Cloud-Native Infrastructure Engineer – Automation & Observability

Thought Machine; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan (match up to 5%)

Life insurance (3x annual salary)

Maternity and paternity leave

Shared parental leave

25 days holiday and bank holidays

Flexible working hours

Cycle-to-work scheme

Electric car scheme

Season ticket loan

Learning materials and courses

Sports and hobby clubs

Latest tech you need

Fresh fruit and cereals

Snacks and drinks

Job summary

Thought Machine is seeking an Infrastructure-focused Software Engineer to deploy and maintain cutting-edge software. You will build tools and integrations with third-party infrastructure components used in customer environments, and automate deployment processes across data and streaming platforms to support our products.

Join a fast-growing team that emphasizes learning, collaboration and delivering reliable, scalable systems in a modern cloud environment with a focus on observability and

Qualifications

• 3–5 years hands-on infra tooling experience.
• Production-ready tooling in Python or Golang.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus/OpenTelemetry/Grafana).
• Familiarity with databases (PostgreSQL/DuckDB) and Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Support the engineering team in building reliable, scalable applications.
• Design and build tools to automate deployment and improve availability.
• Develop observability and orchestration tooling for customer deployments.
• Contribute to disaster recovery, backup and redundancy tooling and strategy.
• Help improve code quality by creating new tools and processes.

Skills

Python

Golang

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

PostgreSQL

DuckDB

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Jenkins

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Observability Tools

CI/CD tools

Job description

Thought Machine is seeking an Infrastructure-focused Software Engineer to deploy and maintain cutting-edge software. You will build tools and integrations with third-party infrastructure components used in customer environments, and automate deployment processes across data and streaming platforms to support our products.

Join a fast-growing team that emphasizes learning, collaboration and delivering reliable, scalable systems in a modern cloud environment with a focus on observability and