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.
Overview
As a Senior Cloud Support Engineer at Thought Machine, you are stepping into a senior technical role that goes well beyond incident response. At this level, you are expected to own, influence and elevate how we deliver support globally - across both our hosted SaaS product and bank-hosted Vault deployments.
You will not only handle our most complex technical issues, but will also mentor junior engineers, shape tooling and processes, and partner closely with Engineering and Product teams to drive continuous improvement across the platform. You bring a deep understanding of cloud-native systems and distributed architecture, and will become a domain expert in Vault Core.
This is a highly visible role where your technical judgement, leadership, and strategic problem-solving will directly impact client outcomes and platform quality.
What you will do
- Lead the investigation and resolution of high-priority or complex incidents, coordinating with engineering and delivery teams to drive timely solutions
- Own escalations end-to-end - providing technical depth, structure, and calm during high-pressure client situations
- Develop and refine tools, dashboards, and automation to improve support delivery, observability, and onboarding
- Identify recurring issues, propose and lead solutions that improve platform stability, reduce effort, and enhance client experience
- Provide mentoring, training, and technical oversight for IC1 and IC2 engineers
- Contribute to internal documentation, playbooks, and root cause analysis reports - with a focus on accuracy and knowledge sharing
- Support both hosted and self-managed deployments of Vault, collaborating with client teams on best practice configurations
- Own and maintain Enterprise relationships from a technical perspective
- Actively shape the evolution of our support model, platform tooling, and processes across regions