Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Scale & Observability

Thought Machine; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension plan

Life insurance

Parental leave

Annual leave

Flexible hours

Cycle-to-work

Tech learning budget

Health and snack perks

Job summary

Thought Machine in London seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure to scale our cloud-agnostic platform infrastructure and improve reliability at massive scale. You will own tooling in Python/Go, extend Kubernetes and Docker usage, and help advance multi-cloud readiness.

You will contribute to observability through Prometheus/OpenTelemetry/Grafana, strengthen DR/BCP, and collaborate with a talented team to deliver robust, scalable infrastructure across customers.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field.
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and scaling infrastructure platforms.
• Strong proficiency in building production-ready platform tooling using Python or Golang.
• Deep understanding of container and orchestration internals (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
• Hands-on experience extending and integrating open-source tools like Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Scale the Core Platform: Evolve, scale, and optimise the cloud-agnostic platform infrastructure powering Vault globally.
• Simplify Orchestration: Build intuitive control planes and automation to reduce infrastructure complexity.
• Design for Resiliency: Engineer robust, fault-tolerant architectures and DR/BCP systems.
• Advance Observability: Enhance observability suites with deep monitoring and insights for clients.
• Optimise Data & Streaming: Scale databases and event-streaming for performance and cost.

Skills

Python

Go

Observability tooling

Container orchestration

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Job description

Thought Machine in London seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure to scale our cloud-agnostic platform infrastructure and improve reliability at massive scale. You will own tooling in Python/Go, extend Kubernetes and Docker usage, and help advance multi-cloud readiness.

You will contribute to observability through Prometheus/OpenTelemetry/Grafana, strengthen DR/BCP, and collaborate with a talented team to deliver robust, scalable infrastructure across customers.