Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer - 18 Month Maximum Term Contract

If you also believe that everyone should be able to achieve their financial potential, then you’ll love contributing to CMC Markets’ company vision of providing the ultimate trading experience. Seize the opportunity to progress your career in the fintech industry by joining a global leader in CFD trading and share investing. Grow yourself personally and professionally with a company that’s growing with you, by global expansion and product offering.

As a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer in the Transformation Engineering squad within our Technology Development department, you'll have the opportunity to shape how development teams across the organisation build, deploy, and operate applications on AWS.

Reporting directly to the Principal Transformation Engineer, You'll design multi-squad infrastructure that needs to be both bulletproof and flexible, balancing security requirements with developer velocity.

Your work will directly impact traders and investors worldwide, and you'll see the tangible results of your infrastructure decisions in real-time trading systems. You'll work with modern technologies (ECS Fargate, Lambda, Terraform, CDK) and have the autonomy to introduce new tools and practices that genuinely improve how the organisation operates.

Why You'll like working here

Just some of the reasons you’ll love working here include:

• Leave benefits: Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends, on us! Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community.

• $0 Trades: Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market - $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders!

• Continuous learning: Our L&D offering covers both technical and performance training, ensuring you're always learning new skills.

• Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts, and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing

• Collaboration: We believe that great things happen when smart people work together, that’s why we’ve made the decision to work five days in the office.
   

• Office perks: Help yourself to free breakfast cereals, condiments, and coffee to fuel your workday. Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone whether you’re into fitness, pizza making classes, socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!

What you’ll be working on

• Enable development squads to deploy and operate applications swiftly, safely, and reliably on AWS with strong guardrails and self-service patterns. 

• Lead the design and evolution of secure, resilient, and cost-optimised AWS architectures (cloud native, multi-AZ, autoscaling, graceful degradation, failover, capacity planning). 

• Drive adoption of AWS-native services and IaC (Terraform & CDK) to standardise platform components and reduce drift. 

• Ownership of all AWS base infrastructure across multiple squads. 

• Implement event-driven & streaming patterns (e.g., SQS, Kafka).urto 

• Design and maintain container and serverless platforms (ECS Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway). 

• Embed robust security across pipeline & runtime (least privilege IAM, KMS encryption, secret management, policy-as-code, runtime security & compliance checks). 

• Lead incident response readiness: on-call playbooks, simulations (GameDays), post-incident reviews with blameless culture, and systematic remediation tracking. 

• Mentor and upskill .NET and TypeScript developers in reliability, observability, performance, and deployment best practices. 

• Continuously improve CI/CD release workflows (GitHub Actions) emphasising deployment frequency, change failure rate reduction, progressive delivery (feature flags / canaries), and automated rollback. 

• Configure and maintain observability stacks using Grafana, Opsgenie, and Open Telemetry to monitor applications and infrastructure.  

• Assist and educate .NET Developers, enhancing our tooling and automation capabilities.  

What will help you be successful?

We’re seeking a skilled DevOps or Platform Engineer with deep expertise in AWS, infrastructure as code, and modern automation practices. You’ll bring at least five years of experience managing scalable cloud environments using services like ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, and CloudWatch, along with strong skills in Terraform, AWS CDK, and TypeScript (with .NET as a bonus). A solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, networking, and cloud security frameworks is essential, as is familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana and Opsgenie. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced environment, solving complex problems and collaborating across teams to deliver secure, efficient, and high-performing systems.

You must hold full working rights in Australia to be eligible for this role.

The things we live by

CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our people feel confident to be themselves, feel valued and are able to do their best work. We don’t just value differences and unique perspectives, we seek them out and we invite them in, because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone

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We’re always on the lookout for great people, so even if you don’t feel you are a 100% fit, apply with your up-to-date CV and we’ll consider you for this role and any other suitable opportunities across the business. 

 We look forward to hearing from you! 

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