Lead Cloud Engineer — AWS, DevOps, AI Prototyping

hedgehog lab; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Impact days

Wellbeing budget

Learning budget

Sick pay enhancement

Parental leave

Counselling services

Cycle to Work

Company laptop

Office access Leeds/Manchester

Job summary

hedgehog lab is a digital product consultancy with 20 years behind us. You’ll take the lead on the cloud side of client projects, decide how things should be set up and then build them yourself, with support to grow into the role.

Our teams of 5 to 15 work across health tech, retail and financial services. You’ll design cloud infrastructure, manage DevOps pipelines and environments, lead the technical side of a workstream, and build proofs of concept to test ideas early.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience designing and running cloud infrastructure, ideally on AWS.
• Experience leading the technical side of a project or workstream.
• Ability to work with TypeScript, Python or Node.
• Good grasp of architecture from working with architects.
• Experience using AI tools and building with agents.
• Confident explaining technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and build cloud infrastructure on projects.
• Look after DevOps, pipelines, environments and deployments.
• Lead the technical side of a workstream with tech leads and architects.
• Build proofs of concept to test ideas early.
• Support engineers with less cloud experience.
• Help estimate new work.

Skills

Cloud architecture

DevOps leadership

Communication with non-technical

Client interaction

AI tooling usage

Tools

AWS

TypeScript

Python

Node.js

CI/CD pipelines

Architectural diagrams

Job description

hedgehog lab is a digital product consultancy with 20 years behind us. You’ll take the lead on the cloud side of client projects, decide how things should be set up and then build them yourself, with support to grow into the role.

Our teams of 5 to 15 work across health tech, retail and financial services. You’ll design cloud infrastructure, manage DevOps pipelines and environments, lead the technical side of a workstream, and build proofs of concept to test ideas early.