DevSecOps Engineer - Wuhan

Third Bridge is a market-leading investment research firm. We provide integrated solutions for the world’s top investors and business leaders to help them make smarter and faster decisions. No other company in the world provides the same holistic investment offering: our superpower is the combination of human insights and unique investor-led content with a global expert network. We serve over 1,000 investment firms, offering clients 24/7 coverage through our team of 1,300+ employees located across nine offices.

Product & Technology Overview

Our Chief Information Officer (CIO) leads the technology function, and our Chief Product and Data Officer (CPDO) leads the product function. We invest heavily in product, data, and technology capabilities, enabling us to deliver innovative products, solutions, and deep market intelligence to our clients.

The Product & Technology (P&T) Group is a talented team of product managers, designers, engineers, architects, technologists, business analysts, and change specialists with entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets.

We hire curious, creative, and diverse people from different industries to challenge our thinking, including many people from outside the financial sector.

P&T is a growing team of people on a mission to provide industry-leading products and services to our clients in a highly competitive and hyper-growth market and to give the entire business the right solutions to operate smoothly and from anywhere.

If you want to be at the forefront of delivering the best products and technology services in the investor research market, working in a fast-paced environment, with freedom and empowerment to learn and grow, with great perks and flexible working, then Third Bridge could be a fulfilling career for you!

Role Overview

• We seek a skilled, motivated, and experienced DevSecOps Engineer to join our team.
• The primary focus of this role is to collaborate with development teams to streamline software delivery pipelines, automate release processes, drive the adoption of infrastructure as code (IaC) and configuration management practices, and monitor and enhance system performance, reliability, and availability through effective monitoring and alerting systems, ensuring the security of our systems.
• An Engineer with a DevOps Specialty at Third Bridge promotes and encourages a collaborative culture and continuous improvement within the organisation. They advise on the process of delivering software through automation and the adoption of tooling to assist the overall software development cycle, providing guidance on building and deploying software and infrastructure following industry best practices.
• They work together with other roles in the organization to improve and evolve software delivery processes to meet the ever-changing business needs. The DevSecOps Engineer role is an essential part of the team, advising, guiding, and helping teams deliver value to the business while ensuring quality standards and maintaining the security and reliability of all the systems involved. DevSecOps Engineers encourage autonomy and shared responsibility in delivering software by providing documented and standardised processes and tools.
• The successful candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams to enhance and streamline our development and deployment processes.

Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Tool Setup and Management: Deploy, configure, and manage tools and services such as CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), version control systems, configuration management tools, and monitoring solutions.
• Maintain and keep the software delivery tooling up-to-date.
• Advise and guide other engineers on infrastructure, cloud-related topics, CI/CD topics, and monitoring and observability best practices. Providing guidance and best practices drives engineering productivity and reliability practices across the wider team.
• Work on automating tasks and workflows to improve the efficiency of people and processes – leading to faster, more reliable deployment. Find pain points and bottlenecks in the development lifecycle to find ways to automate processes to relieve the pressure on the engineering teams.
• Develop and enhance automation scripts and workflows for routine tasks, deployments, and infrastructure provisioning using tools and technologies like Ansible, Terraform, and Python. Automate infrastructure following best IaC (Infrastructure as Code) practises, providing reusable modules that can be quickly adopted by the engine.
• Evolve the platform and how we deliver our services by developing and helping the wider team adopt our cloud infrastructure, observability and CI/CD offering.
• Design, write and deliver software that improves the lives of the engineers and the scalability of our platform.
• Ability to influence and introduce change into development teams. This might involve introducing new tooling, new processes, or new ways of working to improve developer productivity and scale.
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of configurations, processes, and procedures for the cloud infrastructure and DevOps tools.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements and efficiency gains. Propose and implement solutions to enhance the overall infrastructure and toolset.
• Maintenance and Troubleshooting: Monitor system performance, identify issues, and conduct troubleshooting to ensure high availability and optimal performance. Implement necessary fixes and improvements.
• Security and Compliance: Implement and maintain security best practices, including access controls, encryption, etc. Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Essential Skills:

• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, with a focus on configuring, setting up, and maintaining cloud infrastructure and tools.
• Proficiency in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps tools such as CircleCi, Terraform, Jenkins, Git, Ansible, or similar
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automation concepts
• Knowledge of containerisation and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python) for automation and troubleshooting
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Demonstrable ability to write code, tests, documentation and other artefacts necessary to deliver solutions to time, quality and budget constraints
• Demonstrable ability to work as a part of small and varying teams of individuals with diverse backgrounds, skills and levels of experience
• Demonstrable ability to build trust and relationships at appropriate levels within and outside Third Bridge. Strong communication skills to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams

Why work for us?

• Vacation: 15 days (which increases to 20 days after 2 years of service) 
• Learning: personal development allowance of ￥9,000 per year, which can be used for any learning programmes you feel would be beneficial for you `
• Health and wellbeing: private medical insurance, Modern Health to focus on mental health. Supplementary housing allowance
• Future and family: pension scheme and vitality private medical insurance
• Flexibility: work from anywhere for one month per year, 2 annual volunteer days, 2 personal days when life throws you a curveball
• Rewards: get points through our colleague-to-colleague recognition programme to spend on hotels, gift cards, donations to charity and more 

Apply Now:

• If you're ready to contribute to a team that values innovation, collaboration, and the pursuit of excellence, Third Bridge is looking for someone like you. Join us to make a tangible impact with your work, learn from the best, and help shape the future of technology.

The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the country they are applying.

We know that to be truly innovative, we need to have a diverse team around us. That is why Third Bridge is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. If you are not 100% sure if you are right for the role, please apply anyway and we will be happy to consider your application.