Lead Cloud Engineer: Multi-Cloud Infra & CI/CD Leader

Hedgehog Lab; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Five paid Impact Days a year

Two wellbeing days a year

Learning budget

Enhanced parental leave

Job summary

Hedgehog Lab is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer to own cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP, guiding projects from design through day-to-day operations. You’ll shape CI/CD pipelines, ensure environments are secure, monitored and cost effective, and mentor a team of engineers.

You’ll work with clients in public and private sectors on digital transformation, communicate complex trade-offs clearly, and set DevOps standards that other projects follow.

Qualifications

• Running infrastructure in production on AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Infrastructure as code using modern tooling.
• 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 for products built in TypeScript, Node and Python.
• Design and run CI/CD pipelines for frequent, safe releases.
• Manage environments as code to keep them secure, monitored and cost effective.
• Discuss trade-offs with clients and set DevOps standards for projects.
• Work with and mentor a team of engineers in project settings.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure management

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD tooling

Containers & orchestration

Mentoring engineers

Client communication

Problem detection & remediation

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Terraform

Job description

Hedgehog Lab is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer to own cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP, guiding projects from design through day-to-day operations. You’ll shape CI/CD pipelines, ensure environments are secure, monitored and cost effective, and mentor a team of engineers.

You’ll work with clients in public and private sectors on digital transformation, communicate complex trade-offs clearly, and set DevOps standards that other projects follow.