Lead Architect / Software Engineering / DevOps / Automation / DevSecOps

Lead / Architect - Software Engineering / DevOps / Automation / DevSecOps - IC

Client Description

Major digital and media broadcasting solutions provider in Hong Kong

Job Description

Software Architect (Engineering Lead)

Responsibilities
• Responsible for leading Engineering (both front-end and back-end) and Architecture teams.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders to determine functional and non-functional software requirements and best practices.
• Create architectural approaches and detailed application architecture strategy for software design and implementation to guide the development team.
• Define all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards.
• Create high-level product specifications and design documents.
• Align the design, development and implementation with the latest tech stack direction.
• Improve reliability, quality and time to market of our suite of OTT products.

DevSecOps Solution Architect

Responsibilities
• Promoting and implementing DevOps / SRE practice and product automated release operation flow.
• Ensure buy-in from development and operational teams, identify the DevOps delivery methods, and make sure both Engineering and Operations teams are trained and empowered for the DevOps/SRE transformation.
• Design, implement and build server clusters, API and microservices, including critical production environments in the hybrid Cloud environment.
• Ensure the availability, performance and scalability of applications in respect of proven design and architecture best practices.
• Design and execute scalability strategies that ensure the scalability and the elasticity of the infrastructure.
• Manage the SRE operation of a portfolio of applications, their Development Life Cycle and optimize their Continuous Integration and Delivery workflows (CI/CD).
• Integrate security tools and processes throughout CI/CD pipelines; automate core security tasks by embedding security controls early on in the software development lifecycle.
• Design, build and maintain DevSecOps pipelines to shift-left security testing.
• Lead, define and map digital architecture processes for designing large scale DevSecOps pipelines.

DevSecOps Solution Architect Requirements
• Practical experience with successful track record in DevOps / DevSecOps / SRE transformation using best of breed open source and leading Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• 10+ years of experience in development at an enterprise level.
• Solid background in software development and system administration.
• Degree holder, preferably in Computer Sciences or similar IT related fields.
• Experience in administering high availability and high-performance environments, as well as managing large-scale deployments of traffic-heavy applications.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes and their corresponding provider management services (Amazon ECS / EKS, Google Container Engine).
• Strong ability to design and execute cutting edge system testing strategies (smoke tests, performance/load tests, regression tests, capacity tests).
• Excellent understanding of scalability processes and techniques.
• Good understanding of information security, configuration management, automation and Cloud security.
• Good knowledge of infrastructure, network and application security controls.
• Knowledge of security tools and processes, which include vulnerability scanning, code review, application scanning, container security, software composition analysis, security testing and other security automation tools such as Penetration test.
• Proven ability to work remotely with teams of various sizes in same/different time zones.
• Highly motivated, productive and organized.
• Excellent communication skills in English, both verbal and written. Mandarin would be an advantage.

DevOps Automation Architect

Responsibilities
• Responsible for promoting and implementing DevOps / SRE practice and product automated release operation flow.
• Ensure buy-in from development and operational teams, identify the DevOps delivery methods, and make sure both Engineering and Operations teams are trained and empowered for the DevOps/SRE transformation.
• Design, implement and build server clusters, API and microservices, including critical production environments in the hybrid Cloud environment.
• Ensure the availability, performance and scalability of applications in respect of proven design and architecture best practices.
• Design and execute scalability strategies that ensure the scalability and the elasticity of the infrastructure.
• Manage the SRE operation of a portfolio of applications, their Development Life Cycle and optimize their Continuous Integration and Delivery workflows (CI/CD).

DevOps Automation Architect Requirements
• Practical experience with successful track record in DevOps / SRE transformation using best of breed open source and leading Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• 10+ years of experience in development at an enterprise level.
• Solid background in software development and system administration.
• Degree holder, preferably in Computer Sciences or similar IT related fields.
• Experience in administering high availability and high-performance environments, as well as managing large-scale deployments of traffic-heavy applications.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes and their corresponding provider management services (Amazon ECS / EKS, Google Container Engine).
• Strong ability to design and execute cutting edge system testing strategies (smoke tests, performance/load tests, regression tests, capacity tests).
• Excellent understanding of scalability processes and techniques.
• Proven ability to work remotely with teams of various sizes in same/different time zones.
• Highly motivated, productive and organized.
• Excellent communication skills in English, both verbal and written. Mandarin would be an advantage.

Job Requirements

Software Architect (Engineering Lead)

Requirements
• 10+ years of relevant experience in technology, including Software/Application/Solution Architecture.
• Strong technical background in software development/engineering.
• Degree holder, preferably in Computer Sciences or similar IT related fields.
• Team management experience and leadership skills in driving a high-performance team.
• Experience working with diverse culture; global or regional exposure being an advantage.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in cloud environments such as AWS (EC2, S3, Kinesis/Kafka, Lambda, Glue), Google Cloud, or other Public cloud platforms.
• Flexible and able to work in a dynamic environment with tight deadlines.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills in English. Mandarin would be an advantage.