Platform Engineer - Officer - Cloud Platform Services - IT

Location: HK-TKO 5/F, CN-Shenzhen

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Company Introduction:

We’re home to Asia's most dynamic and vibrant capital markets.
Connecting capital, ideas, inspiration and innovation for deeper, more diverse and liquid global capital markets; providing greater choice and opportunity for our customers, each and every day.

HKEX is a purpose-driven company. Our commitment to the long-term development of our business and our markets is articulated in our purpose: "To Connect, Promote and Progress our Markets and the Communities they support for the prosperity of all."

Job Summary:

We are rapidly scaling our internal cloud infrastructure to empower developers to innovate at full speed. We are seeking a passionate technologist who thrives on cloud, automation, and continuous learning. If you can architect internal tooling that transforms infrastructure provisioning from hours to minutes, and are excited to work across both on-premises and public cloud environments, you may be the perfect fit for our high-performance team.
Your work will redefine how developers interact with infrastructure, providing instant, secure, and reliable access while fostering a culture of continuous security and continuous improvement.

Job Duties:

Responsibilities:

• Automate and optimize infrastructure provisioning and deployment cycles, upholding reliability, security, and compliance with continuous security practices.
• Design and build robust internal applications and tools that enable developers to access scalable infrastructure through intuitive self-service interfaces.
• Lead the design of standardized services and APIs in collaboration with application, operations, and security teams.
• Support and maintain cloud platforms across both on-premise and public cloud environments.
• Champion a culture of automation, security, and operational excellence in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Requirements:

• Graduate degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering or related field (postgraduate degree is a plus).
• Cloud-computing certification with AWS, Azure, GCP, or Chinese cloud providers (expert certification is a plus).
• Solid understanding of Linux, TCP/IP, and Git fundamentals.
• Strong grasp of software-engineering principles across design, testing, CI/CD, and release management.
• Proficiency in Terraform, having built a production-ready Terraform provider is a plus.
• Familiarity with microservice architecture and 12-factor principles, experience building a microservice platform is a plus.
• Experience building internal developer tooling, e.g. CLI, API, web-app, pipelines.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language, e.g. Shell, Python, Ruby, or Perl.
• Comfortable working with data, separate insight from large, complex datasets.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), with additional exposure to Chinese-based cloud solutions (e.g. either Public or Private) highly desirable.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to work independently.
• Practical problem-solver comfortable operating in complex, distributed environments.
• Eagerness to learn, adapt, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and excellence.
• First-principles builder, when a tool isn't available, you take the initiative to build it.
• Exposure to GenAI use cases, LLM-based solutions, Agentic AI would be a plus.

HKEX is committed as an Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity is one of our core values and we look to support, respect diverse perspectives, abilities, culture and experiences within our workplace.

Location:

HKEX - TKO

Shift:

Standard - 40 Hours (Hong Kong SAR)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Worker Type:

Permanent