How China Galaxy Securities Achieved Level 3 DevOps Continuous Delivery – A Success Story

Domestic and international large‑scale enterprises have shown that standardization and tool empowerment are key to success. The DevOps standards and the DevOps continuous delivery pipeline platform can greatly improve quality, efficiency, safety, and agility, enhancing market competitiveness.

The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) released the "R&D Operations Integration (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model" series, which guides enterprises in implementing DevOps. Banks, securities, insurance, telecom, and internet companies have participated in CAICT assessments, improving their IT capabilities.

On December 15, 2023, the GOLF+ IT New Governance Leadership Forum in Beijing announced the latest DevOps and AIOps assessment results.

China Galaxy Securities participated with three projects: the GLEBA Pricing Engine, the ESB Interface Management Platform, and the Digital Employee Work Platform. All three passed the CAICT DevOps Continuous Delivery Level 3 assessment, reaching a leading domestic level.

Galaxy Securities highlighted that the assessment helped improve personnel, team, and tool capabilities, laying a solid foundation for continuous delivery.

Project Overviews

GLEBA Pricing Engine supports over‑the‑counter derivatives, handling contract bookkeeping, valuation, lifecycle management, risk control, quoting, trade reporting, settlement, and reporting.

ESB Interface Management Platform provides a visual interface for creating, viewing, invoking, and managing enterprise service bus (ESB) interfaces, improving internal coordination and automating interface management.

Digital Employee Work Platform offers backend services for six internal systems, supporting CRM, order management, and service management via ESB for the Galaxy Securities app.

Benefits from the DevOps Assessment

Quality and efficiency rose through automated testing, higher pipeline automation, and reliable releases.

Cross‑functional collaboration increased as departmental walls were broken down, leading to faster information flow.

Continuous improvement was enabled by metrics dashboards that monitor the full software development and delivery lifecycle, allowing rapid bottleneck identification.

Key Metrics After Assessment

Interface test coverage reached 100%, unit test coverage improved significantly, static code issues were eliminated, pipeline repair time stayed within 30 minutes, and deployment success rate hit 100%.

Challenges and Lessons Learned

Tool immaturity required rapid improvements to pipeline stability and integration with testing and container platforms.

Skill gaps were addressed through over 20 training sessions and targeted coaching.

Cultural resistance was mitigated by forming cross‑functional teams, co‑locating staff, and fostering trust.

Future Plans

Galaxy Securities aims to pursue higher DevOps maturity levels, extend continuous delivery practices to more projects, and refine tools and processes to serve as a benchmark for the organization.

Industry Outlook

DevOps offers broad prospects for financial institutions by reducing errors, enhancing security, ensuring compliance, and accelerating innovation, though it requires cultural change, agile practices, and appropriate tooling.