At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and operate Azure environments for a live trading platform.
- Company: High-growth fintech scale-up with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, bonus, equity scheme, and hybrid work model.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with no ceiling on progression or salary.
- Why this job: Shape cloud strategy from day one and lead a team as you grow.
- Qualifications: 4+ years of Azure expertise and financial services background required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Our client is a high-growth, well-funded trading platform business, building a security‑critical, cloud‑native environment for pre‑trade and post‑trade analysis in quant trading. We're hiring a Principal Cloud Engineer to own the Microsoft Azure platform: architecture, security, and hands‑on delivery, with a clear path to building and leading a team as the business scales. This is a greenfield build, not a migration. You'll shape cloud strategy from day one, in a business with no rigid career ladder and no ceiling on progression, salary, or bonus.
WHAT YOU'LL OWN
- Design and operate Azure environments powering a live trading platform (Kubernetes, relational and in‑memory data stores, event streaming infrastructure)
- Define secure, scalable cloud architecture: networking, segmentation, private endpoints, isolation
- Build infrastructure as code with Terraform and Azure CLI
- Own cloud security posture: identity, RBAC, least‑privilege, secrets management, encryption
- Build observability: logging, monitoring, alerting, security events
- Lead cloud‑level incident response and post‑incident reviews
- Define cloud strategy and roadmap, and build a team over time while staying hands‑on
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Proven, hands‑on Azure expertise (4+ years), Kubernetes/AKS core to this platform
- Financial services background is a must
- Entrepreneurial, highly autonomous, comfortable with ambiguity
- Right to work in the UK
- Strongly preferred: Trading platforms, low‑latency systems, or other regulated environments
- Scale‑up or start‑up background, builder not migration specialist
- Comfortable operating without a large supporting team
THE DETAILS
- West London, hybrid (3 days office / 2 remote)
- Bonus: discretionary, targeted around 20%+
- Equity scheme, vesting annually over 3 years
If you're a builder who wants real ownership, no ceiling, and a mission‑critical platform to shape from the ground up, we'd like to hear from you.
