Lead DevOps Engineer

Join us as a Lead DevOps Engineer, where you'll be responsible for driving DevOps transformation across all squads - ensuring engineering excellence, platform standardization, and compliance with modern development practices. This role is highly technical and hands‑on, requiring deep expertise in AWS and automation. To be successful, you should have experience with: Lead CI/CD Transformation: Guide teams through the three‑phase pipeline adoption journey - build, deployment, and production release - ideally using GitLab. Promote trunk‑based development, high test coverage, and quality gates across teams with varying levels of readiness. AWS Expertise: Hands‑on experience with key AWS services including S3, EC2, ECS, ECR, VPC, IAM, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Glue, and Step Functions. Application Modernisation: Ensure evergreen pipelines with integrated vulnerability verification, estate management, and cyber checks as part of release pipelines. Manage areas where compliance is not achieved and ensure visibility of progress. Some other highly valued skills include: Hands‑on experience with data tooling and ETL platforms such as Databricks, AWS Glue, Starburst, and Redshift. Strong background in test automation and reducing manual testing effort. Familiarity with a broad technology stack, including Python. Description Development and delivery of high‑quality software solutions by using industry‑aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimised for performance. Cross‑functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives. Collaboration with peers, participation in code reviews, and promotion of a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing. Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth. Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions. Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability. Profile To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate policy breaches. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long‑term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements. If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others. OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject‑matter expert within their own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long‑term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross‑functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business‑aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In‑depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem‑solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes. Job Offer This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to contribute to a leading company in Hong Kong. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply and make a meaningful impact. To apply online please click the ‘Apply’ button below. For a confidential discussion about this role please contact Royce Chan on +852 3602 2491. #J-18808-Ljbffr