Upvest is on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money. The company empowers businesses to offer a wide range of investment products and the best experience in the field of capital market investment and retirement planning. Upvest’s Investment API is easy to integrate so that fintechs and enterprises alike can save resources and fully focus on their core business.‍

Upvest is one of the few fintechs in Europe that can provide its B2B clients with the full range of investment opportunities in the areas of principal broking business, proprietary trading, and safe custody business for traditional securities. The company was founded in 2017 by Martin Kassing and currently employs more than 180 people across Europe. The latest €100m fundraising round (Series C) was led by Hedosophia and Sapphire Venture, with continued support from existing investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, BlackRock, Earlybird, HV Capital, Motive Ventures, and Notion Capital.

Your Teams Mission:

The Infrastructure team’s objectives include creating a robust, secure, resilient, and observable cloud first infrastructure for engineering teams to build and operate products on. The team’s principles include themes such as autonomy for engineering teams, a loosely coupled architecture, flexibility, efficiency, security and ease of adoption. It does this by evolving the cloud architecture and offering capabilities that can be used discretely or composed into a platform experience.

Your Mission:

As a Senior Cloud Engineer in the Platform Tribe, you will play an important role in growing and shaping our cloud platform and architecture. You will work to ensure our cloud components are secure, cost-efficient, self-serviceable and reusable.

This role will give you the opportunity to…

• Collaborate with Platform Engineering Teams – Design, implement, and optimize cloud services, advising teams on leveraging Google Cloud and Crossplane.

• Enhance our Cloud Platform – Improve scalability, resilience, and efficiency by building reusable components and optimizing cloud resource consumption.

• Make Metrics-Driven Improvements – Track and enhance key metrics around cost, availability, and security.

• Automate Infrastructure – Develop pipelines for seamless deployment and advocate best practices in Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Improve Security & Compliance – Implement cloud-native security, align with compliance standards, and manage third-party solutions.

Job requirements

Must-Have:

• Proven experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with expertise in core services such as Compute Engine, GKE, BigQuery, and Cloud Storage.

• Deep knowledge of cloud architecture principles, including scalability, high availability and disaster recovery.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.

• Proficiency in automation and CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or Cloud Build.

Nice-to-Have:

• Hands-on experience with Crossplane for infrastructure management and control.

• In-depth TCP/IP and data center networking (VPN, Cross-Connect) knowledge.

• Experience working in a highly regulated business.

• Basic familiarity with Kubernetes.

• Knowledge of FinOps practices for cloud cost management.

• Strong understanding of security frameworks and tools (e.g., IAM, VPC Security, Cloud Security Posture Management).

• Experience with observability tools and platforms such as Opentelemetry, DataDog, Stackdriver, Prometheus and Grafana.

• Familiarity with Platform Engineering methodologies and tools.

Why Join Us?

• Work with cutting-edge technologies like Crossplane and Google Cloud to solve challenging problems in a multi region, multi data centre, technology first product in the financial industry.

• Be part of a team focused on innovation, scalability and enabling self-service capabilities.

• Opportunity to make a significant impact on the organization's cloud strategy and operations.

Why Upvest?

• We're working on solving a hard problem: fixing the European securities financial infrastructure that empowers more people to be able to invest. You have the opportunity to contribute to this change.

• We invest in you. From access to a personal coach, development budget and plenty of opportunities to grow in your role.

• We take hiring seriously with a strong focus on keeping a high bar when interviewing (equally important is that we hire decent people, who are passionate about their craft and helping us achieve our shared mission).

• While we're not quite fully-remote, we are committed to being a flexible employer, as we understand you don't have to be in the office to do your best work.

• We live in a culture of empowerment, trust (that we hire the best people and get out of their way) and openness (there's a greater advantage in sharing information than keeping it to ourselves).

Our values:

• Learn and grow. We aim high to shape our future. We give and request honest feedback, knowing that we develop together. Progression over Perfection.

• Team first. We make it easy for others. We value our differences and are open to others' opinions. We win and celebrate together! Team over Egos.

• Own the outcome. Whether we win or we lose, we stand together. We are proactive and get the job done. Outcome over process.

• Tell the story. We always start with the why. We share knowledge to empower others. Transparency over Complexity.

Upvest is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees