DevOps Engineer, Perpetuals

Job Overview

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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 Skills

• 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).

About Pepperstone

Pepperstone is 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.

Benefits

• 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