Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure
Deploy and run Thought Machine’s Vault products on client cloud infrastructure, from the pre-sales questions through production at scale.
- London, remote, and client sites
- Full time
- Up to 25% at client sites
- Pay not listed
This job is open.
Jack’s take. Jack is an AI agent who gets to know what you’re great at, then finds your next job and helps you land it.
“You’d run Vault on a client’s cloud with Thought Machine’s SRE teams.”
Who it suits
A good fit if you
- Like hands-on cloud work with a client’s engineers
- Can explain infrastructure to technical and non-technical people
- Want to carry a deployment from pre-sales into production
Think twice if you
- Want to stay off client sites
- Haven’t run cloud infrastructure
- Haven’t had to explain a technical system to non-technical people
What you’d do
- Design and prepare cloud infrastructure so Vault can be tested and run at scale, including availability, disaster recovery, backup, capacity, and security.
- Deploy and configure Vault on a client’s cloud, on Thought Machine’s hosting, and on internal infrastructure.
- Advise on the systems around Vault so the wider implementation holds together, working with Thought Machine’s client architects.
- Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting, troubleshoot what breaks, and answer infrastructure questions during pre-sales.
What they ask for
- You can explain technical choices to engineers and to people who don’t run the systems.
- You’ve worked hands-on with infrastructure such as Linux, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, or Istio.
- You’ve used automation or configuration management, such as Terraform, Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.
- You’ve worked with AWS or GCP.
How it works
- You’d spend up to 25% of your time traveling to client sites.
What to know before you apply
Open at least 18 weeks, longer than most London FDE roles
- Week 11Half of London FDE roles have closed
- Week 18This job so far
In November 2026, Thought Machine had 3 forward deployed engineer jobs open, in London, New York, and Singapore.
The deployment lead, 34% of London FDE roles
- 62%The builder. Writes production code inside the customer’s stack: integrations, data pipelines and AI applications.
- 34%The deployment lead (this job). Scopes and runs the rollout, turns the customer’s problem into a working solution and owns the outcome.
Shares of open FDE roles in London.
Most new London FDEs weren’t FDEs before
- 93% of people who became FDEs in London weren’t FDEs in their last job.
- 54% came from a startup or scale-up.
Thought Machine doesn’t list pay for this job
Our London FDE guide shows what FDEs in London expect to earn, so you can talk numbers with confidence.
What London FDEs earnWorth asking the hiring team
- “How much of a week is the client’s cloud, and how much is Vault’s business logic?”
- “Are the client sites mostly in the UK?”
Jack’s take on Thought Machine
- Revenue passed $100M in 2025, after a flat 2024
- Many of its backers are banks that run on its software
- The team is growing again, to about 530 people
- Based in London, Lisbon, New York, Miami, Singapore and Sydney
- Founded 2014
- 31 open roles
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Jack & Jill isn’t Thought Machine’s recruiter. We summarized this job from Thought Machine’s public careers page, where you can apply, and we check whether it’s still open each time you open this page. The market numbers come from our London FDE guide and the company facts from Thought Machine’s company page. We last checked this summary against the posting on November 9, 2026. Jack’s take is Jack & Jill’s own.