WeLab - Site Reliability Engineer - WeLend

Mid Level

Hong Kong

Site Reliability Engineer - WeLend

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About Us

WeLab aims to bring joy to everyone’s financial journey. We strive to improve people’s lives by reinventing financial services through game-changing technology. We put our people first, whether it’s our customers or our employees.

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Who we're looking for

We are looking for a talented DevOps/Site Reliability engineer with development and/or system engineering background, with passion on managing our on-premises and cloud infrastructure. You will be a key player of a talented team of engineers to deliver our FinTech platform in the cloud, working with our energic business and technical teams in a fast-growing, highly productive environment. You will also ensure our production platform and development environments are in healthy and secure states, and strive to achieve high performance, zero operational downtime and minimize defects and anomalies.

What you will be doing

Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure for WeLend
Manage our continuous deployment pipeline
Write and maintain automation scripts to increase repeatability and decrease time required to keep our system running⁎
Plan and develop automated test for cloud-based products in agile development approach
Research new technologies, techniques and 3rd party frameworks to benefit the automation
Improve reliability, availability and performance of the highly scaling cloud systems with recovery automation
Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes
Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools

Who you are

About you:

You're a go-getter with mad juggling skills (or multiple hats) who can thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment
You have a strong thirst for knowledge and are driven to find solutions that don't exist yet
You are comfortable with ambiguity and extremely resourceful (in your past life you could've been a detective)
You always find a way to get things done without sacrificing the quality of your work, integrity and values. No task is off limits for you.
You are humble and prioritize the success of the team over your own with an eagerness to help those around you
You don't shy away from challenges and have the ability to bounce back from setbacks

What is required and what we’re looking for:

BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline
6+ years of work experience in development / IT teams with minimum 3+ years of experience in high performing DevOps teams focusing on scripting, automating, configuring and troubleshooting B2C and B2B cloud and hybrid-based environments.
Experience in the administration and performance tuning of application stacks and development and production environments (e.g.,Tomcat, Apache, MySql, Postgres, NGINX)
Cloud experience, preferably in AWS
Experience with virtualization and containerization (e.g., VMware, Docker)
Experience with monitoring systems and automation software
Experience with other DevOps, configuration management and application performance tools (e.g. GitLab, Ansible, Chef)
Working knowledge in IAC (Infrastructure as Code)
Development for CI/CD Automation
Automated monitoring and recovery development for highly scalable systems
Automated test development including test script, validator
Solid scripting skills (e.g., shell scripts, Python)
Solid networking knowledge
Knowledge with cyber security
Attention to detail and think-outside-the-box mentality
Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
Good command of Cantonese and English

What we offer

Competitive salary
Learning and development stipend, because we value lifelong learning and believe the best way to invest in our employees is to encourage them to continue to learn
Work hard and laugh lots (chicken wings and french toast, etc.) with a high-performing, fun and diverse team
Weekly afternoon teas and fully stocked fridge
Coffee stipend
Conveniently located office surrounded by diverse and delicious lunch options
Lively office with gaming consoles and a ping pong table
Fun extracurricular activities with your colleagues like hiking, yoga, badminton, wine tasting, dragon boat racing, rock climbing, etc.
Employee referral bonuses

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