Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with our development and product teams in our fast-paced delivery environment.
• Build and manage a modern, automated, cloud-native, continuous delivery pipeline.
• Build and manage the cloud resources for our business to use.
• Understand and provide the security, compliance, regulation of banking systems.

Requirements

• Knowledge of technology best practices for building a modern automated DevOps platform.
• Good understanding of technologies and experience in building a highly scalable and fault tolerant system.
• Self-starter, capable of working without direction and able to deliver projects from scratch.
• Experiences in integrating with HKICL and SWIFT such as FPS and CHATS is a definite advantage
• DevOps toolchain experience (GitHub, CircleCI, Artifactory, SonarQube).
• CICD tools hands-on experience (Spinnaker, Ansible, Chef).
• Cloud computing deployment and management experience (AWS (preferred), GCP, Azure) via Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• Container management and container orchestration experience - Docker, Kubernetes.
• Monitoring tools Elastic Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/UNIX and TCP/IP Subnet.
• Strong understanding and practice Agile/Lean projects SCRUM, KANBAN etc.
• Practical knowledge with Git flow, Trunk and GitHub flow branching strategies.
• Strong English communication skills.

Desirable

• Breadth of knowledge - operating systems, networking, distributed computing, cloud computing.
• Certified in cloud computing (professional levels: Solution architect, DevOps engineer, Security, Network).
• Distributed system knowledge applicable to a microservice architecture.