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Contract Platform Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Strong, hands-on AWS experience, particularly IAM, IAM Identity Center / SSO, and AWS Organizations
  • Terraform
  • Experience running shared, high-blast-radius infrastructure
  • Some Python or JavaScript for scripting

Responsibilities

  • Owning cloud access and identity management along with infrastructure-as-code
  • Controlling who and what can do what across the cloud estate
  • Careful change management and governance
  • Unblocking others by standing up newer tooling

About the company

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YLD

IT Services & IT Consulting

YLD is a software engineering and digital product design consultancy specialising in helping large enterprises grow their digital capabilities. Founded in 2013, YLD is a long-standing digital partner to companies including Condé Nast, The Economist, and GoDaddy.

Company details

Company typeScaleup
IndustryIT Services & IT Consulting
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

Location: Remote (EU based, GMT timezone)

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Contract (B2B)

Contract Length: 6 months (with potential for extension)

About YLD:

Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay.

We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.

About the role:

As a Platform Software Engineer at YLD, you'll be part of a client team, owning cloud access and identity management along with a large part of their infrastructure-as-code. Day to day, that means controlling who and what can do what across their cloud estate, and standing up the newer tooling that sits alongside it. It's shared infrastructure that many teams depend on, so much of the role is careful change management, governance, and unblocking others.

Preferred Skills:

  • Strong, hands-on AWS experience, particularly IAM, IAM Identity Center / SSO, and AWS Organizations (essential)
  • Terraform (essential), Terragrunt (strongly preferred)
  • Experience running shared, high-blast-radius infrastructure
  • 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
  • A strong focus on clean engineering practices, including testing and reliability;
  • Use AI tools to augment your work, applying sound judgement to adopt emerging technologies where they genuinely add value and increase your impact as an engineer.

What you’ll get in return:

  • The chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fast-moving business

Our typical recruitment process:

  • 1st Interview with a Talent Partner (30/45 mins)
  • Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)
  • Final chat with our Client Partner (30/45 mins)

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We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:

  • Growing every day
  • Including everyone
  • Relationships built on honesty and ethics
  • Inspiring solutions
  • Winning together

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in all its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability. We also offer a remote-first working environment, with flexible working and work–life balance as standard for all employees.

 

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