Lead DevOps Engineer: AWS Infra, CI/CD & Mentorship

Hedgehog Lab; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday + bank holidays

Impact days for learning/volunteering

Wellbeing days + wellbeing budget + 5y

Job summary

Hedgehog Lab, a digital product consultancy with 20 years of experience, around 100 people, and remote-first culture, works with public and private sector clients undergoing digital transformation. You’ll lead AWS infrastructure design and CI/CD pipelines across TypeScript, Node and Python projects, mentoring engineers and shaping DevOps standards across engagements.

You’ll collaborate with diverse client teams, travel to important workshops as needed, and help ensure secure, monitored, and

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS production experience.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions or GitLab CI).
• Containers and orchestration (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes).
• Experience mentoring engineers and communicating with clients.

Responsibilities

• Design and run AWS infrastructure for projects.
• Build CI/CD pipelines to enable frequent, safe releases.
• Manage environments as code for security, monitoring and cost control.
• Talk clients through technical decisions and trade-offs; set DevOps standards.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Tools

Docker

ECS

Kubernetes

Job description

Hedgehog Lab, a digital product consultancy with 20 years of experience, around 100 people, and remote-first culture, works with public and private sector clients undergoing digital transformation. You’ll lead AWS infrastructure design and CI/CD pipelines across TypeScript, Node and Python projects, mentoring engineers and shaping DevOps standards across engagements.

You’ll collaborate with diverse client teams, travel to important workshops as needed, and help ensure secure, monitored, and