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

We’re looking for a capable and detail-oriented Cloud Engineer to help design, build, and operate VFX’s Azure-based cloud platform. You will work across core infrastructure supporting our global financial systems, with a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code, automation, and platform reliability.

This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys building secure, scalable, and resilient environments while working within established standards and architecture. You will collaborate closely with engineering teams, contributing to the continuous improvement of our cloud platform as we scale.

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

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure using Terraform

• Contribute to the design and continuous improvement of the Azure platform architecture

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions

• Implement secure, repeatable, and auditable infrastructure deployments

• Support microservice-based systems and shared platform services

• Monitor and improve platform reliability, performance, and availability

• Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, and pipeline issues

• Apply best practices across cloud security, networking, and identity management

• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to support application delivery

• Contribute to automation and standardisation across the platform

Candidate Profile

• 2–4 years’ experience in cloud engineering or a closely related role

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure in production environments

• Practical experience using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning

• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)

• Working knowledge of Azure networking, identity, and core services, including Entra ID

• Experience supporting microservice-based applications

• Scripting skills using PowerShell, Bash, or similar

• Understanding of reliability, scalability, and availability principles

• Comfortable working in Agile / DevOps environments

Nice to Have

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

• Exposure to event-driven or serverless architectures

• Familiarity with observability tools (logs, metrics, tracing in Azure Monitor)

• Experience working in regulated environments, ideally fintech

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.