Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Summary
About GFT
GFT Technologies is an AI-centric global digital transformation company. We design advanced data and AI transformation solutions modernize technology architectures and develop next-generation core systems for industry leaders in Banking Insurance Manufacturing and Robotics. Partnering closely with our clients we push boundaries to unlock their full potential. With deep industry expertise cutting-edge technology and a strong partner ecosystem GFT delivers responsible AI-centric solutions that combine engineering excellence high-performance delivery and cost efficiency. Our team of 12000 technology experts operate in 20 countries worldwide offering career opportunities at the forefront of software innovation.
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps / Production Operations Engineer to support the production operations and operational readiness of a next-generation Stablecoin and Digital Assets Platform.
This role is focused on ensuring the platformoperatessecurely reliably and efficiently in production. The successful candidate will work closely with product engineering infrastructure security compliance and operations teams to support production environments improve operational processes manage incidents and drive platform reliability.
The role is based in Hong Kong and will work directly with the CTO and key business stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Production Operations
- Own day-to-day production support activities across platform environments.
- Monitor platform health performance availability and operational KPIs.
- Coordinate incident management root cause analysis and resolution activities.
- Ensuretimelycommunication and escalation of production issues.
Operational Readiness
- Establish and improve production support processes runbooks operational procedures and support models.
- Drive release readiness change management and deployment coordination.
- Ensure support teams haveappropriate documentationand operational knowledge.
Platform Reliability & Monitoring
- Implement andmaintainmonitoring alerting logging and observability capabilities.
- Identifyreliability risksand proactivelydrive remediation activities.
- Improve platform resilience availability recovery and operational maturity.
Infrastructure & Cloud Operations
- Support cloud infrastructure and platform environments.
- Managedeploymentpipelines environment configuration and infrastructure automation.
- Work closely with engineering teams to improve operational stability.
Security & Compliance
- Support operational controlsrequiredfor a regulated financial platform.
- Participate in audits security reviews disaster recovery testing and operational risk assessments.
- Ensure operational processes align with security and compliance requirements.
Stakeholder Coordination
- Act as a bridge between Engineering Product Operations Compliance Risk and external partners.
- Coordinate operational activities across multiple teams.
- Provide clear operational reporting and status updates to management.
Required Experience
- 7 years of experience in DevOps Production Support SRE Platform Operations or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Experience supporting critical production systems in financial services fintech payments trading digital banking or regulated environments.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
- Strong experience in monitoring observability incident management and operational support.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities.
Preferred Experience
- Experience supporting blockchain digitalassetstablecoin payments or financial market infrastructure platforms.
- Experience with Kubernetes containerized environments and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
- Experience with security operations audit readiness and regulated environments.
- Familiarity with operational processes supporting 24x7 services.
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate:
- Is operationally minded rather than purelydevelopment focused.
- Enjoysrunning and improving production platforms.
- Is comfortable handling incidents and productionissues.
- Takesownership anddrivesissues to resolution.
- Can coordinate across technology product operations compliance and risk teams.
- Thinks proactively about reliability resilience and operational excellence.
(Note: Due to the high volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not received a response from GFT regarding your application within 10 workdays please consider that we have decided to proceed with other candidates. We truly appreciate your interest in GFT and thank you for your understanding)
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Senior IC
About Company
We see opportunity in technology. In domains such as cloud, AI, mainframe modernisation, DLT and IoT, we blend established practice with new thinking to help our clients stay ahead.