Lead Cloud Engineer — AI-Driven Infra & DevOps

hedgehog lab; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday & leave: 28 days + bank hols

Impact days for learning/volunteering

Wellbeing days + wellbeing budget

Learning budget for training & confs

Enhanced sick pay & parental leave

Counselling, Cycle to Work, laptop

Job summary

hedgehog lab is seeking a senior cloud/DevOps lead to design and run cloud infrastructure on client projects across AWS. You’ll own the technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with architects and product teams.

You’ll partner with delivery and product to shape solutions, build proofs of concept, and help estimate new work while growing into a leadership role and guiding AI-enabled engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience designing and running cloud infrastructure, ideally on AWS.
• Experience leading the technical side of a project or workstream, even if it wasn’t your job title.
• Enough TypeScript, Python or Node to work closely with the engineers building on your infrastructure.
• A good grasp of architecture from working alongside architects.
• You’ve started building with AI agents, beyond asking a chatbot for code. Your own projects count, and a GitHub repo you can walk us through is a good way to show it.
• Confidence explaining technical decisions to people who aren’t technical.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building cloud infrastructure on projects.
• Looking after DevOps, from pipelines to environments and deployments.
• Leading the technical side of a workstream, working with tech leads and architects.
• Building proofs of concept to test ideas early
• Supporting engineers with less cloud experience
• Helping estimate new work

Skills

Cloud design

DevOps leadership

AI agents

TypeScript

Python

Node.js

GitHub

Technical communication

Tools

AWS

TypeScript

Python

Node.js

GitHub

Job description

hedgehog lab is seeking a senior cloud/DevOps lead to design and run cloud infrastructure on client projects across AWS. You’ll own the technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with architects and product teams.

You’ll partner with delivery and product to shape solutions, build proofs of concept, and help estimate new work while growing into a leadership role and guiding AI-enabled engineering practices.