Lead DevOps Engineer - Shape Infra, Mentor Teams

Hedgehog Lab; Newcastle upon Tyne; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Impact Days

Wellbeing days

Learning budget and conferences

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption

Job summary

Hedgehog Lab is a digital product consultancy hiring a DevOps Engineer to design and run AWS infrastructure for products built in TypeScript, Node and Python. You will implement pipelines to release often and safely, manage environments as code, and ensure security and cost efficiency.

You will work in project teams of 5 to 15, mentor engineers, and set DevOps standards that others follow. The role is remote-first in the UK, with client-site work as needed and opportunities to influence multiple

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS experience in production
• Comfortable with infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform
• CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Containers and orchestration such as Docker, ECS or Kubernetes
• Led or mentored engineers before
• Confident talking to clients and non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Design and run AWS infrastructure for products built in TypeScript, Node and Python
• 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
• Talk clients through technical decisions and trade-offs, and set the DevOps standards other projects follow

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Mentorship

Infrastructure as Code

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

ECS

Job description

Hedgehog Lab is a digital product consultancy hiring a DevOps Engineer to design and run AWS infrastructure for products built in TypeScript, Node and Python. You will implement pipelines to release often and safely, manage environments as code, and ensure security and cost efficiency.

You will work in project teams of 5 to 15, mentor engineers, and set DevOps standards that others follow. The role is remote-first in the UK, with client-site work as needed and opportunities to influence multiple