Senior Infrastructure Engineer

The role

Senior Infrastructure Engineers deploy and maintain software and develop tools for third-party infrastructure components. You will build automation for deployment processes and facilitate infrastructure changes in data and streaming platforms.

What you will do

• Support the engineering team in building reliable, scalable applications
• Help design and build tools to make services scalable and highly available, automating wherever possible
• Develop observability and orchestration tooling to allow customers to monitor and manage deployments
• Contribute to disaster recovery, backup and redundancy tooling and strategy
• Assist in improving the quality of codebase by building new tools and processes

Required qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a similar technical field
• 5+ years of hands-on experience
• Experience developing production-ready infrastructure management tooling with either Python or Golang
• Familiarity with at least one of the following: Observability Tools (e.g. Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
• Familiarity with at least one of the following: Databases (e.g. Postgres, DuckDB)
• Familiarity with at least one of the following: Event Streaming platforms (e.g. Kafka)
• Familiarity with at least one of the following: Container Orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, GitHub Actions)

Nice to have

• Experience supporting production systems in high-consistency transactional environments

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Voluntary Pension Plan (match up to 5%)
• Private Healthcare Insurance
• Comprehensive Life Insurance
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays
• Two charity days a year
• Daily Meal Allowance
• Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
• Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
• All the latest tech you need
• Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks

About the company

Thought Machine develops core and payments technology that runs natively in the cloud to replace legacy banking technology. The company has more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and Lisbon.