure across Linux and Windows environments.
4. Work with a broad technology stack including Linux, Windows, Nagios, Grafana, Octopus, Prometheus, MongoDB, MySQL, and Kafka.
5. Collaborate with development teams to streamline deployment workflows.
6. Ensure high availability and performance of trading infrastructure.

Required Skills & Experience:

1. Experience: Senior-level DevOps / SRE experience, able to technically lead without formal management responsibilities.
2. Core Language: Strong Python skills (above support level, not necessarily expert developer level) for building tooling and automation.
3. CI/CD & Automation: Deep experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
4. Technology Stack: Linux (essential); Windows experience is a plus (comfortable picking up PowerShell on the job).
5. Monitoring: Experience with Nagios, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar.
6. Databases: Experience with MongoDB, MySQL, or similar.
7. Messaging: Exposure to Kafka or similar streaming platforms.
8. Industry: Prior finance experience is essential—ideally in a trading or investment banking environment.
9. Mindset: Focused on developer experience, tooling, and automation rather than pure trade support.

Please send your CV to Sarah Fan at sarah.fan@ashford-benjamin.com, or call +852 2315 9512 for a confidential discussion.