Lead SRE & Observability Engineer - Global Financial Firm - J12933

Lead SRE & Observability Engineer - Global Financial Firm - J12933 (Hong Kong)

Our client is an elite, globally integrated financial institution renowned for its market-leading operational stability and continuous investment in modern technology. Operating at a massive scale, they foster a tech-first engineering culture that prioritizes deep technical problem-solving over bureaucratic processes. This organization is highly valued by its employees for its long-term career stability, offering an environment where engineers average over 3+ years of tenure.

The Role & Landscape

You will take complete ownership of regional projects, modernizing monitoring frameworks, and working closely with global leadership to ensure the absolute reliability of critical distributed trading systems.

- Build & Modernize: Design, enhance, and implement enterprise-scale Prometheus and Logstash pipelines—handling everything from metric scraping and relabeling to advanced log parsing and routing into Elasticsearch.

- In-House Tooling: Write clean, production-grade automation code (primarily in Python, Go, or Shell) to develop internal tools, eliminate manual toil, and optimize pipeline efficiency.

- Infrastructure Optimization: Troubleshoot and perform deep-dive performance tuning across enterprise Linux (RHEL 7/8/9) server clusters.

- Collaborative Impact: Act as the technical bridge between local infrastructure teams and global engineering hubs, orchestrating critical incident resolution, DR drills, and long-term capacity planning.

What We Are Looking For

- Education: A completed full-time Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or a strictly related technical discipline.

- Experience: 8–10 years of professional IT experience, with at least 3+ years dedicated to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or advanced Observability frameworks within a complex environment (Investment Banking or Financial Services experience is preferred).

- The Coding Baseline: Strong foundational programming skills. You must be comfortable writing and explaining script logic/tooling in Python, Shell, or Go.

- The Stack: Proven hands-on expertise building and maintaining pipelines across Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, and the ELK stack (Logstash/Elasticsearch). Deep comfort with RHEL administration and systems-level fault finding.

- Professional Stability: A proven track record of career stability, ideally showcasing 3+ years of tenure with previous employers.

- Communication: Absolute fluency in professional English is mandatory; conversational proficiency in Chinese (Cantonese or Mandarin) is highly advantageous for regional team collaboration.

If this outstanding opportunity sounds like your next career move, please send your resume in Word format to Lu Zhang at resume(at)pinpointasia(dot)com and put Lead SRE & Observability Engineer - Global Financial Firm - J12933 in the subject header. Data provided is for recruitment purposes only.