How CICC Wealth Reached Advanced DevOps Operations Standards

Large enterprises worldwide have proven that standardization and tool empowerment are key to success. The DevOps standard and a standard‑based continuous delivery pipeline platform can significantly improve quality, efficiency, safety, and agility, enhancing market competitiveness.

On October 26, 2023, the 21st GOPS Global Operations Conference was held in Shanghai, jointly organized by the Efficient Operations Community and the DevOps Era Community. At the event, the China Information Communication Research Institute released the latest batch of DevOps capability maturity assessment results.

CICC Wealth Securities Co., Ltd. participated with the "FS2.0 Unified Access and Authentication Project," which passed the China Information Communication Research Institute’s "R&D Operations Integration (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model" Technical Operations Level 2 assessment, indicating that its DevOps capabilities are at an advanced domestic level.

To date, CICC Wealth has passed one Technical Operations assessment, one Continuous Delivery assessment, and one System and Tool Standard assessment.

Assessment Unit: China Information Communication Research Institute

During the conference, we interviewed the General Manager of the IT Department, Mr. Xie Bisong, the Operations Director, Mr. Cai Kun, and the Transaction Operations Team Leader, Mr. Liu Wei, to discuss project details, assessment experiences, and lessons learned.

Q&A Highlights

Q: Please introduce the project you assessed.

A: The project is a next‑generation trading platform’s unified access and authentication system, providing a single entry point for external channels, supporting dynamic routing, request proxy, and single‑sign‑on with multi‑point roaming, laying a solid foundation for the new trading platform.

Q: How does achieving Technical Operations Level 2 feel?

A: The assessment gave us a comprehensive view of our operations, prompting improvements in standards, system upgrades, and team collaboration, greatly enhancing efficiency.

Q: How did you plan the Technical Operations assessment?

A: The project spans from access layer to backend database, using a multi‑active architecture and micro‑services, allowing us to evaluate reliability, security, and stability comprehensively.

Q: What challenges did you face during the assessment?

A: Challenges included incomplete standards and system connectivity gaps, which we addressed by refining policies and forming a dedicated team to improve modules and integration.

Q: What improvements resulted from the assessment?

A: We enhanced capacity and cost management and achieved full automation of change and deployment, boosting operational efficiency.

Q: What are the key technical features of the system?

A: The system uses a two‑site three‑center deployment with high‑availability, dynamic thread scaling, micro‑service architecture, load balancing, and a distributed GaussDB for high scalability and availability.

Q: How do you view the DevOps standard?

A: DevOps is a methodology that integrates development, operations, and quality assurance, enabling data‑driven, intelligent control platforms that improve efficiency and quality across monitoring, management, and service domains.

Q: What are your future plans for DevOps?

A: We aim to advance beyond Level 2, further optimizing our technology operations, promoting standards across the company, and enhancing intelligent and security operations.

Q: What is the outlook for DevOps?

A: As enterprises seek higher efficiency amid rising costs, DevOps’s standardized, precise, and efficiency‑focused approach has a broad future, moving toward full automation and intelligence in cloud‑native and containerized environments.

Industry Participation Details

As of October 26, 2023, the securities and fund industries have participated in DevOps capability maturity assessments, with statistics showing the number of enterprises and assessment counts across various levels.

The "R&D Operations Integration (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model" series standards, led by the China Information Communication Research Institute and co‑created with top internet and financial companies, is the first comprehensive DevOps standard in China and has been adopted by many leading enterprises.

The DevOps standard was officially concluded by the ITU‑T in July 2020, becoming the world’s first international DevOps standard. Its architecture covers agile development management, continuous delivery, technical operations, DevSecOps, system and tool management, business value management, collaborative development, continuous testing, performance measurement, platform engineering, and SRE.

For DevOps assessment inquiries, contact the China Information Communication Research Institute (Liu Kailing, phone 156 5078 6171, email [email protected]; Bai Hanyong, phone 159 1076 9206, email [email protected]) or the Efficient Operations Community (Wei Huanxin, phone 185 0025 5645, email [email protected]).

Source: China CAICT Digital Governance public account.