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. What we are attempting is hard and means we need great people working together to build great technology.We have grown rapidly in the past few years - growing our team to more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore and Sydney. We have raised more than $500m in funding and are now valued at $2.7bn. Our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investments, Standard Chartered Ventures, and more. We have created a culture enabling our team to produce the best work in the industry, ensuring we have fun along the way. We're regularly cited as having a fantastic workplace culture and have been recognised by Sifted magazine as having one of the highest Glassdoor ratings for a UK fintech company and the most generous employee share package in the industry. Global Finance Magazine named us one of the world’s most innovative fintechs, and the Financial Times recognised us as one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies in 2023.
The Client Site Reliability Engineer role in Infrastructure, Client Services will be responsible for enabling and supporting our clients to deliver a best in class cloud native implementation of Thought Machine Vault products on client or Thought Machine hosted infrastructure, from presales to production at scale. This role supports clients in their cloud infrastructure preparation, deployment, optimisation and troubleshooting.
Duties
1. Hands on cloud infrastructure consulting both on client site and remote
2. Working with customers and external partners to design and prepare suitable cloud infrastructure to ensure Thought Machine Vault products can be tested and run successfully at scale. Includes planning for high availability, disaster recovery, backup, redundancy, capacity and security
3. Deploying and configuring Thought Machine Vault products on client, SaaS and internal cloud infrastructure
4. Developing deep understanding of and advising clients on optimisation of cloud infrastructure for overarching implementation of Vault, including advising on systems outside of Vault to empower holistic digital transformation in collaboration with Thought Machine Client Architects
5. Supporting and troubleshooting client, SaaS and internal cloud infrastructure both remotely and on site, including by promoting and deploying suitable monitoring, logging and alerting tools
6. Working closely with internal product and engineering teams to ensure client feedback is incorporated into improvements to the product and platform
7. Supporting the Thought Machine Commercial Team and Cloud Provider Partners in answering infrastructure queries and challenges in the presales cycle
Requirements
Essential
8. Ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
9. Hands on experience of some or all of the following:
10. Linux/Unix administration, e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Istio
11. Experience with automation/configuration management, e.g. Terraform
12. Experience with AWS or GCP
Desirable
13. Experience with at least one and associated certifications for at least one of the following:
14. AWS (ideally certified Solutions Architect Professional)
15. GCP (ideally certified Professional Cloud Architect)
16. Azure (ideally certified Solutions Architect Expert)
17. Experience of enterprise secrets management systems, e.g. HashiCorp Vault, AWS secrets manager
18. Experience in supporting production systems for high profile, mission critical systems.
19. Experience with hybrid cloud technologies including OpenShift, Google Anthos, AWS EKS Anywhere, AWS Outposts
20. A strong background in Go, Python or Java
21. Experience with Postgres
22. Experience with observability tools, e.g. Prometheus, Grafana
Benefits
23. Highly competitive salary
24. Pension plan (match up to 5%)
25. Life insurance - three times annual salary
26. Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid)
27. Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)
28. 25 days holiday and bank holidays
29. Flexible working hours
30. Cycle-to-work scheme
31. Electric car scheme
32. Season ticket loan
33. Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
34. Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
35. All the latest tech you need
36. Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
37. Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks
38. A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
39. An environment where we encourage learning and progress
40. Two charity days a year
41. Weekly food pop-up