Lead Cloud Engineer - AI-Enabled Infra & Client Projects

Hedgehog Lab; Ledston; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday + bank holidays

Impact Days for learning/volunteering

Wellbeing days + wellbeing budget

Learning budget for training/confs

Enhanced sick pay & parental leave

Free counselling, Cycle to Work, and a

company laptop

Job summary

Hedgehog Lab is looking for a senior cloud/DevOps engineer to lead the cloud side of client projects. You will design and build cloud infrastructure, own DevOps pipelines, and guide the technical direction for workstreams with architects and tech leads.

You may have previously acted as a lead or seek the opportunity to grow into one, with support. Join teams delivering AI-enabled platforms for health tech, retail and financial services across the UK.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience designing and running cloud infrastructure, ideally on AWS.
• Experience leading the technical side of a project or workstream, even if not titled as lead.
• Proficiency with TypeScript, Python or Node to collaborate with engineers.
• Strong understanding of software architecture alongside architects.
• You've started building with AI agents; a GitHub repo to show your work is ideal.
• Ability to explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Cloud infrastructure design

AWS experience

Technical leadership

TypeScript / Python / Node

System architecture

AI agents development

Communicating decisions

Tools

GitHub

Job description

Hedgehog Lab is looking for a senior cloud/DevOps engineer to lead the cloud side of client projects. You will design and build cloud infrastructure, own DevOps pipelines, and guide the technical direction for workstreams with architects and tech leads.

You may have previously acted as a lead or seek the opportunity to grow into one, with support. Join teams delivering AI-enabled platforms for health tech, retail and financial services across the UK.