Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer

Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Department: Engineering

Workplace: on_site

Employment Type: full

Description

Eightcap operates at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and global financial markets. Headquartered in Melbourne with a global footprint spanning the UK, Cyprus, and Bulgaria, we build the high-performance infrastructure that connects the world to CFD markets - reliably, securely and with precision.

We're after an engineer who treats infrastructure as software: versioned, reviewed, tested and released. Someone who is as comfortable reviewing a Terraform pull request as they are tracing a production latency spike, and who leaves every codebase, pipeline and security posture better than they found it. The Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer will own the health, security and evolution of the AWS estate that our trading services, client-facing applications and internal systems run on.

To drive real impact in this role, you will:

• Own the Cloud Platform: Design, build and operate our multi-account AWS environments, with Terraform as the backbone for every change, from modules to drift detection to plan-and-review.
• Build the Paved Road: Own CI/CD in GitHub Actions and build boilerplates for .NET, Go and Python so teams can ship standardised, production-ready environments with minimal friction.
• Engineer Security In: Apply least-privilege IAM, secrets management, network controls and CSPM tooling like Wiz, and embed scanning and policy-as-code directly into pipelines.
• Automate Compliance: Build continuous evidence and controls against SOC 2, ISO 27001 and the AWS Well-Architected Framework, so audit readiness is always on, not a scramble.
• Own Observability and Reliability: Run the CloudWatch stack, define SLOs, lead incident response and post-incident reviews, and keep runbooks sharp enough for another engineer to follow.
• Lead Without the Title: Set platform standards, review infrastructure and pipeline changes from other engineers, mentor the team on cloud and security practice and help shape the roadmap.
• Partner Across the Business: Work closely with Infrastructure and Security, Product Engineering squads and Trading Platform Operations to keep the estate secure, resilient and easy to build on.

Requirements

What You'll Bring:

• Significant hands-on experience designing, building and operating production AWS workloads, including multi-account setups, VPC networking, IAM, EC2, Lambda, Fargate, RDS and CloudWatch.
• Expert-level Terraform, including authoring reusable modules, managing remote state and refactoring live infrastructure without downtime.
• Strong GitHub Actions experience across application and infrastructure pipelines, with secure credential handling.
• A genuine software engineering background in at least one general-purpose language (Python, Go, TypeScript or C#), with tests, code review and release discipline as habit.
• Demonstrable cloud security engineering, including least-privilege IAM, RBAC, SSO, MFA, secrets management and remediation using CSPM tooling such as Wiz.
• Experience automating compliance evidence against ISO 27001, SOC 2 and the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• A track record leading incidents and post-incident reviews under real change control.
• Clear communication skills, including writing design docs and explaining trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Availability for an on-call rotation and occasional out-of-hours maintenance.
• Bonus if you hold an AWS Professional or Security certification, have worked in a regulated financial services environment (ASIC, FCA or CySEC), have exposure to trading platforms, low-latency systems or market data, or have contributed to a pen test remediation or certification cycle.

Benefits

What's it like to work at Eightcap?

We have built a performance-driven environment where you're given the autonomy to drive change and the accountability to own the results. We provide a space for the ambitious, adaptable and collaborative to deliver outcomes that fuel our success while building the skills and experience that defines a career.

We also support you through:

• Ongoing investment in your career development, including technical and professional training.
• Wellness and lifestyle perks, such as monthly corporate massages.
• Drinks every Friday.
• Parental leave entitlements.
• Staff referral bonus programme.
• Annual flu vaccinations.
• Purchased leave.
• Novated leasing options for vehicle financing and management.
• A great CBD location with easy access to public transport.
• A multicultural, collaborative and supportive team culture.
• Being part of exciting new projects for the company.
• Regular social activities.