Senior DevOps Engineer - Trading Platforms
Pepperstone3 months 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.
About Pepperstone
Pepperstone is a Melbourne‑headquartered, privately held online broker for forex and CFDs serving retail and professional traders worldwide. Founded in 2010 and owned by CPE Capital, it offers trading in FX, indices, commodities, cryptocurrencies and more via MetaTrader and cTrader platforms, with regulation across major jurisdictions (e.g., ASIC and FCA). Revenue comes from spreads, commissions, and financing on leveraged products.