How Guoxin Securities Reached Leading DevOps Maturity in a 3‑Level Assessment

Background

On May 21, 2021, the 16th GOPS Global Operations Conference was held in Shenzhen, organized by the Open Source Cloud Computing Alliance (OSCAR), GreatOPS, and OOPSA. The conference is the largest domestic event for operations professionals from internet, finance, and telecom sectors.

Assessment Results

During the conference, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) announced the 12th batch of DevOps standard continuous delivery assessment results. Guoxin Securities’ Gold Sun Information Platform passed the Level‑3 continuous delivery assessment, a benchmark indicating leading domestic capability. Guoxin Securities became the third securities firm nationwide to achieve this level.

Interview Overview

We interviewed Chief Engineer Liu Hanxi and Channel Product Development Department General Manager Xue Zhongyi to discuss their DevOps journey.

Q&A

Q: Please introduce your company and the project evaluated. Liu Hanxi: Guoxin Securities, founded in Shenzhen, is a large national securities firm. Our Gold Sun platform provides real‑time market data, trading, and wealth management services, serving over 16 million registered users and 7 million securities customers.

Q: How does passing the Level‑3 assessment feel? Liu Hanxi: It validates years of effort, showing our platform now supports end‑to‑end automated value delivery, improving development, testing, and operations integration, boosting efficiency, reducing costs, and supporting digital transformation.

Q: Why did you decide to join the DevOps standard assessment? Liu Hanxi: To meet the challenges of digitalization, information security, and architectural evolution, we needed agile IT delivery. The assessment helped measure and improve our development efficiency, aligning with our strategy of digital, intelligent, agile, and group‑wide IT.

Q: What benefits has the assessment brought? Xue Zhongyi: It has modernized our technology platform, enabling a shift to agile development, enhancing core technology autonomy, and improving responsiveness to business changes. Our microservice‑based Gold Sun platform, built on the Simba efficiency platform, has greatly increased agile development capability.

Q: What measurable improvements resulted from the assessment? Xue Zhongyi: Delivery cycle reduced from 1.5 months to one week, unit test coverage rose from 40% to 84.39%, automated test coverage reached 100% with a 97.99% success rate, and pipeline build and deployment success rates hit 100%.

Q: How was the project planned and designed? Xue Zhongyi: The Gold Sun platform adopted a self‑developed microservice architecture with containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and security tools. The assessment served as a pilot to achieve end‑to‑end tool integration and set a benchmark for internal DevOps capability.

Q: What challenges did you face during the assessment? Xue Zhongyi: Initially, the team lacked DevOps theory and technical depth, making integration of requirements, development, testing, deployment, and security difficult. We addressed this by learning from leading internet companies, hiring experienced DevOps talent, and introducing advanced tools with strong leadership support.

Q: What are the biggest gains and future plans? Xue Zhongyi: We built the Simba efficiency platform, integrated the full development lifecycle, and cultivated scarce DevOps talent. Future plans include extending the platform across all business domains, creating a unified portal for diverse development scenarios, and establishing a maturity grading system for continuous improvement.

Q: How do you view the future of DevOps? Xue Zhongyi: Gartner cites DevOps as one of six key factors for successful digital transformation. It unifies demand, development, testing, deployment, and operations, enabling agile development, continuous delivery, and seamless application operation, becoming the foundation of IT digitalization.

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