How Everbright Securities Achieved Top‑Tier DevOps Maturity and Boosted Efficiency

On October 26, 2023, the 21st GOPS Global Operations Conference was held in Shanghai, where the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) announced the latest results of its DevOps standards assessments.

Everbright Securities’ "Sunshine E‑Office" project successfully passed the CAICT "Research and Development Operations Integration (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model" Continuous Delivery Level‑3 evaluation, indicating that the company’s DevOps capabilities are among the domestic leaders.

Everbright Securities, a pioneering securities firm approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission and a core financial platform of the Fortune Global 500 China Everbright Group, has a long history and extensive nationwide presence. In recent years, the firm’s growing business demands have driven heavy investment in DevOps automation, enabling the project to reach Level‑3 maturity.

Adopting the DevOps standards has brought several concrete changes: development processes have become more transparent, standardized, automated, and digitalized; collaboration efficiency and delivery quality have improved; data silos across stages have been broken; testing coverage has increased; automated testing, security scanning, and quality gates have reduced defect‑fix time, lowered vulnerability risk, shortened delivery cycles, and raised deployment success rates.

The integrated platform automates most workflows, incorporates left‑shift testing, and ensures quality and safety through artifact dependency scanning, unit testing, code analysis, health checks, smoke testing, and UI automation. These practices have significantly boosted development efficiency, quality, and security.

Looking ahead, Everbright Securities plans to continue deepening DevOps practice, refine its tool platform, and promote broader adoption across the organization, aiming to elevate its continuous delivery capability to a new height.

In the broader context, the digital economy is a key growth driver for China, and DevOps is a powerful enabler for digital transformation in the financial sector, delivering faster business value and stronger operational assurance.

Industry statistics (as of October 26, 2023) show the number of securities and fund companies participating in DevOps capability maturity assessments, highlighting the growing adoption of DevOps standards.

The "Research and Development Operations Integration (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model" series, led by CAICT with contributions from top internet, finance, and telecom enterprises, is the first comprehensive DevOps standard worldwide. It has been officially released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and adopted by many leading enterprises. The model covers process management, continuous delivery, technical operations, DevSecOps, system and tool assessment, business value management, collaborative development, continuous testing, performance measurement, platform engineering, and reliability engineering.