Senior Cloud Engineer

Hedgehog Lab; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

5 Impact Days/year

Wellbeing days and budget

Learning budget and conferences

Enhanced parental leave

Job summary

Hedgehog Lab in the United Kingdom is seeking a DevOps Engineer to help shape how infrastructure, pipelines and environments are built on client projects.

You’ll design and run cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP, and build CI/CD pipelines that enable frequent, safe releases, managed as code to keep environments secure and cost-effective. You’ll work with client teams on technical decisions in a consultancy setting.

Qualifications

• Running infrastructure in production on AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Infrastructure as code and IaC tooling.
• CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Containers and orchestration with Docker or ECS.
• Experience working with clients or non-technical stakeholders on technical decisions.
• Nice to have: multi-cloud, Terraform, Kubernetes in production, consultancy/agency experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and run cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP for products built in TypeScript, Node and Python.
• Build CI/CD pipelines that enable frequent, safe releases and manage them as code to keep environments secure and cost-effective.
• Collaborate with clients and project teams on technical decisions and trade-offs.

Skills

AWS/Azure/GCP

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD tooling

Docker/ECS

Client liaison

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Terraform

Kubernetes

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 have a real say in it.

What’s In It For You

You’ll help shape how infrastructure, pipelines and environments get built on your projects, from early client conversations to go-live.

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

You’ll help set the DevOps standards we use across projects, so your ideas go further than one client.

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 design and run cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP for products built in TypeScript, Node and Python.

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 work with clients and project teams on technical decisions and trade-offs.

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
• Working with clients or non-technical stakeholders on technical decisions

Nice to have:

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