Senior 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 are seeking an experienced SeniorCloud Engineer to join our IT team and contribute to the creation of efficient and scalable cloud solutions for Pepperstone. As a senior member of our IT team, you will have the opportunity to provide technical guidance, mentorship, and expertise to our engineers, while also driving the adoption of best practices in cloud engineering.
Your role in this exciting opportunity, working alongside the Cloud Engineering Team, is to help shape the design, development, and upkeep of cutting-edge cloud-based production systems and services.
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:
- Effectively deliver on requirements, ensuring that we achieve the agreed outcomes within the designated 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 by using CI/CD pipelines and automation.
- Advocate for and implement best practices in DevOps and Continuous Delivery, including automated testing (BDD, TDD), build and deployment pipelines, and observability.
- Create automation strategies for monitoring and optimizing cloud solutions' performance.
- Develop and maintain data security processes to ensure the security of networks, data stores, and applications.
- Provide technical guidance and assist other engineers and teams across the organization in solving technical problems.
- Mentor junior engineers and provide training on best practices, cloud technologies, software architecture, and tools.
- Act as a point of escalation during incidents, playing a key role in resolving issues and mitigating risks.
About You:
- 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 architectures, applications, and services
- Expertise in DevOps culture and CI/CD practices
- In-depth knowledge of automation, orchestration, container and serverless technologies
- 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
- 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 development amp; learning opportunities
- 15 weeks paid primary carers parental leave amp; 4 weeks paid secondary carers leave
- 3 paid volunteering days per year amp; Workplace Giving Program
- Frequent even