Senior DevOps Engineer - Trading Platforms
Pepperstone1 month ago
Limassol, CyprusSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service platform tooling.
- Improve observability through centralized logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, alerting, and operational runbooks.
- Drive automation and Continuous Delivery practices for fast, safe, and reliable releases.
- Improve platform reliability, resilience, developer experience, and operational excellence in partnership with Engineering, Operations, and Technical Leadership.
- 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.
- Continuously improve software delivery processes, automation, and platform tooling for a high-availability trading environment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including significant DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering experience.
- Strong experience building cloud-native infrastructure and services on AWS.
- Deep observability expertise involving logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or ELK.
- Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, 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.
- Experience supporting Java/JVM production services is highly desirable.
- Experience with latency-sensitive or mission-critical distributed systems is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with blue/green, canary, and automated rollback deployment strategies is highly desirable.
- Experience improving developer experience through internal platform engineering and self-service tooling is highly desirable.
Benefits
- Competitive salary structure including a company bonus scheme.
- Flexible and hybrid working, with a fully remote option for the right candidate.
- Ability to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.
- 10 days of company-paid sick leave annually.
- 21 days of paid vacation in the first year, increasing to 25 days after one year.
- Three paid volunteering days per year and a Workplace Giving Program.
- Comprehensive medical insurance, pension fund, employee referral bonuses, personal development and learning opportunities, recognition programs, events, and wellbeing initiatives.
- Role is based in the Limassol office on a hybrid basis, with a convenient office location near Limassol Municipal Garden.