Infrastructure Engineer
Thought Machine13 hours ago
Lisbon, PortugalMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Support engineers in building reliable and scalable applications.
- Design and build tools that improve service scalability and availability, automating processes where possible.
- Develop observability and orchestration tooling for monitoring and managing customer deployments.
- Contribute to disaster recovery, backup, and redundancy tooling and strategy.
- Build tools and processes that improve codebase quality.
- Develop integrations with third-party infrastructure components and support infrastructure changes in data and streaming platforms.
Requirements
- Bachelor-level degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field.
- 3–5 years of hands-on experience.
- Production-ready infrastructure management tooling experience with Python or Golang.
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or Grafana.
- Familiarity with databases such as Postgres or DuckDB.
- Familiarity with event streaming platforms such as Kafka.
- Familiarity with container orchestration technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, or GitHub Actions.
- Desirable: experience supporting production systems in high-consistency transactional environments.
Benefits
- Full-time, permanent position based in the Lisbon office.
- Four days per week onsite.
- Voluntary Pension Plan with matching up to 5%.
- Private healthcare and comprehensive life insurance.
- 25 days of holiday plus public holidays.
- Two charity days per year and a daily meal allowance.
- Access to learning materials, courses, sports clubs, and hobby clubs.
- Latest technology equipment, snacks, smoothies, and drinks.
- Equal access to professional development and an inclusive workplace.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureCircleCIDockerGitHub ActionsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonVault
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About Thought Machine
Thought Machine builds cloud-native core and payments platforms for banks, centered on Vault Core, a microservices, API-driven core banking system delivered in the cloud. It sells enterprise software and services to banks and financial institutions, with engineers embedding to implement and integrate systems. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, the privately held company serves global banking markets and focuses on replacing legacy core infrastructure.