Infrastructure Engineer

Thought Machine; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company seeks an Infrastructure Engineer to enhance banking technology through scalable solutions. You will support the engineering team with critical responsibilities like automating processes and developing observability tools, all within a dynamic work environment that champions growth and innovation.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary

Pension plan (up to 5% match)

Life insurance (three times annual salary)

Generous maternity leave (6 months)

Flexible working hours

Cycle-to-work scheme

Access to learning materials and courses

Weekly food pop-up

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience required.
• Interest in databases and infrastructure automation.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms or willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Support the engineering team in building scalable applications.
• Design and develop tools to enhance scalability.
• Participate in disaster recovery and backup activities.

Skills

Python

Golang

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD systems

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar

Tools

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Job description

Description

Thought Machine’s mission is bold - to properly and permanently rid the world’s banks of legacy technology. To achieve this, we have developed the foundations of modern banking through core and payments technology which run natively in the cloud. We are seeking great people to build innovative technology as part of our rapidly growing team.

We have expanded to over 550 employees across London, New York, Singapore, and Sydney. With over $500m in funding and a valuation of $2.7bn, our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investments, Standard Chartered Ventures, and others.

Our culture fosters excellence and fun, recognized as a top UK fintech workplace with high Glassdoor ratings and industry-leading employee share packages. Global Finance Magazine named us one of the most innovative fintechs, and the Financial Times recognized us as one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies in 2023.

Our Infrastructure Engineers are vital in deploying and maintaining our cutting-edge software, developing tools for production environments, and automating deployment processes. They work on building tools for self-hosted clients, product integration, and enhancing our data and streaming platforms, ensuring a reliable user experience for Thought Machine engineers and bank SREs.

Duties

1. Support the engineering team in building reliable, scalable applications.
2. Design and develop tools to enhance scalability and availability, automating processes where possible.
3. Develop and deploy observability and orchestration tools to monitor and manage deployments.
4. Participate in disaster recovery, backup, and redundancy activities.
5. Improve code quality through new tools and processes.

Requirements

Essential

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field.
• 3-5 years of hands-on experience.
• Experience with Python or Golang.
• Interest in databases, observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana), or infrastructure automation.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, or willingness to learn.
• Understanding of container tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, or GitHub Actions.

Desirable

• Experience with production systems.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Pension plan (up to 5% match)
• Life insurance (three times annual salary)
• Generous maternity (6 months) and paternity leave (4 weeks), fully paid
• Shared parental leave aligned with maternity leave
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Flexible working hours
• Cycle-to-work and electric car schemes
• Season ticket loan
• Access to learning materials and courses
• Sports and hobby clubs
• State-of-the-art technology equipment
• Healthy snacks, smoothies, and drinks
• Supportive environment for learning and growth
• Two charity days annually
• Weekly food pop-up

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