The posting
Company Description
Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.
Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland and beyond.
Job Description
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.
Qualifications
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 pressure; able to tell expected behaviour from genuine misconfiguration.
- Risk awareness — sequences privileged changes safely, builds security gates into plans early, and rehearses changes outside production first.
- Documentation discipline and a standardisation mindset — turns one-off solutions into reusable patterns.
Desirable
- Migrating legacy build systems (TeamCity, Octopus Deploy; .NET, C++, Delphi toolchains) onto GitHub Actions.
- GitOps with ArgoCD, Kustomize and Helm; Kubernetes add-ons such as KEDA, Traefik and Sealed Secrets; Azure Container Registry.
- Configuration management with Ansible.
- Building internal developer-platform or self-service deployment tooling.
- Building internal apps and APIs with Python (Flask, FastAPI).
- Using AI/LLM APIs (e.g. Anthropic Claude, Azure OpenAI) to speed up engineering work.
- Exposure to Snowflake or other cloud data platforms.
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Additional Information
Our Values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:
- METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
- ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
- GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
- INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
- CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
- COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.
Reward and benefits at Fastmarkets
We believe in fair pay and benefits that support you both inside and outside of work. Through Fastmarkets Rewards, you'll have access to a range of core benefits and a flexible allowance, giving you the freedom to tailor your package to suit your lifestyle, wellbeing and financial priorities. We know that everyone's needs are different, so we've designed our benefits to support our diverse global team wherever they're based.
Specific benefits may vary by country and role.
You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!
If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.
It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.
