WeLab Bank - Senior DevOps Engineer/DevOps Engineer, DevOps Engineering

WeLab, a leading pan-Asian fintech platform, operates two digital banks (WeLab Bank and Bank Saqu by Bank Jasa Jakarta) as well as multiple online financial services in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Indonesia, and Malaysia, with over 60 million individual users and over 700 enterprise customers. WeLab uses game-changing technology to help users access credit, save money, and enjoy their financial journey.  

At WeLab, we always put our people first. Embarking on a career with WeLab means being part of the driving force to make financial services accessible for everyone. In our flat and agile organization, you will get all the opportunities to make real impacts and deliver change. Most importantly, while you achieve greatness, we will ensure you have an amazing experience at WeLab! 

Our team is energetic and passionate who can deliver and execute, and we are looking for intellectually curious, open-minded, and smart-working individuals who are just as passionate as we are about making financial services enjoyable. 

Join us to build a better financial future for everyone! 

About You:

• You're a go-getter with mad juggling skills (or multiple hats) who can thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment 
• You enjoy doing purpose-led and meaningful work 
• 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 can bounce back from setbacks 

What you’ll do and what success looks like in this role

• As a platform owner of various internal systems and vendor software.
• Provide technical support to cloud infrastructure deployment and integration.
• Monitor system performance, and provide system tuning and troubleshooting to ensure compliance with company standard
• Work with the managed services providers and developers to support new project deployment and onboarding of application systems to service platforms.
• Responsible for service platforms capacity planning and ensuring there are sufficient system resources to meet the business needs.
• Defining and setting development, testing, release and monitoring processes for the DevOps pipeline
• Writing system scripts and automated deployment operations.
• Maintain platform security, patching, version upgrade and redundancy strategies.
• Contribute to technical product planning, development, and evaluation.

What is required and what we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems or Computer Science is preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
• Good work ethics, self-motivated and excited to learn.
• Fluent Cantonese and English; ability to speak in Putonghua will be an advantage
• Strong ownership of the platforms & services managed by the team.
• Able to learn and support unfamiliar systems with least advise.
• Working experience in administrating Kubernetes cluster and container technologies.
• Excellent understanding of DevOps, GitOps, CI/CD technologies and practices, experience on Git, Helm charts, Gitlab CI, system scripting, Istio preferred.
• Solid cloud experience, AWS and Ali Cloud preferred.
• Experience with automation software (e.g., Terraform) as an advantage.
• Scripting skills (e.g., shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python) as an advantage.

Perks and Benefits to enrich your experience at WeLab:

• Learning and development stipend - we value lifelong learning and believe the best way to invest in our employees is to encourage them to continue to learn 
• Wellness and happiness – Numerous activities to let you focus on your physical and mental wellbeing. We allow flexible time offs to take care of personal matters and to enjoy time with family and friends 
• Comfortable and positive work environment – Open plan office for easy collaboration and social with your colleagues, or branch out into your own thinking pods when needed, with FREE food and drinks for when you want to recharge 
• Work smart, play hard – Connect with your colleagues over food and drinks at the stocked pantry, in the spacious social area with board games and a ping pong table, or over activities like hiking, yoga, badminton, etc. 
• A big and contagious smile on everyone’s face to make you happier :) 

WeLab’s Awards & Recognitions:

• Asia Banking Finance Retail Banking Awards: Virtual Bank of the Year - Hong Kong  
• CNBC Disruptor 50: the only Hong Kong-based company on the list 
• Financial Times Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies: #2 in ranking  
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong “Corporate Innovation Index”: #1 in ranking