Guotai Junan’s Journey to Leading DevOps 2+ Certification – A Case Study

Event Overview

On April 7, 2023, the 20th GOPS Global Operations Conference was held in Shenzhen, jointly organized by GreatOPS and OOPSA. The conference, the largest in China’s operations industry, gathered technical staff from internet, finance, and telecom sectors to share advanced practices.

During the event, the China Information & Communication Research Institute announced the latest batch of DevOps standard assessment results.

Guotai Junan’s Assessment

Guotai Junan Securities participated with two projects: “Central Operations System” and “Junhong Junrong Trading Project”. Both passed the China Information & Communication Research Institute’s “R&D‑Operations Integrated (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model” Technical Operations Level 2+ assessment, indicating a leading domestic capability.

Guotai Junan is the first enterprise to have two projects pass the CO2+ assessment in a single submission and has the most CO assessments in the industry to date.

Interview Highlights

Q: How does it feel to achieve the DevOps standard assessment?

A (Zeng Hongxiang, Data Center General Manager): Under the “Three‑Year‑Three‑Step” strategy, Guotai Junan pursues “digital everywhere”, focusing on growth, efficiency, experience, and security, building a “SMART investment bank”. The assessment validates our technical‑operation standards and guides future improvements.

Q: Why were these projects selected for assessment?

A (Zeng Hongxiang): The projects represent core business and trading systems, where stability, efficiency, and risk reduction are critical. The assessment helps identify improvement directions.

Q: What benefits does the DevOps standard bring?

A (Zeng Hongxiang): The standard defines key capabilities for each stage of technical operations, enabling accurate evaluation, targeted improvement, and industry guidance.

Q: What are the future plans for DevOps?

A (Mao Mengfei, Deputy General Manager): Continue to enhance data foundation, develop self‑trained algorithms, explore new application scenarios, and integrate security operations to support digital transformation.

Q: What is the outlook for DevOps?

A (Mao Mengfei): With cloud computing and big data, software delivery becomes more complex; DevOps automates development, testing, deployment, and operations, improving speed, quality, and stability, becoming a competitive advantage.

Q: Please introduce the evaluated projects.

A (Ma Hui, Technical Support Director): “Central Operations” is a 7×24 hour, paper‑less platform handling all customers, channels, and business, improving compliance and reducing risk. “Junhong Junrong” is a quantitative trading system for high‑net‑worth clients, offering algorithmic tools, high availability, and low‑latency execution.

Q: How was the assessment process?

A (Ma Hui): The process was smooth; the team addressed challenges across monitoring, configuration, capacity, continuity, and user experience, completing over 50 improvement items and strengthening the technical‑operation system.

Q: What improvements resulted from the assessment?

A (Zou Jiandong, System Operations Director): Enhanced high‑availability architecture, refined user‑experience platforms, and improved inter‑platform connectivity, leading to finer‑grained operation and a robust smart‑operations management system.

Industry Statistics

As of April 7 2023, the number of enterprises in the securities sector that have passed various DevOps assessment levels is shown in the chart.

DevOps Capability Maturity Model

The “R&D‑Operations Integrated (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model” series standards were jointly developed by the China Information & Communication Research Institute, cloud‑computing open‑source alliance, GreatOPS, and leading internet, finance, and telecom companies. The standards have been published by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and adopted by many major enterprises.

The model covers process (agile management, continuous delivery, technical operations), application design, security and risk management, system and tools, business value management, collaborative development‑operations, and continuous testing.

In July 2020, the DevOps standard became the world’s first international DevOps standard, finalized by the ITU‑T.