Junior Cloud Engineer

In the fast paced work of FinTech Open Banking, where innovation meets financial services, we are seeking a Junior Cloud Engineer to support our Platform Infrastructure team. As a Junior Cloud Engineer at Yapily, you will support the team in maintaining, learning about, and contributing to our Cloud Infrastructure. You will join a small, but efficient team growing from startup towards enterprise, where you will help us maintain the foundation of how we deploy, store, observe and operate in a regulated multi-national FinTech environment.

Our company has been recognised as a leader in the FinTech industry, with numerous accolades for our innovative products and services. Join our vibrant and collaborative work environment, where ideas are nurtured and creativity thrives. We believe in fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth. With a global presence, you have the opportunity to work with talented professionals around the world, expanding your horizons and making a difference. We value diversity and inclusion, and believe that having a diverse team leads to better innovation and success. We also understand the importance of work life balance and offer flexible working arrangements, ensuring you thrive both professionally and personally.

With our state of the art technology and infrastructure, you will have the tools and resources needed to drive innovation and build ground breaking solutions. We also invest in our employees' growth and development offering a training allowance for every employee, as well as mentorship opportunities. Join us in shaping the future of open banking, and making a real impact in the financial industry.

As a Junior Cloud Engineer at Yapily you will be responsible for:

• Supporting new infrastructure capabilities: Assisting the team in building and documenting new solutions that enable our engineering team to utilise the best and most efficient parts of the cloud.
• Contributing to the developer experience: Helping to maintain and test infrastructure templates and automation scripts to ensure a safe and easy development process.
• Maintaining infrastructure and code deployment flows: Working on deployment pipelines to ensure engineers can build securely and follow all our guidelines and certifications.
• Monitoring infrastructure costs: Assisting the team in reviewing and identifying opportunities for cost efficiencies.
• Collaborating with engineers: Embracing the DevOps culture by working together with engineers to make sure everything works.
• Learning and participating in SRE activities: Training to eventually join the SRE on-call rotation, which is part of the group ensuring Yapily stays up, come rain or snow.

What You’ll Bring

Foundational Knowledge and Experience

• Basic Cloud concepts: Familiarity with the fundamental concepts of cloud computing on AWS, GCP or Azure, and a strong desire to learn best practices for using and operating cloud infrastructure.
• Scripting or Automation: Basic knowledge of scripting (e.g., shell, Python, Ruby, or Golang) and a passion for automating repetitive tasks.
• Containerization fundamentals: An understanding of container concepts, such as Docker, and a willingness to learn about Kubernetes orchestration.
• Familiarity with IaaC: Exposure to Infrastructure-as-Code principles and tools like OpenTofu/Terraform, Packer, or Ansible.

Impress us more by having

• Networking fundamentals: Basic knowledge of networking concepts around TCP/IP, Firewalling and VPCs.
• Security awareness: An understanding of security principles and an interest in learning how to build secure-by-default infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Awareness of regulated workflows: Exposure to concepts like ISO27001, SOC2, or GDPR.
• Observability tools: Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Loki, or Grafana.
• CI/CD process understanding: Knowledge of how CI/CD pipelines work and an interest in learning how to apply templates and guardrails for safe code deployment.

Yapily is an open banking infrastructure platform solving a fundamental problem in financial services today: access. Historically, card networks have monopolised the global movement of money, and banks have monopolised the ownership of, and access to, financial data. Yapily was founded to challenge these structures and create a global open economy that works for everyone. We exist behind the scenes, securely connecting companies - from growth to enterprise - to thousands of banks worldwide, enabling them to access data and initiate payments through the power of open banking.

OUR BENEFITS

• 25 days holiday a year (plus bank holidays) in the UK.
• We also offer an additional holiday day after 1 years service, up to the value of 5 days over 5 years.
• We’re serious about work/life balance and operate hybrid working, giving you the flexibility to work from home, working from our amazing office space or work abroad for up to 30 days per year 'Nomad Working'.
• We offer enhanced Paternity and Maternity leave.
• Comprehensive Private Medical Insurance through BUPA, after passing probation.
• Mental health support through an award winning provider.
• Company Pension Scheme.
• £200 annual Learning and Personal Development budget.
• Cycle To Work Scheme.
• Employee Referral Scheme which offers £1,000 per employee referral.
• We have a monthly social budget to support getting together over pizza.
• Daily snacks provided in the office.
• Dog friendly office.

OUR VALUES

• We obsess about quality. Our customers have entrusted us with a critical function in a regulated industry and we take that responsibility seriously. We always assume ownership and hold ourselves accountable.
• We are curious. Our innovation is powered by our collective growth mindset. We’re lifelong learners who challenge assumptions, experiment, and iterate.
• We act with integrity. We’re guided by our mission and earn and maintain trust by doing what’s right, even when it’s not easy.
• We’re do-ers. We reject indifference and agility is our strength. We’re motivated by challenges, and biased towards action.
• We problem-solve together. We’re diverse people in diverse places, and know the best solutions are born out of collaboration. We win, lose, and learn together.