Senior Automation Engineer - Testing Infrastructure & CI/CD

Visa Hunt; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly lunch stipend

Health and dental benefits

RRSP matching / Pension

Parental Leave top-up

Education & learning stipend

Job summary

Cohere is hiring a Senior/Staff Engineer to build and maintain automation infrastructure powering our North platform. You’ll design robust testing and deployment systems enabling engineers to validate changes across environments.

The role sits at the intersection of infrastructure and standards, building frameworks, IaC templates, GitHub actions, and CI/CD pipelines to ship with confidence. Remote-friendly with London office options.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on automation and testing infrastructure.
• Expert proficiency in Python and TypeScript.
• Extensive experience with GitHub workflows and actions.
• Deep understanding of testing methodologies and best practices.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Containerization experience (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Background in developer tools or platform engineering.
• Ability to design and implement complex automation systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement automation pipelines that support comprehensive testing across multiple environments with varying feature flags and realistic customer data profiles.
• Create intelligent testing agents that simulate real user behavior to validate different configuration combinations.
• Develop and maintain GitHub workflows and actions to automate testing, deployment, and validation processes.
• Manage and optimize Helm charts for deployment consistency across environments.
• Implement and maintain ArgoCD workflows for continuous deployment and environment management.
• Establish best practices for testing methodologies and ensure adoption across engineering teams.
• Build scalable infrastructure that supports parallel test execution across diverse configurations.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code templates and configurations for reproducible test environments.
• Implement containerization strategies for test environments and dependencies.
• Create benchmarking frameworks to measure performance and reliability across different configurations.
• Monitor and improve test coverage and reliability metrics.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to understand testing requirements and translate them into automated solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex testing infrastructure issues

Skills

Python

TypeScript

GitHub workflows

CI/CD

Testing methodologies

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

ArgoCD

Helm

GitHub Actions

Job description

Cohere is hiring a Senior/Staff Engineer to build and maintain automation infrastructure powering our North platform. You’ll design robust testing and deployment systems enabling engineers to validate changes across environments.

The role sits at the intersection of infrastructure and standards, building frameworks, IaC templates, GitHub actions, and CI/CD pipelines to ship with confidence. Remote-friendly with London office options.