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Contract Platform Engineer

YLD
Location
Remote EU
Posted
27 days ago
Department
Engineering
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • Strong, hands-on AWS experience, particularly IAM, IAM Identity Center / SSO, and AWS Organizations
  • Terraform experience
  • 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
Nice to have
  • Terragrunt experience
  • Multi-cloud experience
  • Experience using AI tools to augment work
What the job really is

As a Contract Platform Engineer at YLD, you will manage cloud access and identity management, focusing on infrastructure-as-code. Your daily tasks will involve controlling permissions across the cloud environment, implementing new tools, and ensuring careful change management and governance to support various teams.

Benefits
  • Chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people
  • Opportunity to develop and grow skills in a fast-moving business
  • Remote-first working environment
  • Flexible working and work-life balance
Things to weigh
  • Contract position with a length of 6 months and potential for extension
  • Remote role requires being based in the EU and working in the GMT timezone
  • Focus on governance and change management may limit opportunities for rapid feature development
Job score2.8/5
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Freshness4/5
Career value4/5
Role clarity4/5
Pay transparency0/5

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