Senior DevOps Engineer - Trading Platforms

Join us as a Senior DevOps Engineer – Trading Platforms and help power the platform at the heart of Pepperstone's business. Our regulated trading platform processes real client orders, margin and money in real time, where reliability, scalability and operational excellence are critical to every release. You'll design and build the infrastructure, automation and observability that enable our engineering teams to deliver high-quality software quickly and safely. Working closely with Core Engineering, Operations and Platform teams, you'll improve deployment pipelines, strengthen monitoring and incident readiness, and build self-service tooling that enhances both developer experience and production reliability.

Responsibilities

Design, build and maintain scalable infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and self-service platform tooling; Improve platform observability through centralized logging, metrics, tracing, alerting and operational runbooks; Drive automation and Continuous Delivery practices that enable fast, safe and reliable software releases; Partner with Engineering, Operations and Technical Leadership to improve platform reliability, resilience and developer experience; Support production readiness through capacity planning, failover strategies, environment management and recovery tooling; Lead technical initiatives, contribute to architecture decisions, mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices across the organisation; Continuously improve software delivery processes, automation and platform tooling to support a high-availability trading environment

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering; Strong experience building cloud-native infrastructure and services on AWS; Deep expertise in observability, including logging, metrics, tracing and monitoring platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or ELK; Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation or similar tools; Strong understanding of CI/CD, automation, containers and modern DevOps practices; Experience designing highly available, secure and scalable production environments; Excellent communication skills and experience collaborating across distributed engineering teams

Nice to have

Experience supporting Java/JVM production services; Experience with latency-sensitive or mission-critical distributed systems; Familiarity with deployment strategies such as blue/green, canary and automated rollback; Experience improving developer experience through internal platform engineering and self-service tooling

Benefits

Competitive salary structure including company bonus scheme; Flexible and hybrid working; Remote working option - work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year; 10 days of Company paid sick leave annually; 21 days of paid vacation within the first year of employment, increasing to 25 days after one year; 3 paid volunteering days per year & Workplace Giving Program; Comprehensive medical insurance with coverage for your healthcare needs; Pension fund; Employee referral bonuses for referring top talent to the company; Ongoing personal development & learning opportunities; Periodic recognition and reward programs for outstanding performance and achievements; Frequent events and celebrations; Genuinely collaborative and friendly culture; Employee Assistance Program & Wellbeing Initiatives; Convenient and cozy office located near the Limassol Municipal Garden