Lead Cloud Engineer — AI-Powered Infra Architect

hedgehog lab; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday + bank holidays

Learning budget + time for training

Wellbeing days and budget

Enhanced sick pay and parental leave

Job summary

hedgehog lab is a digital product consultancy delivering apps and websites for public and private sector clients. We seek a lead cloud/DevOps engineer to steer technical decisions, design cloud architectures, and deliver AI-enabled workflows across client projects.

You will design, implement, and operate production cloud infra (primarily AWS) while mentoring teams and contributing to pre-sales and estimation activities. Location-flexible within the UK, with hybrid work options.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and running production cloud infrastructure, ideally on AWS.
• Background in software or cloud engineering with leadership capability.
• Experience building with AI agents and agentic workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical decisions and requirements on projects.
• Design the cloud infrastructure and how components fit together.
• Build proofs of concept to test designs early.
• Write production code and agentic workflows with AI agents.
• Run the cloud infrastructure and DevOps on projects.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Production cloud infra

AI agent workflows

Lead / tech leadership

Communicate decisions

AWS experience

Tools

AWS

TypeScript

Python

Node.js

Job description

hedgehog lab is a digital product consultancy delivering apps and websites for public and private sector clients. We seek a lead cloud/DevOps engineer to steer technical decisions, design cloud architectures, and deliver AI-enabled workflows across client projects.

You will design, implement, and operate production cloud infra (primarily AWS) while mentoring teams and contributing to pre-sales and estimation activities. Location-flexible within the UK, with hybrid work options.