The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world’s largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers.
Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.
That’s why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply ‘empower’ you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.
Take the lead and we’ll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.
For our business, for clients, and for you
Job Title: DevOps / Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Engineer , Fund Solutions
Location: Makati City
Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced and self-driven DevOps / Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Engineer to join our global Product Technology engineering team within a leading financial services group. Based in Manila, Philippines, this role provides APAC /Europe working-hours engineering coverage for business-critical cloud and integration environments as part of a globally distributed, follow-the-sun engineering model.
This is a hands-on engineering role that sits close to software engineering, integration platforms and production support — it is not a purely infrastructure support position. You will help build, automate, deploy, monitor and troubleshoot cloud and integration environments, improve operational stability and reliability, and support engineering delivery during APAC hours, including early-day production monitoring, deployment and release support, and hands-on incident troubleshooting.
Our teams build and support integration platforms, Azure-based microservices, web platforms, trade and payment automation flows, enterprise back-office synchronization services, data platforms, and business-critical file and API data exchanges used across fund administration and financial services operations worldwide.
You will report to the Head of DevOps & Fund Solutions Development, based in Spain, as part of a shared engineering pool, with day-to-day work functionally aligned to platform and squad leads depending on platform priorities and support demand.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code and automation for cloud and integration environments using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates or similar.
Build, manage and improve CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar), including build validation, artifact management, release automation and deployment gates.
Support and automate deployments and releases across development, test and production environments, coordinating release readiness with engineering teams.
Operate and support Azure-based services and microservices, including compute, containers, storage, file shares, networking dependencies, DNS, firewalls, private endpoints, certificates, credentials and connectivity.
Manage secrets, certificates and credential lifecycles (e.g. Azure Key Vault or similar), including secure rotation and renewals.
Monitor infrastructure and application health, logs and alerts using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics or equivalent; build dashboards and actionable alerting and continuously improve observability coverage.
Provide hands-on troubleshooting of production issues: reading logs, tracing failures across APIs, message queues, scheduled jobs and file transfers, performing root-cause analysis and safe replay or reprocessing of failed flows.
Support incident and change workflows in ITSM and DevOps tooling (e.g. ServiceNow, Azure DevOps), investigating issues, documenting findings and escalating appropriately.
Create and maintain runbooks, troubleshooting guides and operational documentation so that incident resolution becomes repeatable and transferable.
Automate repetitive operational tasks with PowerShell, Bash or Python to reduce manual intervention and operational toil.
Support integration patterns involving REST APIs, API gateways, message queues / service bus, asynchronous processing, SFTP, file shares and file-based data exchange.
Contribute to environment management: provisioning, configuration, patching, capacity, cost awareness, backup and disaster-recovery readiness.
Apply security good practices: least-privilege access, privileged access management, environment hardening and audit-friendly change control.
Support engineering delivery by partnering with development teams on infrastructure needs, environment issues, performance and reliability improvements.
Collaborate daily with engineers across Europe and other global regions, ensuring clean handovers as part of a follow-the-sun model.
Participate in controlled out-of-hours or on-call escalation only where formally agreed and compensated.
Core Skills & Qualifications
Strong experience with Azure cloud operations and administration.
Infrastructure-as-Code experience, preferably Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates or similar.
CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar tooling.
Solid Git experience (GitHub, Azure Repos or similar), including branching strategies and pull-request workflows.
Scripting experience with PowerShell, Bash, Python or similar.
Experience with Docker / containerized workloads.
Experience supporting production systems: incident investigation, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
Understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, firewalls, load balancing, certificates, connectivity, SFTP, private endpoints or equivalent.
Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics or equivalent.
Experience managing secrets and certificates (e.g. Azure Key Vault or similar).
Comfortable reading logs, tracing issues across distributed components and following runbooks.
Basic SQL skills for investigation and data verification.
Good documentation and communication skills in English (verbal and written).
Ability to work independently with distributed teams and stakeholders in different time zones.
Nice to Have (Valued Skills)
Experience with Kubernetes (e.g. AKS) or container orchestration at scale.
