Lead Cloud Engineer Engineering ·

Hedgehog Lab; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Impact Days for learning/volunteering

Wellbeing days + wellbeing budget + 1:

Free counselling

Job summary

Hedgehog Lab seeks a DevOps lead to own multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP) and design robust CI/CD pipelines for client projects. You’ll mentor engineers, set DevOps standards, and translate technical trade-offs to clients.

You’ll work across public and private sector clients, with teams of 5–15, shaping how infrastructure, pipelines and environments are built from initial client conversations to go-live.

Qualifications

• Running infrastructure in production on AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Infrastructure as code.
• CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Containers and orchestration such as Docker or ECS.
• Mentoring or leading other engineers.
• Explaining technical decisions to clients or non-technical stakeholders.
• Spotting problems and improvements early, and seeing them through without being chased.

Responsibilities

• Own the cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP from design to day-to-day operation.
• Build CI/CD pipelines that enable frequent, safe releases and manage environments as code.
• Explain technical decisions to clients and set DevOps standards for projects.
• Collaborate with engineers, QA and designers in project teams of 5–15 people.

Skills

Cloud infra

Mentoring

Client comms

DevOps standards

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

ECS

Job description

You’re probably the person who gets called when a release breaks. Yet you rarely get a say in how the platform is built.

Here, you’ll be the one deciding.

What’s in it for you

You’ll shape how infrastructure, pipelines and environments get built on your projects, from the first client conversation to go-live.

You’ll move between different clients and problems, so you won’t spend years on one platform.

You’ll work alongside and mentor a senior DevOps engineer, and the standards you set will become how we work.

Who you’ll be doing it for

You’ll join hedgehog lab, a digital product consultancy with 20 years of experience. We’re around 100 people, B Corp and Great Place to Work certified, and backed by a growth capital investor.

Your clients will be public and private sector organisations going through digital transformation, from moving to a new tech stack to building an AI platform from scratch. They include retail, health tech and financial services businesses.

You’ll work in project teams of 5 to 15 people, alongside agentic engineers, software engineers, QA and designers.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll own the cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP for products built in TypeScript, Node and Python, from design through to running it day to day.

You’ll build the CI/CD pipelines that let teams release often and safely, and manage it all as code so environments stay secure, monitored and cost effective.

You’ll talk clients through technical decisions and trade-offs, and set the DevOps standards other projects follow.

Benefits and perks

• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Five paid Impact Days a year for learning, volunteering or trying something new
• Two wellbeing days a year, a wellbeing budget and free counselling
• Learning budget plus time for training and conferences
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave

Where you’ll work

Whilst there’s no set number of days you’re required to be in the office each week, we really value spending time together in person, both as a team and with our clients. There will be times when we’ll need you to be in one of our offices or at a client site for important meetings, workshops and key moments.

To make that work, you’ll need to be based within 50 miles of one of our offices in Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester or London.

Experience you’ll need

Essential:

• Running infrastructure in production on AWS, Azure or GCP
• Infrastructure as code
• CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Containers and orchestration such as Docker or ECS
• Mentoring or leading other engineers
• Explaining technical decisions to clients or non-technical stakeholders
• Spotting problems and improvements early, and seeing them through without being chased

Nice to have:

• Working across more than one of AWS, Azure and GCP
• Terraform
• Kubernetes in production
• Working in a consultancy or agency