Cloud Support Engineer
Thought MachineResponsibilities
- Lead investigation and resolution of high-priority and complex incidents with engineering and delivery teams.
- Own technical escalations end-to-end and provide structure during high-pressure client situations.
- Develop tools, dashboards, and automation to improve support delivery, observability, and onboarding.
- Identify recurring issues and lead solutions that improve platform stability, reduce effort, and enhance client experience.
- Create internal documentation, playbooks, and root cause analysis reports.
- Support hosted and self-managed Vault deployments and advise client teams on best-practice configurations.
- Help shape the global support model, platform tooling, and operational processes.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in technical support, cloud infrastructure, or SRE/DevOps roles, ideally in high-scale, client-facing environments.
- Deep experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and production troubleshooting.
- Strong Linux systems knowledge, including filesystems, networking, and system internals.
- Programming skills in Golang and Python, plus experience with infrastructure tools or observability stacks such as Grafana, Prometheus, and EFK.
- Experience with cloud-native platforms and tools such as Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP, and Docker.
- Ability to communicate and influence effectively across client, product, and engineering teams under pressure.
- Demonstrated ability to lead without authority, including during escalations, cross-functional collaborations, and mentoring.
- Experience deploying or supporting self-managed software in client cloud environments is desirable.
- Exposure to core banking, payments, or financial services infrastructure is desirable.
- Familiarity with gRPC, protobuf, or service-to-service communication patterns is desirable.
- Open-source contributions, self-directed cloud or infrastructure learning, and experience with support process design or automation are desirable.
Benefits
- Pension plan with matching up to 5%.
- Life insurance of three times annual salary.
- Paid maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave.
- 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
- Flexible working hours.
- Cycle-to-work scheme, electric car scheme, and season ticket loan.
- Access to learning materials and courses.
- Subsidised sports and hobby clubs.
- Latest technology equipment, snacks, drinks, and weekly food pop-ups.
- Two charity days per year and a supportive environment focused on learning and progression.
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About Thought Machine
Our team’s mission is a bold one – to create technology that can run the world’s banks according to the best designs and software practices of the modern age. In doing so, we will properly and permanently rid the world’s banks of the problems generated by poor technology running on legacy infrastructure. Our solution to this is Vault Core: a complete core banking platform that is capable of being configured easily to suit the needs of any bank. We have built Vault Core from the ground up as a cloud-native, microservices and API-based platform. Thought Machine has a deep culture of engineering excellence, and our approach has engendered a seismic shift in the banking industry. Thought Machine is looking for highly talented individuals to help grow the company and achieve our ambitious goal. We pride ourselves on having an excellent internal culture, where we strive hard to create the best possible working environment; a healthy mix of great technical work, fast pace, a supportive atmosphere, and of course our irreverent sense of fun.