Experience with .NET / C# application environments or microservices.
Experience with integration platforms, API management, message queues / service bus, async processing or API orchestration.
Experience with job schedulers or workflow orchestration tools.
Experience in financial services, fund administration, payments, trade automation or other regulated environments.
Knowledge of ServiceNow and ITIL-style incident/change processes.
Experience with secure access models, privileged access management or secrets management (e.g. CyberArk).
Awareness of cloud cost management / FinOps practices.
Shift & Collaboration Expectations
Working hours aligned with APAC business hours (Manila-based), with a shared morning window overlapping European teams.
A degree of flexibility in working hours is expected to guarantee sufficient overlap with European teams for planning, releases, handovers and critical situations, always in line with local policies.
The role provides APAC working-hours coverage and may participate in a formal on-call or critical incident escalation rota where approved by management and governed by local HR policy.
Daily collaboration with engineers and platform owners across Europe and other global locations.
Requires independent task management and comfort with asynchronous collaboration.
What We Offer
A supportive and multicultural work environment.
Career progression opportunities in a growing global business.
Exposure to real-world business operations and business-critical platforms in the financial domain.
Long-Term Growth Path
This role is ideal for an engineer who:
Enjoys combining infrastructure automation, cloud engineering and hands-on production troubleshooting.
Wants to work close to software engineering, integration platforms and microservices.
Is curious about observability, reliability engineering, automation and operational excellence.
Wants hands-on experience supporting and improving a portfolio of business-critical integration platforms, web platforms and cloud services within a global financial services organization.
Additional information:
We are an equal opportunity employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability. Any hiring decision are made on the basis of skills, qualifications and experiences.
We measure our success as a business, not only by delivering great products and services and continually increasing our assets under administration and market share, but also by how we positively impact people, society and the planet.
For more information on our commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) please visit https://theapexgroup.com/csr-policy/
Disclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners.
Skills Required
- Strong experience with Azure cloud operations and administration
- Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates or similar)
- CI/CD pipeline experience (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar)
- Solid Git experience (GitHub, Azure Repos or similar)
- Scripting with PowerShell, Bash or Python
- Experience with Docker / containerized workloads
- Experience supporting production systems: incident investigation, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
- Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, firewalls, load balancing, connectivity, private endpoints)
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics or equivalent)
- Experience managing secrets and certificates (e.g., Azure Key Vault)
- Ability to support integration patterns (REST APIs, API gateways, message queues/service bus, SFTP, file shares)
- Basic SQL skills for investigation and data verification
- Good documentation and communication skills in English (verbal and written)
- Ability to work independently with distributed teams across time zones
Apex Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Apex Group and has not been reviewed or approved by Apex Group.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible benefits are positioned as being tailored by country, with localized packages and perks that can differ by jurisdiction. Mobility options such as the JUMP program add a non-cash element that can increase the perceived total rewards value for those who can access it.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing support is described as including EAPs, mental-health workshops, mentoring support, and local lifestyle perks like gym or cycle-to-work schemes. These offerings broaden the benefits mix beyond purely financial rewards.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is described in at least one jurisdiction as including an employer match structure and an additional automatic contribution after tenure. This can strengthen the non-salary portion of total compensation where offered.
Apex Group Insights
What We Do
We are a single-source financial solutions provider dedicated to driving positive change while supporting the growth and ambitions of asset managers, allocators, financial institutions, and family offices around the world. Established in Bermuda in 2003, we have continually disrupted the industry through our investment in innovation and talent. Today, we set the pace in fund and asset servicing and stand out for our unique single-source solution and unified cross asset-class platform which supports the entire value chain, harnesses leading innovative technology, and benefits from cross-jurisdictional expertise delivered by a long-standing management team and over 13,000 highly integrated professionals. As a pioneering data and fintech-enabled company, we are a disruptor driving digital tools into fund and asset servicing. However, our vision to drive positive change extends beyond the industry. The Apex Foundation, a not-for-profit entity, is our passionate commitment to empower sustainable change
