Cloud Platform Lead

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.

With six international offices, five regulatory licences, and an 83% CAGR over the past three years, we’re scaling rapidly and earning industry recognition along the way — including the Financial Times FT1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies 2026, CNBC UK’s Top Fintech Companies 2025, Wealth & Finance FinTech Awards 2026, and the Business Growth Award from Business Awards UK.

Behind it all is a team of ambitious VFXers united by collective ownership, a focus on growth, and a shared passion for solving complex problems.

About the Role

The Cloud Platform Lead will own the strategy, architecture and operational performance of our Azure cloud platform, leading a team of Cloud Engineers and SREs.

This is a technical leadership role responsible for building a secure, reliable, scalable and cost-efficient platform, while establishing strong engineering standards across Infrastructure as Code, reliability, security and disaster recovery.

The role will initially require hands-on involvement to understand the current environment, identify gaps and support priority improvements. The expectation is that the role will quickly move towards technical leadership, architecture, team development and platform strategy, rather than day-to-day infrastructure delivery.

You will report directly to the CTO and manage a team of Cloud Engineers and SREs.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and evolution of our Microsoft Azure cloud platform

• Lead, mentor and develop the Cloud Engineering and SRE team

• Define and enforce standards for Azure networking, identity, security and governance

• Drive the maturity of our Terraform/Terragrunt implementation and reusable Infrastructure as Code patterns

• Set technical direction for CI/CD, observability and platform engineering

• Improve platform reliability, scalability and operational performance

• Own disaster recovery strategy, readiness and regular recovery testing

• Define SLOs, reliability metrics and incident management practices

• Act as the senior escalation point for major infrastructure incidents

• Drive improvements in vulnerability management, patching and cloud security controls

• Work closely with Security and Risk to support ISO 27001, FCA, DORA and CIS requirements

• Establish cloud cost management, forecasting and optimisation practices

• Provide technical input into Azure and infrastructure vendor decisions

• Work closely with Engineering teams to provide secure and reliable platform capabilities

Candidate Profile

Requirements:

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

• Strong production experience with Microsoft Azure

• Experience leading, mentoring or managing cloud/platform engineers

• Deep understanding of Azure networking, including VNets, routing, DNS, private endpoints, firewalls and hybrid connectivity

• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

• Experience designing reusable infrastructure patterns and multi-environment platforms

• Strong understanding of Azure identity, Entra ID, RBAC and security

• Experience deploying and operating containerised workloads on Azure Container Apps, AKS, or similar container platforms

• Experience designing and operating highly available, business-critical systems

• Strong understanding of observability, incident management and SRE practices

• Experience designing and testing disaster recovery strategies

• Strong troubleshooting capability across infrastructure, networking and deployments

• Ability to remain technically hands-on when required while leading through the team

• Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with senior technical and business stakeholders

Nice to have:

• Experience with Terraform and Terragrunt at scale

• Experience with GitHub Actions

• Experience with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics

• Experience implementing FinOps or cloud cost optimisation practices

• Experience in fintech, payments or another regulated environment

• Familiarity with ISO 27001, FCA, DORA or CIS controls

• Experience modernising legacy VM-based environments

Benefits at VFX

We offer more than just perks—we offer ownership.

Our benefits include:

• Generous Profit Share Plan (PSP)

• Potential equity opportunities 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), every team member has a stake in the business by sharing in the profits.

To show you what that looks like, in 2025, PSP participants received over £1,000,000. Historically, VFX has also offered equity opportunities via Company Share Option Plan (CSOP), where 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 our People Ops Team, followed by a technical interview, then a final Teams interview with the CTO.