# Senior Cloud Services Engineer - Associate - Cloud Platform Services

**Company**: HKEX
**Location**: Hong Kong, HK
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

HKEX Cloud Platform Services team is seeking a motivated and experienced Senior Cloud Services Engineer. This team drives the design, deployment, and ongoing operation support on cloud-based solutions. They work across different application development, infrastructure operations, and security teams to ensure stability, scalability, and security of HKEX cloud infrastructure.

**Job Duties:**

- Maintain platform stability and high availability by defining and monitoring key observability metrics across all cloud environments.

- Lead incident response efforts and conduct thorough Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to implement long-term preventative measures.

- Develop and govern a library of modular Terraform modules to ensure all deployments are standardized and reproducible.

- Identify and reduce manual toil by building automation scripts and exploring intelligent tooling for repetitive operational tasks.

- Build and manage comprehensive observability stacks, including monitoring and logging, to provide deep visibility into system health.

- Enforce security standards such as CIS Benchmarks through the implementation of automated guardrails.

- Optimize cloud resource utilization and costs by using predictive insights to scale infrastructure based on real-time demand.

**Job Requirements:**

- Minimum 4 years in AWS, Azure, GCP or China Brand Private Cloud, professional experience in SRE or DevOps roles managing high-availability production environments.

- Expert-level proficiency in Terraform for managing large-scale infrastructure as code.

- Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, Go, or Bash for developing robust automation tools.

- Extensive hands-on experience with observability platforms like Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack.

- Demonstrate a deep understanding of cloud networking and security, including VPC design and CIS compliance standards.

- Familiar with modern automation trends, such as using AI-driven data analytics, reporting and anomaly detection to enhance incident triage.

- Proven ability to solve complex problems in distributed systems while working under high-pressure situations.

**Competencies and Behaviors Required:**

- Analytical Thinking: Breaks down complex cloud infrastructure challenges into manageable components.

- Risk Awareness: Understands and adheres to HKEX’s risk appetite when implementing cloud solutions.

- Intellectual Curiosity: Actively explores emerging cloud technologies.

- Resilience: Maintains composure and adaptability when troubleshooting critical cloud system issues.

- Effective Communication: Explains complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

- Teamwork: Works collaboratively with colleagues to deliver secure and scalable cloud solutions.

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Terraform
- Python
- Go
- Bash
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- ELK stack
- Cloud Networking
- Security

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