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