Senior Infrastructure Engineer I

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and scaling infrastructure platforms (not just maintaining them)
• 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
• Proven ability to package and scale developer-facing infrastructure utilities with a focus on improving system reliability

Nice to Haves

• 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, with a track record of troubleshooting, extending, or optimizing them within a professional environment

What You'll Be Doing

• 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, significantly easing the cognitive load for Thought Machine engineers and bank SREs
• Design for Resiliency: Engineer robust, fault-tolerant architectures and Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Planning (DR/BCP) systems
• Advance Observability: Enhance our comprehensive observability suites that are shared across the entire Thought Machine product ecosystem, providing clients with deep, out-of-the-box monitoring and insights
• Optimise Data & Streaming: Scale and optimise core databases and event-streaming platforms to achieve maximum performance and scalability at the lowest cost

Perks and Benefits

• Highly competitive salary and commission
• Pension plan (match up to 5%)
• Life insurance (3x annual salary)
• Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid)
• Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)
• 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, subsidised by Thought Machine
• All the latest tech you need
• Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
• Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks
• A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
• An environment where we encourage learning and progress
• Two charity days a year
• Weekly food pop-up