# Senior Infrastructure Engineer

**Company**: Thought Machine
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Thought Machine's mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Thought Machine, you will play a crucial role in deploying and maintaining cutting-edge software, developing tools and integrations with third-party infrastructure components used in customers' environments.

**Responsibilities**

- Scale the Core Platform: Evolve, scale, and optimise the cloud-agnostic platform infrastructure powering Vault globally.

- Simplify Orchestration: Build intuitive control planes and automation to further abstract away infrastructure complexity.

- Design for Resiliency: Engineer robust, fault-tolerant architectures and Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Planning (DR/BCP) systems.

- Advance Observability: Enhance comprehensive observability suites shared across the entire Thought Machine product ecosystem.

- Optimise Data & Streaming: Scale and optimise core databases and event-streaming platforms.

**Requirements**

- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field.

- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and scaling infrastructure platforms.

- Strong proficiency in building production-ready platform tooling using Python or Golang.

- Deep understanding of container and orchestration internals (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).

- Hands-on experience extending and integrating open-source tools like Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana.

**Nice to Have**

- Experience building cloud-agnostic solutions running across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

- Technical depth in databases or event-streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, Postgres, DuckDB).

- A deep interest in the internals of infrastructure tools.

**Benefits**

- Highly competitive salary and commission

- Pension plan (match up to 5%)

- Life insurance (3x annual salary)

- Competitive maternity and paternity leave

- 25 days holiday and bank holidays

- Flexible working hours

- Cycle-to-work scheme

- Electric car scheme

- Season ticket loan

- Access to outstanding learning materials and courses

- Sports and hobby clubs

- Fresh fruit and cereals

- Huge range of healthy snacks and drinks

- Two charity days a year

- Weekly food pop-up

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Golang
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Prometheus
- OpenTelemetry
- Grafana

### Nice to have
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Kafka
- Postgres
- DuckDB

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