Platform Software Engineer

Location: Remote within Portugal

Department: Engineering

Hours: Fulltime

About YLD:

Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract inspire develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London Lisbon and Porto.

Tasks

About the role:

As a Platform Engineer youll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious passionate driven and enthusiastic. Youll be proficient at problemsolving helping to deliver the core infrastructure associated pipelines and related services in a pragmatic way that focuses on keeping the Platform team a core component of software delivery from providing the platform for application developers to build on. Youll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fastpaced engineering environment achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.

Requirements

Your Dev experience will include:

• Previous CI/CD experience;
• Experienced in Java Node.js or Go but any relevant development experience is a huge plus (E.g. Powershell or Bash);
• Being an advocate of TDD: Writing infrastructure or code without tests should be unthinkable;
• Having a solid understanding and passion for excellent software development practises;
• Legally being able to live and work in Portugal.

Your Ops experience will include:

• Significant experience in production;
• Substantial experience of container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes;
• Experience with AWS GCP or Azure;
• Thorough understanding of infrastructure as code tools including Terraform and Ansible (ARM Template Bicep or Pulumi are welcome);
• Building shipping and running using Docker;
• Understanding how a Load Balancer works and having used either Traefik Nginx HaProxy or a Cloudbased Load Balancer;
• Experience in using a Linux/RHEL/Ubuntu environment.

Youll be:

• Selfmotivated proactive and always looking for ways to improve and develop yourself;
• Diplomatic emotionally intelligent have an ability to listen and be open to others points of view;
• A good communicator both in writing and verbally. Youll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in businessfriendly language;
• A genuine believer in diversity fairness and inclusion;
• Legally able to live and work in Portugal.

Benefits

As well as the chance to work with a forwardthinking ethical and fun group of people youll also get:

• Company Private Health care
• Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months
• 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)
• 2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences
• 300 annual allowance for additional hardware
• Mental Health support: access to Spill app
• Meditation/Sleep support: Headspace or Calm app subscription
• Bonus (depending on Company performance and results)
• Company laptop
• Generous referral schemes

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• TakeHome Challenge (1h)
• Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)

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

Were an equalopportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We dont discriminate based on race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation pregnancy or maternity age marital status or disability status. Likewise we also offer a remotefirst working environment meaning that flexible working and worklife balance come as standard for all employees.