Contract Platform Engineer

Meyandy LLC; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 96.000 - 165.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

YLD, a remote-first consultancy, is seeking a Platform Software Engineer to own cloud access and identity management for a client project and manage infrastructure-as-code. You’ll help maintain governance and careful change management across the cloud estate.

Essential: strong AWS IAM and Terraform expertise; experience with GitHub Actions CI/CD, Datadog/CloudWatch, and scripting in Python or JavaScript; multi-cloud a plus.

Qualifikationen

• Strong, hands-on AWS experience with IAM, IAM Identity Center/SSO, and AWS Organizations.

Aufgaben

• Own cloud access and identity management across client cloud estate.
• Manage infrastructure-as-code and governance; enable others by unblocking them.
• Implement tooling and automation to improve reliability and security.
• Collaborate with client teams and internal DevOps/SREs.
• Apply AI tools where value-added and promote clean engineering practices.

Kenntnisse

AWS IAM

Terraform

Terragrunt

CI/CD with GitHub Actions

Monitoring (Datadog/CloudWatch)

Python/JavaScript scripting

Multi-cloud

Infrastructure as code

Change management

Jobbeschreibung

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:

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

Values:

• 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.