Senior DevOps Engineer - Trading Platforms

The Pepperstone story started in 2010. We know what it’s like to trade the world’s markets. Our team describes us as a place for the curious and the driven, and we like to do things a little differently; as a transformative global fintech we’re digital, nimble, connected, and united in our vision to create a better way to trade.

We thrive on progress – for our clients and for ourselves. Our organisational culture is ever-evolving, vibrant, diverse, global and results focused. You’ll find our 700+ team across 12 regions and 9 time zones.

The role

Our technology team thrives on collaboration, innovation and continuous learning. We encourage fresh thinking, value technical excellence, and give our engineers the autonomy to make a real impact.

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.

This role reports to the Head of Engineering, Trading Platform. We support flexible working, with this role based in our Limassol office on a hybrid basis. We're also open to a fully remote arrangement for the right candidate.

As our Senior DevOps Engineer – Trading Platforms, your key responsibilities include, but may not be limited to:

• 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

About you

You are passionate about building reliable, scalable platforms that enable engineering teams to move quickly without compromising production stability. You enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges, improving developer experience and driving operational excellence.

You bring:

• 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

Highly desirable

• 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

Why you will enjoy working with us

• 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

More about Pepperstone

We’re a regulated online Forex and CFD trading platform. With the scale of a global fintech and the agility of a start-up, we arm our clients with everything they need to take on the global markets with confidence. You will be part of a wider passionate and friendly team, and whilst things may not always go to plan, we learn quickly and move forward with impact. To learn even more visit Pepperstonecareers.com and www.linkedin.com/company/pepperstone/

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Pepperstone is an equal-opportunity employer. We are passionate about building a diverse workplace and strongly encourage applications from any background.

“We are a 2025 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we respond to every applicant”.

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