Forward Deployed Engineer - Infrastructure
Thought Machine10 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on cloud infrastructure consulting remotely and at client sites.
- Design and prepare cloud infrastructure for scalable Thought Machine Vault implementations, including high availability, disaster recovery, backup, redundancy, capacity, and security.
- Deploy and configure Vault products on client, SaaS, and internal cloud infrastructure.
- Advise clients on cloud infrastructure optimization and broader digital transformation in collaboration with Client Architects.
- Support and troubleshoot infrastructure while deploying appropriate monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.
- Work with internal product and engineering teams to incorporate client feedback into product and platform improvements.
- Support the Commercial Team and cloud provider partners with infrastructure questions during presales.
- Travel to client sites for up to 25% of the time.
Requirements
- Explain technical concepts effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Have hands-on experience with Linux/Unix administration, such as Ubuntu or Debian, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Istio, and infrastructure automation or configuration management tools such as Terraform, Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.
- Have experience with AWS or GCP.
- Desirable qualifications include experience and certifications in AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud architecture.
- Experience with enterprise secrets management, production systems for mission-critical organizations, hybrid cloud technologies, Go, Python, Java, CockroachDB, AlloyDB, Aurora, Prometheus, or Grafana is desirable.
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary, pension matching up to 5%, and life insurance worth three times annual salary.
- Six months of fully paid maternity leave, four weeks of fully paid paternity leave, and shared parental leave matched to maternity 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, subsidized sports and hobby clubs, and supplied work technology.
- Fresh fruit, cereals, snacks, smoothies, drinks, and a weekly food pop-up.
- Two charity days per year.
- The role includes travel to client sites for up to 25% of working time.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache KafkaAWSAzureChefGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaIstioJavaKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPostgreSQLPrometheusPuppetPythonTerraform
Categories
Forward Deployed
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.