Senior Automation & Testing Platform Engineer

Visa Hunt; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend

Health benefits

Parental leave

Education stipend

Vacation days

Home office stipend

Job summary

Cohere is seeking a Senior/Staff Engineer to build and maintain automation infrastructure powering the North platform’s development cycles. You’ll design robust automation systems enabling engineers to test across environments and configurations, improving testing quality and efficiency.

This remote-friendly role sits with a global team; you’ll ship with confidence by creating scalable CI/CD, IaC, and containerized testing environments, while collaborating with product and engineering teams to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering focused 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).
• Benchmarking experience and performance testing methodologies.
• 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 for multi-environment testing across environments with varying feature flags and realistic data.
• Create intelligent testing agents simulating 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

AWS

GCP

Azure

Automation systems

Tools

GitHub Actions

Helm charts

ArgoCD

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

Cohere is seeking a Senior/Staff Engineer to build and maintain automation infrastructure powering the North platform’s development cycles. You’ll design robust automation systems enabling engineers to test across environments and configurations, improving testing quality and efficiency.

This remote-friendly role sits with a global team; you’ll ship with confidence by creating scalable CI/CD, IaC, and containerized testing environments, while collaborating with product and engineering teams to