Platform Engineer (Kubernetes, Investment Bank, Contract)

A prestigious investment bank in Hong Kong seeks a Platform Engineer – Kubernetes (Contract) to enhance the reliability, performance, and automation of mission-critical systems within a collaborative and growth-focused technology environment.

Key responsibilities:

As a Platform Engineer, you will ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of critical banking systems through CI/CD design, automation, monitoring, and cross-team collaboration.

• Drive system reliability, availability, and performance through proactive monitoring, incident management, and SRE best practices
• Build and enhance observability platforms, including monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and telemetry pipelines across critical systems
• Manage and maintain Linux server environments (RHEL 7/8/9), ensuring security, stability, patch compliance, and operational efficiency
• Analyse logs, metrics, and system behaviour to troubleshoot incidents, resolve performance bottlenecks, and improve service resilience
• Partner with engineering teams to strengthen platform scalability, security, automation, and operational excellence
• Administer Kubernetes environments to ensure reliable workload delivery, platform health, and infrastructure observability
• Support business continuity through on-call participation, disaster recovery exercises, continuous improvement initiatives, and emerging SRE technologies and tools

Candidate profile:

To excel in this role, you bring experience supporting large-scale systems, strong DevOps expertise in CI/CD, cloud and containers, and the ability to collaborate effectively under pressure.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, with 3-7+ years' experience in SRE, platform engineering, or production support environments
• Strong expertise in monitoring and observability platforms, including Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Kibana, and enterprise monitoring tools
• Hands-on experience managing Linux (RHEL 7/8/9) and Kubernetes environments within large-scale, high-availability production systems
• Solid understanding of SRE principles, incident management, disaster recovery, automation, CI/CD pipelines, networking, and distributed systems troubleshooting
• Proficiency in scripting and automation tools (e.g., Python, Bash, Ansible), with strong problem-solving, multitasking, and communication skills; AI/ML infrastructure experience is an advantage

About this company:

A well-established global financial institution provides innovative capital markets and investment solutions to clients across international markets. The organisation fosters a collaborative, technology-driven environment with strong emphasis on professional growth, innovation, and building the next generation of financial services capabilities.

Keywords: Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Azure, Cloud Environment, Investment Bank

What’s next:

Build resilient systems and power the future of financial technology. Apply now!