Infrastructure Engineers play a key role in helping clients build, maintain, and evolve the systems that support software delivery and operations. They work collaboratively within diverse teams, bringing together people with different roles and levels of experience to develop solutions that truly meet organizational needs.
Combining deep technical expertise with strong problem-solving and communication skills, Infrastructure Engineers focus on creating sustainable, adaptable, and efficient systems. They promote technical excellence and effective ways of working — not as goals on their own, but as paths to deliver better outcomes for clients.
Additionally, they help clients embrace agile practices and adopt DevOps as a collaborative mindset, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and shared responsibility across teams.
Job responsibilities
- You will work within teams to launch projects through hands-on implementation, evaluate existing infrastructure and drive improvements.
- You will explore the client’s needs and collaborate on building a technical roadmap and impactful solution that will support their ambitious business goals.
- You will help shape and build Thoughtworks’ cloud and infrastructure (AWS) practice through collaboration with other practitioners, business development, marketing and capabilities development teams.
- You will ensure and build the controls and processes for continuous delivery and evolution of infrastructure and applications, driving automation through all stages of the process.
- You will take a proactive role in monitoring and ensuring that technical expectations of deliverables are consistently met on projects.
- You will provide expertise and guidance in the areas of DevOps, AWS cloud, platform and infrastructure engineering, both internally and in client sites.
- You will establish trusting and thoughtful partnerships with a client’s engineering leadership.
- You will adjust and suggest innovative solutions to current constraints and business policies.
Job qualifications
Technical Skills
- You can contribute to the design and implementation of enterprise and/or web-scale hosting platforms and can administer application servers, web servers and databases.
- You have a deep understanding of AWS cloud and virtualization platforms, infrastructure automation and application hosting technologies.
- You have experience working with software delivery teams, and understand DevOps philosophies, Agile methods, Infrastructure as Code and how to apply them to your work.
- You have a history of working with at least one IaaS cloud platform, and two or more application runtime platforms including physical servers, virtual servers, container clusters, serverless and databases.
- You can write scripts using at least one scripting language and are comfortable building one or more of: Linux servers, Windows servers, or container clusters.
- You have experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools with different tech stacks.
- You’ve previously worked with monitoring systems for availability, performance or security.
- You have an understanding of security concerns, threats and approaches for dealing with them, including infrastructure platform vulnerabilities, secrets management, network security and software supply chain security.
- Bonus points if you have experience with unit testing and automated testing tools, stress and performance testing.
Professional Skills
- You genuinely enjoy interacting with teammates from across the business and have a knack for communicating technical concepts to nontechnical audiences.
- You love creating robust, scalable, flexible and relevant solutions that help transform businesses and industries.
- You’re comfortable partnering directly with infrastructure technicians, support and network analysts, security analysts, system administrators and/or IT managers to design technical strategies while simultaneously collaborating with senior IT groups in an advisory capacity.
- You adapt effortlessly to uncertainty, embrace change, and confidently make decisions with limited information to achieve positive outcomes.
Other things to know
Learning & Development
There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.
About Thoughtworks
Thoughtworks is a dynamic and inclusive community of bright and supportive colleagues who are revolutionizing tech. As a leading technology consultancy, we’re pushing boundaries through our purposeful and impactful work. For 30+ years, we’ve delivered extraordinary impact together with our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with technology as the differentiator. Bring your brilliant expertise and commitment for continuous learning to Thoughtworks. Together, let’s be extraordinary.
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Salary
Benefits: https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-us/careers/benefits
The annual salary range posted is subject to many factors and may vary depending on experience, geographic location, job responsibilities, performance, skills and/or training.
Salary$111,100—$166,700 USD