Lead DevOps Engineer

Empowering people with strategic HR and talent solutions Eightcap is a dynamic online trading provider focused on delivering great trading tools and pro trading insight to enable smarter trading. With a commitment to excellence and a passion for delivering trading technology direct to clients and via our network of strategic partners, we are looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to join our team to deliver growth across global markets. The company is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and has offices in the UK, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Philippines, and Bahamas. The Engineering team is essential in ensuring seamless system interoperability and enhancing operational efficiency across the organisation. The Engineering team collaborates to provide the successful candidate with a great knowledge base of the company and the broader financial services industry. The Senior Cloud Engineer plays a strategic and hands‑on role in the design, automation, and management of Eightcap's multi‑region cloud infrastructure. This position combines technical leadership with team management, ensuring cloud environments are highly available, cost‑efficient, and secure. The role involves leading a small team of engineers (typically 2-4 FTEs) responsible for infrastructure automation, monitoring, CI/CD, and working with cloud security. The Senior Cloud Engineer will dedicate approximately 30-40% of their time to management and leadership activities (1.5-2 days per week), with the remaining time focused on architecture, technical delivery, and hands‑on problem solving. Key Responsibilities Cloud Architecture & Operations Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure supporting core trading systems. Manage multi‑region VPC, ECS, and networking topology to ensure high availability and low latency. Drive infrastructure‑as‑code adoption using Terraform. Maintain observability through centralized logging, metrics, and alerting (CloudWatch, Datadog, or Prometheus/Grafana). Implement cost optimization strategies and capacity planning for compute, storage, and network workloads. Allocate and prioritize engineering workloads aligned with strategic goals. Team Leadership & Management Lead and mentor a team of 2-4 Cloud Engineers and DevOps specialists. Allocate and prioritize engineering workloads aligned with strategic goals. Conduct weekly 1:1s, performance reviews, and continuous coaching to support growth. Collaborate closely with the Head of Engineering, Security, and DevOps teams to align delivery with broader company objectives. Foster a culture of accountability, documentation, and proactive problem solving. Security & Compliance Enforce cloud security best practices, IAM least‑privilege policies, and continuous compliance monitoring. Collaborate with the Cybersecurity team on incident response, patching, and configuration hardening. Support ISO‑style audit readiness (infrastructure evidence, risk remediation). Manage secrets, keys, and encryption policies across environments. Design and manage CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) for consistent and auditable deployments. Drive automation in provisioning, configuration management, and patching processes. Partner with application engineering teams to enable self‑service infrastructure workflows and standardized templates. Collaboration & Cross‑Functional Projects Partner with developers, data engineers, and security analysts to enable reliable service delivery. Contribute to architectural reviews, incident post‑mortems, and capacity planning sessions. Document standards, runbooks, and architecture diagrams to ensure operational transparency. Requirements Proven experience managing or mentoring cloud or DevOps engineers. 5+ years of experience in AWS architecture, infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform preferred), and automation. Strong understanding of networking, security groups, IAM, and encryption. Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI). Familiarity with observability stacks (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog). Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or Go). Exposure to compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2). Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills. Experience in financial services, fintech, or high‑availability trading systems. Familiarity with cloud cost management and tagging frameworks. AWS Certified Solutions Architect or DevOps Professional certification. Exposure to Infrastructure Security or DevSecOps practices. Benefits Why Eightcap? Ongoing investment in your career development. Wellness and lifestyle perks like monthly corporate massages. Parental leave. Staff referral bonus program. Employee‑purchased leave. Annual flu vaccinations. Complimentary fruit. Multicultural environment. A dynamic and collaborative team culture. Great CBD location with easy access to public transport. Regular social activities. Are you interested in this opportunity but don't meet every requirement? Eightcap endeavours to create an inclusive and diverse workforce by offering an opportunity for the right people and so we encourage you to apply. We respectfully ask that no recruiters contact anyone at Eightcap regarding this role. #J-18808-Ljbffr