AI-Powered Platform Engineer: Cloud & Infra Architect

Cogna Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and share option plan

25 days annual leave

Excellent pension scheme

Private healthcare

Flexible hybrid working

Access to a gym and fitness classes

Job summary

Cogna Ltd in Greater London is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain essential infrastructure. This role focuses on shaping internal platforms and cloud architecture vital for all engineering teams.

Ideal candidates should excel in software engineering principles and thrive in dynamic environments, collaborating across functions to deliver robust solutions.

The position includes modern engineering tools, competitive salary, and benefits like 25 days annual leave and hybrid working.

Qualifications

• Writing maintainable code in real-world environments.
• Grasp of computer science fundamentals.
• Reasoning about distributed systems under failure.
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure tools.
• Operational experience with PostgreSQL.
• Deep appreciation for secure design.
• Comfortable partnering with others.
• Excited about AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve cloud infrastructure.
• Make architectural decisions for software.
• Work within Go/Python/TypeScript codebase.
• Own and evolve delivery systems.
• Implement security controls across environments.
• Drive observability through logging and alerting.
• Partner with internal teams for resilience.
• Lead reliability improvements post-incidents.

Skills

Proficient in writing maintainable, testable, scalable code

Strong foundational software engineering skills

Systems-level thinking

Infrastructure as Code and automation

Deep operational experience with PostgreSQL

Security-first mindset

Cross-functional collaboration

AI assisted development

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Python

Typescript

Go

Job description

Cogna Ltd in Greater London is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain essential infrastructure. This role focuses on shaping internal platforms and cloud architecture vital for all engineering teams.

Ideal candidates should excel in software engineering principles and thrive in dynamic environments, collaborating across functions to deliver robust solutions.

The position includes modern engineering tools, competitive salary, and benefits like 25 days annual leave and hybrid working.