DevOps Engineer, Perpetuals

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

We are looking for an experienced DevOps / SRE Engineer, Perps to own and operate the full cloud infrastructure for a high-availability Futures trading platform, including production, disaster recovery, observability, and security. You will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure provisioning, and ensure the platform meets the availability and reliability standards required for a 24/7 trading environment. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who has operated trading-grade systems at scale and thrives in an environment where reliability, speed, and precision are essential.

As our DevOps / SRE Engineer, your key responsibilities include, but may not be limited to: 

• Design and operate a multi-region cloud production environment with hot/warm DR, sub-15-minute RTO, sub-1-minute RPO.
• Provision and maintain Kubernetes, managed databases, in-memory caches, message brokers, and CDN, sized for the throughput and latency requirements of a live trading platform.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for backend services, web frontend, and native mobile apps.
• Stand up the observability stack covering metrics, logs, traces, and on-call paging, wired to the risk notification and alerting system.
• Implement WAF, DDoS protection, and trading-platform-grade secrets management.
• Co-own the on-call rotation; define severity criteria, runbooks, and blameless post-mortems.
• Lead infosec and vendor due-diligence workflows including evidence collection for audits and regulator-facing artefacts.

Job Requirements

• 5+ years DevOps/SRE experience on a regulated trading platform; direct experience at a CEX or DEX strongly preferred.
• Production-grade AWS at scale (multi-region, Kubernetes, IAM, VPC, KMS). Terraform mandatory.
• Experience with high-availability databases, in-memory cache HA, and partitioned message brokers.
• Experience maintaining reliability in large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong incident response and production troubleshooting skills.
• Committed to ongoing learning and development.

Desirable:

• Experience operating self-hosted exchange or trading-platform stacks at production scale.
• Hands-on use of agentic AI tooling (e.g., Claude) for runbook authoring, infra-as-code review, and incident triage.
• Conversational English and Mandarin Chinese (verbal + written).

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 
• Paid parental leave 
• 3 paid volunteering days per year & Workplace Giving Program 
• 24/7 support when you need it most - an Employee Assistance Program 
• Frequent events and celebrations 

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  and   

We understand it’s important to do due diligence on a prospective employer, see what our team are saying on . We respect our team members’ experiences and will never pay to remove a negative review.  

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”.  

We will be reviewing applications as they come through, so if this is an opportunity that excites you, don't wait. Express your interest by clicking the apply button below as soon as possible.  

Note to external agencies: While we appreciate the efforts of external recruitment agencies, we prefer to engage directly with applicants for this opportunity.  

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