SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER/TRADING SUPPORT

Our client client, a buy-side investment firm, is conducting a multi-hire initiative to recruit multiple Site Reliability Engineers with a strong focus on trading support. As the team scales across APAC, these roles offer meaningful greenfield opportunities, a flat organisational structure, and a strong commitment to work-life balance. The package includes private healthcare, a daily lunch allowance, and education assistance.

Roles are based in Hong Kong & full relocation package provided.

Role Overview:

You’ll partner with engineers, traders, and quantitative research teams to build, run, and support a production environment for a highly automated, multi-asset trading operation, with hands-on ownership of Linux/Unix systems to ensure stability, performance, and resilience across a distributed stack. You’ll also contribute to the development and maintenance of Linux-based deployment and release tooling, while gaining practical exposure to market dynamics and how architecture and operational risk directly impact trading outcomes. Supporting a global trading desk, the role is primarily focused on real-time trading support and reliability.

In this role, you will:

Design and build monitoring utilities using Python and Bash to track system stability, throughput/performance, and service dependencies for a production-critical stack

Keep watch over and assist a distributed, Linux-driven trading platform

Coordinate with the Platform Engineering group on server provisioning, validation, rollout procedures, and system tuning

Serve as a core contact between the trading desk and network, security, market-data, and platform groups when production incidents arise or new systems are introduced

Provide support to traders, strategists, and quantitative researchers

Strengthen reliability practices, automation efforts, and day-to-day efficiency throughout the trading technology layer

What we’re looking for

Solid, practical experience with Linux/Unix systems (required), since the role is operating system focused

Experience writing scripts, especially Python and Bash (required)

Prior experience supporting production or other mission-critical systems in a fast-moving environment

Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with traders, quants, and engineers

Ability to handle intricate system-level incidents quickly, even under significant time pressure

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field

Nice to have

Financial services or trading-domain exposure (preferred, not mandatory)

Familiarity with market instruments and trading concepts

Strong quantitative thinking and problem-solving ability (highly valued)

Please send your CV to Wisely Collin at wisely.collin@ashford-benjamin.com, or call +852 2315 9517 for a confidential discussion.