At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and operate Azure environments for a live trading platform using Kubernetes and Terraform.
- Company: Fast-growing fintech trading platform with a dynamic, entrepreneurial culture.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, meaningful equity, hybrid work model, and discretionary bonuses.
- Other info: No rigid career ladder; genuine opportunities for progression and ownership.
- Why this job: Shape real infrastructure decisions and grow into a leadership role in a greenfield project.
- Qualifications: 4+ years of hands-on Azure experience and familiarity with Kubernetes/AKS.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Have you worked in fintech or financial services and built serious things on Azure and Kubernetes? This could be your next move. We're hiring a Cloud Engineer to join a small, senior founding platform function at a fast-growing trading platform business, working hands-on with Azure, AKS, and Terraform from day one. This is a greenfield build, not a migration. You'll be shaping real infrastructure decisions early, with genuine room to grow into a bigger leadership role as the platform and team scale, in a business with no rigid career ladder and no ceiling on progression, salary, or bonus.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build and operate Azure environments powering a live trading platform (Kubernetes, relational and in-memory data stores, event streaming infrastructure)
- Design 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
- Take part in cloud-level incident response and post-incident reviews
- Work closely with the CTO and Tech Lead on cloud strategy, with the opportunity to grow into leading a team over time
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Proven, hands-on Azure expertise (4+ years), Kubernetes/AKS core to this platform
- Entrepreneurial, highly autonomous, comfortable with ambiguity
- Right to work in the UK strongly preferred
- Financial services, fintech, or another regulated environment
- Trading platforms or low-latency systems
- 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%+
- Meaningful equity, vesting annually over 3 years
If you're a hands-on builder looking for real ownership and a mission-critical platform to shape from the ground up, without needing to have run the show before, we'd like to hear from you.
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