Lead Cloud Engineer — AI-Driven Infra & Deployments

Hedgehog Lab; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Impact Days

Wellbeing days

Learning budget

Enhanced sick pay

Free counselling

Cycle to Work

Company laptop

Job summary

Hedgehog Lab is looking for a senior cloud/DevOps engineer to lead the cloud side of client projects, deciding how things should be set up and then building them.

You’ll collaborate with delivery and product teams from early conversations, mentor engineers, and grow into leadership with support as you expand into AI-enabled platforms.

The role offers a clear path to seniority within a collaborative consultancy.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience designing and running cloud infrastructure, ideally on AWS.
• Experience leading the technical side of a project or workstream.
• Proficiency with TypeScript, Python or Node.
• Strong architecture sense from working with architects.
• Experience building with AI agents; GitHub repo to show.
• Ability to explain technical decisions to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design and build cloud infrastructure on projects.
• Leading DevOps pipelines, environments and deployments.
• Leading the technical side of a workstream with tech leads and architects.
• Building proofs of concept to test ideas early.
• Helping estimate new work and mentoring engineers.

Skills

Cloud architecture

DevOps leadership

Scripting languages

AI agent experience

Technical communication

Tools

AWS

Job description

Hedgehog Lab is looking for a senior cloud/DevOps engineer to lead the cloud side of client projects, deciding how things should be set up and then building them.

You’ll collaborate with delivery and product teams from early conversations, mentor engineers, and grow into leadership with support as you expand into AI-enabled platforms.

The role offers a clear path to seniority within a collaborative consultancy.