A post-Series B open banking infrastructure company is looking for a Junior Cloud Engineer to join a small, high-functioning platform team. You'll be helping maintain and evolve the cloud foundation that underpins a regulated, multi-national FinTech environment - learning as you go, with real mentorship and room to grow into SRE responsibilities over time.
If you're early in your cloud career and want to join a team that takes quality seriously without taking itself too seriously, this is a great place to start.
- Company Culture
- Obsesses about quality - customers operate in a regulated industry and the team holds itself accountable to match
- Curious by default - a growth mindset is baked in, with continuous learning actively encouraged and funded
- Bias towards action - agility is a strength, and indifference is rejected
- Collaborative problem-solvers - diverse team, diverse places, best solutions come from working together
- Integrity-led - doing what's right, even when it isn't easy
- Dog-friendly London office, monthly social budget, and a genuine commitment to work-life balance
- What's on Offer
- Salary: up to £70,00025 days holiday plus bank holidays, with an additional day per year of service (up to 5 extra days)
- Hybrid working - 2 days in the London office, with up to 30 days per year "Nomad Working" (work from abroad)
- Comprehensive private medical insurance (post-probation)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- 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 - £1,000 per successful referral
What You'll Be Doing
- Supporting the team in building and documenting new cloud infrastructure capabilities that help engineers use the best and most efficient parts of the cloud
- Maintaining and testing infrastructure templates and automation scripts to ensure a safe, smooth developer experience
- Working on deployment pipelines so engineers can build securely and in line with all guidelines and certifications
- Monitoring infrastructure costs and identifying opportunities for efficiency improvements
- Collaborating closely with engineers across the business, embracing a DevOps culture
- Training towards joining the SRE on-call rotation - playing a key role in keeping the platform up and running
What We're Looking For
- Cloud Infrastructure (Core Requirement)
- Familiarity with fundamental cloud computing concepts on AWS, GCP, or Azure, and a strong desire to learn best practices for operating cloud infrastructure
- Exposure to Infrastructure-as-Code principles and tools such as Terraform
- Scripting and Automation
- Basic scripting knowledge (Python, Go, shell, or similar) and a genuine passion for automating repetitive tasks
- Containerisation
- An understanding of container concepts such as Docker, and a willingness to learn Kubernetes orchestration
- Nice to Have
- Basic networking knowledge (TCP/IP, firewalling, VPCs)
- An interest in security and building secure-by-default infrastructure
- Awareness of regulated workflows and compliance frameworks (ISO27001, SOC2, GDPR)
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tooling
- Some understanding of how CI/CD pipelines work
- If this sounds like your kind of role, feel free to reach out for a confidential chat.
