Contract Platform Engineer

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer at YLD, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We’re looking for someone curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You should be skilled in problem-solving and experienced in designing scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’re also an effective communicator and a strong team player. Together with your team, you’ll thrive in a fast-paced engineering environment, delivering outstanding results and exciting projects.

• Crafting excellent products! As a Platform Engineer, you will be building new features that meet the needs of our clients' customers, as well as improving the tools, processes of their teams;
• As a Platform Engineer, you will work on a CI/CD internal tool and task automation;
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices into their development workflows;
• Automate deployment processes and design CI/CD pipelines for efficient and reliable software delivery;
• Ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of cloud-based systems and services;
• Working closely with your team, regularly collaborating and on engineering initiatives, to continually push yourselves to be better;
• Participating in regular show and tells, promoting your work to both your department and the wider company;

You’ll have the following skills and experience:

• Deep experience in automation;
• Commercial experience of working with C# and PowerShell (Typescript proficiency is a nice-to-have)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Pulumi, Terraform, or AWS CloudFormation;
• Solid understanding of Microsoft Azure, particularly Azure Key Vault
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, as well as managed function architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions);
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps);
• Ability to switch between multiple languages and paradigms effectively;
• Familiarity with Grafana is a plus, as monitoring will become a growing focus in the project.

You should apply if you are:

• Self-motivated, proactive, and continually looking for ways to improve and develop yourself;
• A good communicator, both in writing and verbally. You’ll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language;
• Detail-oriented;
• Ability to learn through observation in a low-documentation environment;
• High resilience and adaptability are required skills
• Used to working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment;
• Analytical and problem-solving oriented;
• A genuine believer in diversity and fairness.

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 looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)
• Meet our Client Partner and Engineering Operations Manager (30 mins)

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.