Cloud DevOps Platform Engineer

Company: Cognizant
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Location: London
Job Description:

Operating within the Platform function alongside Security, Architecture and Developer Experience teams, you’ll be heavily involved with all our technical infrastructure, from designing, through build and the ongoing operation of a platform running in Kubernetes on AWS.

Role require 5 days working from office in London . Looking for candidates with 1 Month or less notice periods.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Build and maintain a Kubernetes on AWS platform used by 150+ engineers
  • Advocate good practices and principals throughout the engineering function
  • Standardise deployment and usage of cloud resources to ease technology adoption and comply with security controls
  • Work with stakeholders, such as security, to understand the requirements of the platform

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
  • Proven track record of building and managing continual automation / deployment / delivery
  • Proficiency running infrastructure on cloud platforms, such as AWS and GCP, appreciation for their failure modes, and a good understanding of network concepts and fundamentals
  • Expertise in managing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters in production
  • Excellent knowledge on observability tooling and best practices
  • Experience working within or alongside engineering teams to deliver

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

  • Systems and database experience, with an understanding of the challenges involved in designing and building distributed/microservice environments
  • Knowledge or experience of scalable technologies such as Kafka
  • A passion for learning new things and experimenting with new technologies
  • Strong in AWS and/or Kubernetes (Azure, GCP not applicable – we need the direct experience of

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Posted: September 14th, 2026