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 550+ team currently across 11 locations and 9 time zones.
The Role
As a member of the Payment team, the Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable solutions that enhance payment workflows.
You will collaborate closely with development teams across the organisation to identify pain points and create self-service solutions, tools, and automation that simplify infrastructure management, CI/CD pipelines, and development environments. Your focus will be on driving consistency, reliability, and ease of use across the engineering ecosystem while advocating for best practices and continuous improvement in developer workflows. Your contributions will play a key role in enabling engineers to focus on delivering high-quality software faster and more efficiently.
As our Senior DevOps Engineer, your key responsibilities include:
- Establish robust quality and automation best practices, tooling, and processes.
- Create documentation and resources for engineers to leverage those tools effectively.
- Work closely with Technical Leadership to plan and prioritise developer experience focused initiatives.
- Assist teams with hands-on training and delivery as part of their team as a secondment when implementing engineering platforms.
- Design, build, test, and support self-service platforms and tooling for development teams across the organisation.
- Develop a robust, automated, and Continuous Delivery practice within the team, prioritising rapid feedback loops.
- Develop high-quality, timely solutions collaboratively with the team and members throughout the engineering function across various technologies.
- Lead technical projects, including architecture and design decisions, code reviews/pairing, and mentoring of junior team members.
- Assist with technical problem solving and provide technical guidance to other engineers and teams across the organisation on ways to improve, uplift and complement their developer experience.
- Contribute to the improvement of software development lifecycle processes
- Participate in and, at times, facilitating Engineering Dojos and other ceremonies.
About You
- 5+ years of software engineering experience having spent some of that time as a Platform or “DevOps” engineer.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal including the ability to present to and influence different levels of stakeholders
- Expertise in IaC and automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, GitHub Actions, etc.
- Experience in designing and managing cloud architectures, applications, and services on AWS.
- In-depth knowledge of DevOps, automation, orchestration, container and serverless technologies.
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
- Ongoing personal development & learning opportunities
- Paid annual leave and paid sick leave
- 3 paid volunteering days per year & Workplace Giving Program
- Periodic recognition and reward programs for outstanding performance and achievements
- Frequent events and celebrations
- Employee Assistance Program & Wellbeing Initiatives
- Convenient and cozy office located in the heart of Budapest
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 Pepperstonecareers.com and www.linkedin.com/company/pepperstone/
We understand it’s important to do due diligence on a prospective employer, and see what our team is saying on Glassdoor. 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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