About the role
Role Introduction
Reports to: Platform Ops Senior Lead
Lead the platforms that power how Cathay builds, tests and releases digital products. As Platform Ops Lead, you are responsible for delivering, running and continually improving DevOps Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platforms that allow web and mobile application teams to move quickly, securely and at scale.
Working closely with application teams, you translate real business needs into reliable platform services, combining CI/CD toolchains, container platforms and hybrid cloud infrastructure. The role blends hands-on technical leadership with service ownership — from automation and self-healing capabilities, to performance testing, proactive monitoring and secure access controls — all built in line with Cathay’s infrastructure strategy and roadmap.
This is a role for someone who enjoys shaping platforms that others rely on every day. By guiding engineers, partnering with vendors and applying FinOps practices to optimise cost, you help create a stable, modern DevOps environment that supports innovation, resilience and long-term value for the business.
Key Responsibilities
Build, operate and continuously enhance automation, CI/CD and self-healing hybrid cloud container platforms to deliver high availability and scalable infrastructure services, supporting web and mobile application development.
Maintain Observability platform's stability and self-service automations for application team. ie Elastic Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Ensure reliable day-to-day operations of DevOps platforms, covering continuous integration, test automation, environment configuration and version control.
Partner with application teams to translate requirements into a clear Platform Ops service catalogue.
Govern the quality and compliance of base images, libraries, CI/CD pipelines and container platforms against corporate security and quality standards.
Evaluate, retire and replace obsolete or redundant CI/CD toolsets to maintain market-aligned solutions.
Enable secure segregation of duties through tailored access controls across DevOps toolsets.
Apply FinOps practices to optimise cloud an…
