Senior Cloud Engineer

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Introduction

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 currently across 12 locations and 9 time zones. 

The Role

Join the Pepperstone IT team as a technical expert in cloud engineering, owning the design, development and maintenance of our cloud-based production systems and services. You'll provide advice, guidance and mentorship to engineers across the business, championing best practice and driving the delivery of highly scalable, efficient cloud solutions. Working closely with the Cloud Engineering Team Lead as you'll play a key role in the continued success of the function.

As our Senior Cloud Engineer, your key responsibilities include, but may not be limited to:

• Effectively deliver on requirements, ensuring the agreed outcomes are achieved within determined timeframes

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement and maintain cloud solutions that are resilient, scalable and secure

• Contribute to the design and management of cloud infrastructures through CI/CD pipelines and automation

• Advocate for and implement best practices for DevOps, Continuous Delivery, including automated testing (BDD, TDD), build and deployment pipelines and observability

• Develop automation strategies to monitor and adjust performant cloud solutions

• Develop and maintain data security processes to ensure networks, data stores, and applications remain secure

• Assist with technical problem solving and provide technical guidance to other engineers and team across the organisation

• Mentor junior engineers and train them on best practice, cloud technologies, software architecture and tools

• Act as a point of escalation during incidents, helping to resolve issues and risks

• Stay up to date with cloud industry trends, technologies and market changes
  

About you

• Extensive experience with AWS Lattice or Private Link

• Bachelor degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Software Engineering, other related certification or equivalent on-the-job experience

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in a cloud, platform or devops role

• Proven ability to manage and drive change in a team environment

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills both written and verbal including the ability to present to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Extensive experience in designing and managing cloud networks, architectures, applications, and services on AWS (Lattice, Private Link, Serverless, Events)

• Expertise in DevOps culture and CI/CD practices

• In-depth knowledge of automation, orchestration, container and serverless technologies (Terraform, Github Actions)

• Experience in incident and issue management

• At least 1-2 years experience in a programming language (Javascript, Python, Golang)

• Understanding of site reliability engineering, observability data types (logs, metrics and tracing) and experience with related tooling

• Committed to ongoing learning and development

• Ability to live the Pepperstone values

Why you will enjoy working with us

• Competitive salary structure including company bonus scheme

• Genuinely collaborative and friendly culture

• Flexible and hybrid working

• Remote working option - work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year, in addition to hybrid working as standard

• Ongoing personal development & learning opportunities

• 15 weeks paid primary carers parental leave & 4 weeks paid secondary carers leave

• 3 paid volunteering days per year & Workplace Giving Program

• Frequent events and celebrations including a standard weekly social

• Beautifully renovated large office at Collins Square - 727 Collins Street, Melbourne

• Best in class end of trip facilities including bicycle parking, change rooms & showers

• A full stocked kitchen, onsite coffee machines with locally sourced coffee beans (this is Melbourne after all) and curated specialty teas

Our technology team thrives on inclusivity and collaboration, believing that diverse perspectives lead to great solutions. We foster a culture that champions individual growth, professional development, and work-life harmony. We're invested in your success and dedicated to supporting you every step of the way. We encourage our team to bring challenge thinking and fresh ideas to the table and our Agile approach empowers us to focus on outcomes. When we hire someone it's because they bring the skills, attitude and experience we're looking for....so we let you do what you're best at! Join us and be part of a community that's passionate about harnessing technology's potential to drive market leading solutions for our clients. Elevate your career in an environment where your ideas matter, your growth is nurtured, and your potential is limitless.