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Contract Senior DevOps Engineer / SRE

YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy focused on creating digital capabilities and fostering a culture of learning.

YLD.io

Employee count: 51-200

United Kingdom only

Location: Remote EU

Department: Engineering

Employment: Contract (B2B)

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, Porto.

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About the role:

As a Senior DevOps Consultant, you will be a thought leader and change agent, helping our clients transform their delivery capabilities. You'll work directly with development teams while also advising at the organisational level to establish clear ownership boundaries, improve observability practices, and implement an effective DevOps culture. This role requires someone who can both execute hands-on DevOps practices and provide strategic guidance to help clients overcome delivery challenges and establish sustainable engineering practices.

Requirements

Technical competencies:

  • Deep understanding of DevOps principles, practices, and tooling with proven experience implementing them in complex organisations
  • Clear comprehension of the nuances between SRE, Platform Engineering, and Production Engineering roles and responsibilities
  • Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS services and architecture patterns
  • Proficiency with observability platforms, especially DataDog, including dashboard creation, alert configuration, and SLO implementation
  • Experience establishing and measuring key reliability metrics (SLOs, MTTR, MTTI, Error Budgets)
  • Knowledge of modern CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, etc.)
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)
  • Familiarity with containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and container orchestration
  • Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements in cloud environments
  • Experience implementing automated testing strategies for infrastructure and deployment pipelines
  • Knowledge of incident management processes and tools, including post-mortem practices

Non-Technical competencies:

  • Exceptional consultative skills with the ability to influence and drive organisational change
  • Strong analytical thinking with the ability to assess complex organisational structures and recommend improvements
  • Excellent communication skills, able to translate technical concepts to various stakeholders from developers to C-level executives
  • Ability to identify ownership gaps and help establish clear responsibilities across teams
  • Collaborative approach to problem-solving, working effectively with cross-functional teams
  • Self-motivated with the ability to work independently while also integrating with client teams
  • Proven ability to build trust and credibility with technical and business stakeholders
  • Experience mentoring and up-skilling teams on DevOps practices and tools

Benefits

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 and discuss with a Client Partner (15/30mins)

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 of all kinds. We don’t discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. We also believe in work-life balance and offer flexible working around our core hours.

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Senior

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United Kingdom +/- 0 hours

About YLD.io

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Creating digital capabilities for you, that last beyond us. We are a software engineering and design consultancy that focuses on building capabilities in digital technologies. Our services cover various aspects, including software engineering, digital product design, and data science.

Our work encompasses multiple industry sectors where we help in developing end-to-end experiences with service integrations, scaling electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure for net-zero emissions, and building automatic energy trading capabilities. We are dedicated to accelerating scientific progress through innovation while enhancing growth with technologies powered by Python. Furthermore, we focus on building a multi-brand design system to ensure scalable efficiency and consistency across all projects. We are committed to fostering a progressive culture of learning within our teams, allowing our engineers to make substantial contributions to the open-source community.

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