Contract Platform Engineer

🔥 16 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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YLD

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Marketing • Healthcare

YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy that helps businesses succeed by fostering a progressive culture of learning. The company specializes in software engineering, digital product design, and data science, with expertise in modernizing practices and software using technologies like Node. js, React. js, Kubernetes, and React Native. YLD also emphasizes open-source development, community engagement, and training to empower engineering teams. The company serves a diverse range of industries including energy, fintech, and Web3, and runs events to support tech communities. YLD has offices in London, Lisbon, and Porto.

📋 Description

• Own cloud access and identity management for a client team • Manage a large part of the client’s infrastructure-as-code • Control who and what can access resources across the cloud estate • Stand up newer tooling alongside existing cloud infrastructure • Manage shared infrastructure relied upon by multiple teams • Perform careful change management and governance • Unblock other teams dependent on shared infrastructure • Participate in the recruitment process, including Talent Partner, technical, and Client Partner interviews

🎯 Requirements

• Strong, hands-on AWS experience, particularly IAM, IAM Identity Center / SSO, and AWS Organizations (essential) • Experience with Terraform • Experience with Kubernetes • Experience running shared, high-blast-radius infrastructure • Experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD, including OIDC federation to cloud providers • Familiarity with Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar tooling • Some Python or JavaScript for scripting • Multi-cloud experience is a plus • Strong focus on clean engineering practices, including testing and reliability • Ability to use AI tools to augment work, applying sound judgement to adopt emerging technologies where they add value • Contract engagement on a B2B basis • Availability for a 3-month contract, with potential extension

🏖️ Benefits

• The chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people • Opportunity to develop and grow skills in a fast-moving business • Remote-first working environment • Flexible working • Work–life balance as standard