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.   We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re 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 • 2–4 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, for_each 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 press