IT - Infrastructure (Compute & Storage) – VP/AVP

About Us:
Huatai International Financial Holdings Company Limited (“Huatai International” or “the Company”), is the only overseas wholly-owned or controlled subsidiary of Huatai Securities. Huatai International is the Huatai Group’s international arm which plays as a crucial role in the group's internationalization strategy by:
a) not only providing offshore capital market services (and a global business platform) but also provides onshore clients with valuable cross-border capital market services (aligned with the mainland China government’s policies and commercial intentions);
b) actively making use of Huatai Securities’ leading position, distribution network and customer base in mainland China;
c) integrating on a global basis across many jurisdictions and regions, a successful and fully integrated international financial platform with innovative financial services solutions.

Huatai International operates as a holding company for consolidating all of the group’s cross-border businesses and companies under one umbrella, offering a truly unified and international business platform. In recognition of such international strength, the renowned international rating agency Standard and Poor’s has assigned Huatai International a “BBB+” rating (for long term) and “A-2” (for short-term).

Job Description:

• Hands-on involvement in the design, implementation & support of various infrastructure initiatives & projects in data centers, cloud, co-location, network and/or cyber-security areas, for various business initiatives and IT strategies.
• Hands-on involvement in the life-cycle spanning requirements, PoC, design, implementation, testing and subsequent support & maintenance of the infrastructure solutions.
• Enforce and execute in the preparation, regular reviews, and updates of IT infrastructure governance policies & standards, procedures and guidelines that comply with the industry’s best practices and regulatory requirements;
• Manage & carry out daily operational maintenance & support on the IT infrastructure to ensure theirs availability and stability.
• Manage & work closely with service providers and vendors from procurement, design & implementation, to theirs day-to-day incident troubleshooting to ensure compliant with SLA.
• Occasionally work in non-office hour on changes, maintenance and/or incident handling

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Information System, Computer Science or related Engineering disciplines
• 8-12 years of extensive & hands-on experience in delivering IT Infrastructure projects for the finance and/or securities brokerage business with international exposure.
• Extensive and hands-on experiences in one or more of the followings:
• Full life-cycle Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, as well as major China distro) management, from distro evaluation, deployment, monitoring, patch, upgrade, etc
• Familiar with Linux scripting and/ or other scripting language
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Solid experiences in the followings:
• Familiar with AWS, AliCloud and Azure
• Various virtualization technologies, VMWare, KVM, Huawei DCS, etc
• Hands-on involvement in the design, implementation & support of various infra projects, including but not limited to cross-region data centers setup, new office setup, cloud-hosting, Exchanges co-location setup, and use of ultra-low latency/high-frequency trading/AI/high-performance computing technologies, connectivity with global clients and FSI (such as exchanges, clearing, market data, etc).
• Experiences in working in hybrid environment involving cross-region, cross-languages integration and collaboration of both in-house & outsourced infrastructure providers and systems.
• Broad knowledge on new technology trend and knowledge on various service/product providers capabilities, ranging from virtualization, Windows OS, Linux OS, VM, clouds, storage, AI-related, Exchanges-related, ultra-low latency/high frequency trading, and/or cyber-security.  Knowledge on Chinese domestic products/providers & their capabilities is a plus.
• Strong analytical skills and critical thinking skill in evaluating solutions & troubleshooting of incidents
• Good communication skills with conversational Mandarin & English
• Team player with pro-active problem solving and coordination skills, and continuous improvement mindset contributing to the team’s success
• Can work independently and work well in fast-pace, multi-tasking environment with tight turnaround time