Cloud Engineer

The Role

Fastmarkets is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our worldwide Cloud Engineering team. The team builds the secure performant and scalable cloud and infrastructure platforms  predominantly Azure  that our customer-facing products and internal applications run on.

Reporting to the Cloud Lead you will design build and maintain that infrastructure as code deliver secure integrations and modernise how we build and deploy. This is a hands-on engineering role: everything is infrastructure as code secure by design and built with cost operability and supportability in mind.

You will work closely with Engineering Data InfoSec and IT Operations teams and be expected to bring sound technical judgement able to steer requests towards the right architecture not just deliver what was asked for.

Principal Accountabilities

• Infrastructure as Code design and maintain Terraform for Azure; build plan-only CI remote state resource import and reusable modules.
• CI/CD & DevOps build GitHub Actions pipelines and migrate legacy CI/CD (TeamCity Octopus Deploy) onto modern workflows.
• Containers & deployment containerise and deploy applications to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Docker Kustomize ArgoCD (GitOps) Sealed Secrets and Traefik ingress.
• Secure integrations deliver integrations between external services and Azure using managed identities service principals and scoped RBAC.
• Security & governance perform security discovery and audits drive zero-trust and credential-lockdown work and take designs through security review gates.
• Documentation & enablement produce inventories architecture docs runbooks and reusable patterns and templates the wider team can adopt.

Qualifications :

We recruit talented dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences all united by a belief in our mission to provide the worlds leading and most trusted price reporting events and intelligence service for the markets we serve. Were proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded curious resilient solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality then read on.

KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated driven and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

Essential

• 24 years in Cloud Engineering DevOps platform engineering or infrastructure roles building and changing production systems in Azure.
• Microsoft Azure Resource Groups Virtual Networks/Subnets Storage Accounts Azure SQL Key Vault Application Gateway VMs/VMSS NSGs.
• Azure networking & Private Link Private Endpoints Private DNS Zones VNet links storage firewalls and IP allowlisting locking down public network access.
• Terraform plan/apply workflows remote state import blocks modules foreach with data-driven tfvars lifecycle rules per-environment configuration.
• GitHub Actions Terraform plan/apply with approval gates build/test/deploy pipelines Git branching and PR review.
• Containers & Kubernetes Docker (digest-pinned images non-root containers) AKS and core Kubernetes primitives (Deployments Services NetworkPolicy ResourceQuota ConfigMaps/Secrets).
• Scripting Python PowerShell and Bash for automation; comfortable with HCL and YAML.
• Identity & security Microsoft Entra ID (service principals group-based access) least-privilege Azure RBAC secrets management (Key Vault GitHub Secrets) and zero-trust principles.
• Production troubleshooting structured root-cause analysis under pressure; able to tell expected behaviour from genuine misconfiguration.
• Risk awareness sequences privileged changes safely builds security gates into plans early and rehearses changes outside production first.
• Documentation discipline and a standardisation mindset turns one-off solutions into reusable patterns.

Desirable

• Migrating legacy build systems (TeamCity Octopus Deploy; .NET C Delphi toolchains) onto GitHub Actions.
• GitOps with ArgoCD Kustomize and Helm; Kubernetes add-ons such as KEDA Traefik and Sealed Secrets; Azure Container Registry.
• Configuration management with Ansible.
• Building internal developer-platform or self-service deployment tooling.
• Building internal apps and APIs with Python (Flask FastAPI).
• Using AI/LLM APIs (e.g. Anthropic Claude Azure OpenAI) to speed up engineering work.
• Exposure to Snowflake or other cloud data platforms.

If youre excited about the role but your experience skills or qualifications dont perfectly align we encourage you to apply anyway.

Additional Information :

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. Its this mix of brilliant personalities experiences and insights that gives us that warm open and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are there are six things we all have in common and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and theyre embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers experience and our business performance
   
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
   
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
   
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
   
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
   
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect perspectives and experiences.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

Reward and benefits at Fastmarkets

We believe in fair pay and benefits that support you both inside and outside of work. Through Fastmarkets Rewards youll have access to a range of core benefits and a flexible allowance giving you the freedom to tailor your package to suit your lifestyle wellbeing and financial priorities. We know that everyones needs are different so weve designed our benefits to support our diverse global team wherever theyre based.

Specific benefits may vary by country and role.

Youve read a little about us now its over to you!

If you like what youve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person its time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: its used to determine whether or not youll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions well ask you on the day.

Its vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why youre great.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time