Senior Cloud Engineer

About VFX

VFX Financial is one of the UK’s fastest-growing FinTechs, helping complex organisations move, manage, and protect money across borders. Built for specialist sectors, multi-jurisdiction structures, and high-compliance environments, we support businesses whose needs go beyond standard banking. We’re selective about who we work with because exceptional service requires focus and commitment.

About the Role

You will own the delivery and operation of VFX’s Azure-based cloud platform, with a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Terragrunt, and containerised workloads on Azure Container Apps.

This is a hands-on role responsible for building and evolving reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure. You will ensure platform changes are delivered safely and consistently through automation, while contributing to the ongoing improvement of architecture, standards, and operational practices across the platform.

This role can be hybrid at our office in Portimao or fully remote across Portugal.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of infrastructure across the Azure platform using Terraform and Terragrunt

• Build and maintain reusable, scalable IaC modules and multi-environment configurations

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for infrastructure and platform services

• Deploy and operate containerised workloads on Azure Container Apps

• Ensure secure, consistent, and auditable infrastructure deployments

• Drive improvements in reliability, scalability, and operational performance

• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, networking, and deployment issues

• Implement and improve observability, monitoring, and incident response practices

• Apply and enforce best practices for Azure networking, identity, and security

• Collaborate with engineering teams to support microservice-based systems

• Optimise cost and resource utilisation across Azure

Candidate Profile

• 5+ years of experience in cloud or platform engineering roles

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure in production environments

• Deep experience with Terraform and Terragrunt (non-negotiable)

• Proven experience building reusable IaC modules and managing multi-environment setups

• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)

• Experience deploying and operating containerised workloads (Azure Container Apps preferred)

• Strong understanding of Azure networking, identity (Entra ID), and security

• Experience supporting highly available, scalable systems

• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across infrastructure and deployments

• Ability to independently deliver infrastructure while aligning with platform standards

Nice to Have

• Direct experience with Azure Container Apps (scaling rules, revisions, ingress)

• Experience with observability tooling (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics)

• Experience with event-driven architectures (queues, async workloads)

• Experience in regulated environments (fintech, payments)

Benefits at VFX

We offer more than just perks — we offer ownership.

Our benefits include:

• Generous Profit Share Plan (PSP)

• Equity via the Company Share Option Plan (CSOP)

• Competitive salary

• Annual all-expenses paid company incentive trip abroad

• Flexible learning & development budget

PSP & CSOP Details

At VFX, the biggest benefit is the opportunity to act like an owner. Through our Profit Share Scheme (PSP) and Company Share Option Plan (CSOP), every team member has a chance to own a stake in the business and share in the profits.

To show you what that looks like, in 2024, PSP participants received over $1,000,000 USD. From those distributions, more than 80% of eligible VFXers chose to become shareholders — a powerful reflection of the belief and commitment that drives VFX forward.

If you care about building something meaningful, take pride in your work, and are motivated by impact — you’ll thrive here.

Next Steps

If you are successful, you will be contacted for an initial call with the People Ops Team, followed by a test and virtual technical interview.