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Principal Cloud Engineer
Principal Cloud Engineer | Fintech Scale-Up | £140k-£150k + Bonus + Equity | West London (Hybrid)
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
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What We're Looking For
Essential:
- Proven, hands-on Azure expertise (4+ years), Kubernetes/AKS core to this platform
- Strong Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code experience
- Financial services background is a must
- Entrepreneurial, highly autonomous, comfortable with ambiguity
- Right to work in the UK
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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)
💰 £140,000-£150,000, flexible for exceptional candidates
🎯 Bonus: discretionary, targeted around 20%+
📈 Equity scheme, vesting annually over 3 years
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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.
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