Client‑Facing Cloud Infra Engineer – Vault Deployments

Thought Machine; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan (match up to 5%)

Life insurance - three times annual薪资

Shared parental leave

25 days holiday

Flexible working hours

Cycle-to-work

Electric car scheme

Season ticket loan

Learning resources

Tech stack variety

Fruit and snacks

Job summary

Thought Machine is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to act as the technical interface with client engineering teams, delivering production-ready Vault implementations. You will work across presales to production, deploying cloud-native Vault products and supporting infrastructure preparation, deployment, and troubleshooting.

You will travel up to 25% of your time, work autonomously in complex environments, and bridge Thought Machine's product engineering with client delivery teams to enable a

Qualifications

• Ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands on experience with Linux/Unix, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Istio.
• Experience with automation/configuration management tools (Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible) and cloud providers (AWS, GCP).

Responsibilities

• Hands on cloud infrastructure consulting on client sites and remotely.
• Design and prepare cloud infrastructure for Vault deployments at scale, including high availability and security.
• Deploy and configure Thought Machine Vault products on client, SaaS and internal cloud infrastructure.
• Help optimize cloud infrastructure for the Vault implementation and broader digital transformation in collaboration with Client Architects.
• Troubleshoot client, SaaS and internal cloud infrastructure, promoting monitoring and alerting tools.
• Coordinate with product/engineering teams to incorporate client feedback into the product roadmap.
• Assist the Commercial Team and Cloud Providers in addressing infrastructure questions in presales.

Skills

Linux/Unix

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Istio

Automation/CM

AWS

GCP

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Job description

Thought Machine is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to act as the technical interface with client engineering teams, delivering production-ready Vault implementations. You will work across presales to production, deploying cloud-native Vault products and supporting infrastructure preparation, deployment, and troubleshooting.

You will travel up to 25% of your time, work autonomously in complex environments, and bridge Thought Machine's product engineering with client delivery teams to enable a