Head of Infrastructure

Overview

A dynamic technology company is seeking an exceptional Head of Infrastructure to lead their next phase of innovation. This key leadership position will be instrumental in overseeing the entire infrastructure & Devops areas. The role requires oversight of development, testing, and production environments in public clouds, ensuring compliance with non-functional requirements such as security, stability, and performance.

What You Will Do

• Lead a team with members in HK, mainland China, Europe and US to manage the cloud infrastructure for enterprise SaaS solutions
• Manage the development, testing and production environments in public clouds fulling non-functional requirements including security, stability, resiliency, business continuity, performance, scalability and system integration
• Drive continuous improvements in infrastructure design, configuration management, operations automation, and cost optimization
• Support our compliance manager in working with external auditors on SOC 2 Type 2 certification, including security tests
• Collaborate with the product and application development teams on improvements beyond infrastructure
• Managing IT help desk operations, internal IT tools, office network and system adoption
• Assessing and managing IT vendors to ensure alignment with organizational goals and standards.

What You Will Need

• Bachelor degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline with 10+ years of hands-on experience in IT infrastructure
• Solid experience in major public clouds including AWS and Azure (relevant certifications in AWS, Azure and DevOps and experience in other public clouds like GCP are also desirable)
• Experience in managing cloud networking, NGINX, Kubernetes, Java applications, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, Redis / Valkey, RabbitMQ / Azure Service Bus, AWS S3 / Azure Blob Storage
• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and tools such as Jenkins
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work with cross-functional teams and vendor negotiations
• Fluent in English and Chinese (Cantonese and Putonghua)
• Eligible to work in HK without sponsorship