Principal Cloud Engineer
Pepperstone, Australia
Job Description
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 organizational culture is ever-evolving, vibrant, diverse, global and results focused. You’ll find our 350+ team currently across 9 locations and various time zones.
The Role:
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 its because they are bring the skills, attitude and experience we're looking for.so we let you do what your 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.
We're looking for a PrincipalCloud Engineer to join our IT team and help us build efficient and scalable cloud solutions for Pepperstone. As a senior member of the Pepperstone IT team, you will provide technical expertise in cloud and lead the design, development and maintenance of our cloud based infrastructure.
Working closely with the Cloud Engineering Team Lead in Melbourne, the Principal Cloud Engineer will be the go-to person for all things related to cloud technology and CI/CD Pipelines. Your role will involve guiding and supporting other engineers, as well as promoting the use of best practices across the organization.
We value open communication and teamwork, and your contributions will be crucial in ensuring the smooth operation of our cloud infrastructure.
Your day-day responsibilities include but not limited to:
- Delivering on requirements efficiently, ensuring timely achievement of agreed outcomes
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop and implement cloud solutions that offer resilient architectures, scalability, and reliability
- Leading the design and management of cloud infrastructure through CI/CD pipelines and automation processes
- Advocating and driving the adoption of best practices for DevOps and Continuous Delivery, including automated testing (BDD, TDD), build and deployment pipelines, and observability
- Implementing automation strategies to effectively monitor and optimize cloud solutions performance
- Establishing and maintaining data security processes to ensure the security of networks, data stores, and applications
- Acting as the point of escalation during incidents, helping to resolve issues and mitigate risks
- Leading technical problem-solving efforts and provide guidance to other engineers
- Mentoring junior engineers and provide training on cloud technologies and tools
About You:
- At least 5 years of expertise in professional software development is required. You should have prior experience working within an agile team setup, and ideally, you have also led a project or a team of engineers for a certain period of time.
- Expertise in DevOps culture and CI/CD practices
- Strong experience in incident and issue management
- Strong understanding of site reliability engineering, observability data types (logs, metrics and tracing) and experience with related tooling
- In-depth knowledge of automation, orchestration, container and serverless technologies
- Proven capability to effectively manage and drive organizational change (technical)
- Extensive experience in designing and managing cloud architectures, applications, and services
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present to and influence stakeholders at various levels
- Commitment to ongoing learning and development by staying up to date with cloud industry trends, technologies and market changes
- Current and full working rights in Australia.
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 6 weeks per year, in addition to hybrid working as standard
- Ongoing personal dev