Contract Platform Engineer

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, an