How Guoxin Securities Accelerated Digital Transformation with a DevOps 2+ Technical Operations Assessment

Large enterprises worldwide have proven that standardization and tool empowerment are key to success. The DevOps standards and the DevOps continuous delivery pipeline platform can significantly improve quality and efficiency, making companies more secure, agile, and competitive.

On December 26, 2022, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) announced the latest batch of DevOps standard assessment results.

Guoxin Securities participated with the "Qiankun Centralized Operations Platform Non‑Onsite Account Opening Project," which passed the CAICT’s "Research‑Operation Integration (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model" Technical Operations Standard Level 2+ assessment, indicating a leading domestic capability in DevOps.

Currently, Guoxin Securities has one project that passed the DevOps continuous delivery standard assessment, two projects that passed the DevOps technical operations standard assessment, and one project that passed the DevSecOps standard assessment.

Assessment Unit: China Academy of Information and Communications Technology

Presenting officials: Ms. Dai Xiaohui, Vice Chairman and Secretary‑General of the China Communications Standardization Association, and Mr. He Baohong, Director of the Cloud Computing and Big Data Research Institute, CAICT

We interviewed Mr. Yang Yang, Head of System Operations, and Mr. Li Feng, Head of Trading System Development, to discuss the details and stories behind the project and share Guoxin Securities’ DevOps practice experience.

Q&A

Q: Please introduce the project you evaluated.

Yang Yang: Guoxin Securities has long pursued digital transformation, investing heavily in fintech. The Qiankun Centralized Operations Platform non‑onsite account opening system is a self‑developed digital platform that integrates acceptance, review, and management, offering 24/7 services such as remote account opening, multi‑channel terminal opening, and business permission management.

We innovatively implemented a containerized micro‑service for non‑onsite account opening, improving efficiency by over 23% compared with traditional monolithic systems.

Q: How does the technical operations 2+ assessment feel?

Yang Yang: Our team aims to build a stable, efficient, secure, and user‑friendly data center operation service. We follow a development path of standardization → automation → platformization → digitalization, continuously enhancing technical operation capabilities and service quality.

We integrate industry regulations, ISO‑20000, and DevOps technical operation specifications, focusing on monitoring, management, control, analysis, and operation to build a comprehensive operation management system, enabling rapid fault detection, intelligent diagnostics, and multi‑dimensional automation.

The assessment validates our technical operation system and acknowledges years of exploration and practice.

Q: How did you select the project for evaluation?

Yang Yang: We chose a core business system that aligns with future technology evolution, allowing us to build organization‑wide capabilities through platformization.

Q: What improvements resulted from the assessment?

Yang Yang: We enhanced high‑availability architecture for applications, databases, and caches, continuously built and refined operation tools and platforms, and achieved 24/7 availability. We also improved management and technical assurance systems, achieving full‑process, full‑cycle, and full‑coverage control.

Q: What are the future plans for DevOps?

Yang Yang: Building on the platform capabilities of the Qiankun project, we will extend improvements to other core backend systems, formulate organization‑level technical operation standards, and promote rapid replication to deliver superior service experiences.

Q: What are the technical highlights of the system?

Li Feng: The platform follows a “front‑end unified terminal, middle‑end centralized service, back‑end business connectivity” architecture, leveraging AI technologies such as facial recognition, OCR, and voice recognition. It adopts micro‑frontend + micro‑service, low‑code/high‑code development, and agile + DevOps integration.

Intelligent: AI integrated into business processes to improve efficiency and reduce costs.

Agile: Breaking system silos to create high‑speed hubs, enhancing processes and customer experience.

Integrated: A unified acceptance‑review‑management workflow with real‑time BI dashboards.

Q: What challenges did you face during implementation?

Li Feng: We tackled user‑experience gaps by adopting industry‑leading solutions and performed technical breakthroughs in event reporting, data tracking, and user interaction. We also solved dynamic scaling challenges for high‑risk financial software, achieving stable auto‑scaling.

Q: How does the DevOps standard help your enterprise?

Li Feng: The standard defines maturity levels and performance metrics, allowing us to visualize gaps, set improvement goals, and continuously measure and enhance our capabilities, ultimately boosting development efficiency and system reliability.

DevOps Capability Maturity Model Overview

The model, led by CAICT with contributions from top internet, finance, and telecom companies, is the most comprehensive and authoritative DevOps standard, recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and adopted by many leading enterprises.

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

For assessment inquiries, contact CAICT (Liu Kailiang) or the Efficient Operations Community (Wei Huanxin).