WeLab - DevOps Engineer

Mid Level

Hong Kong

DevOps Engineer

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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. As the only homegrown Hong Kong fintech to receive a virtual banking license, we aim to reinvent and redefine the banking experience by building a bank we love.

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Who we're looking for

We are an energetic and passionate team that can deliver and execute. We are looking for other intellectually curious, open-minded and smart-working individuals who are just as passionate as we are about making financial services enjoyable. Now you have the opportunity to join us on our journey to achieve our vision and be part of building a better financial future for everyone.

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What you will be doing in this role

WeLab operates WeLend and WeLab Bank in Hong Kong, WeLab Digital (我来数科), Taoxinji (淘新机) and Tianmian Lab (天冕) in Mainland China and a fintech joint venture AWDA in Indonesia. 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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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 prioritise 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

About this role

We are looking for a talented DevOps 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 energetic 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.

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

Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure for WeLend
Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools
Manage our continuous deployment pipeline
Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes
Write and maintain automation scripts to increase repeatability and decrease time required to keep our system running

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What is required and what we’re looking for

BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related disciplines
6+ years’ experience in development / IT teams with minimum 3+ years’ 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, Ruby, MySql, Postgres, NGINX)
Cloud experience, preferably in AWS, Heroku and GCP
Experience with virtualization and containerization (e.g., VMware, Virtual Box, Docker)
Experience with monitoring systems and automation software (e.g., Kubernetes, Rancher)
Experience with other DevOps, configuration management and application performance tools (e.g. GitHub, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Bugsnag, Selenium, CircleCI, New Relic)
Working knowledge of IAC (Infrastructure as Code)
Solid scripting skills (e.g., shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python)
Solid networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP and other application protocols)
Attention to detail and think-outside-the-box mentality
Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
Good command of English

WeLab Perks

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

We offer competitive salary package to the successful candidate. If you are interested in joining this exciting team, please apply with resume via the "Apply" button.

All information provided by applicants will be used for recruitment purposes only. Information of unsuccessful applicants will be destroyed within 24 months of receipt.

Awards & recognition

Financial Times (FT) 2020 Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies – #2 ranked company
2020 CNBC Disruptor 50 List – #11, only company included from Hong Kong and just one of five from Asia