Contract Platform Engineer

🕒 September 9

🇬🇧 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

• Participate as part of a client team building innovative products • Design scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures • Write, test, and maintain Kubernetes operators in Golang • Own and review Terraform modules that provision clusters • Reason about distributed systems when components disagree or cannot communicate • Work in a fast-paced engineering environment to deliver outstanding results and projects • Collaborate effectively with clients and team members

🎯 Requirements

• Deep Kubernetes knowledge, including the API, controllers, scheduling and networking • Solid experience with Golang, including writing, testing and maintaining a Kubernetes operator • Terraform experience, including owning and reviewing modules that provision clusters • Hands-on AWS experience is mandatory • Working grasp of distributed systems, including consistency models, replication, consensus and network partitions • Experience in regulated or financial systems • Comfortable working with AI tools for most of the day, with judgement to review their output and adopt valuable new technologies • Skilled in problem-solving • Experienced in designing scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures • Effective communicator and strong team player

🏖️ Benefits

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

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