Senior DevOps Engineer

Hedgehog Lab; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday + bank holidays

Five Impact Days a year for learning/­

Two wellbeing days a year + wellbeing/

Learning budget + training/conferences

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption

Job summary

Hedgehog Lab, a digital product consultancy, is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design and run cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP. You will build and manage CI/CD pipelines, and treat infrastructure as code while ensuring security, monitoring and cost-efficiency.

You’ll work with project teams and clients on technical decisions, contributing to delivery across multiple client engagements in a consultancy setting.

Qualifications

• Essential: Running infrastructure in production on AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Essential: Infrastructure as code.
• Essential: CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Essential: Containers and orchestration such as Docker or ECS.
• Essential: Working with clients or non-technical stakeholders on technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design and run cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Build CI/CD pipelines to enable frequent, safe releases.
• Manage infrastructure as code and keep environments secure, monitored and cost-effective.
• Collaborate with clients and project teams on technical decisions and trade-offs.

Skills

Infrastructure in production

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD pipelines

Containers and orchestration

Stakeholder collaboration

Multi-cloud experience

Consultancy experience

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Docker

ECS

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.

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 join us as a Senior Cloud Engineer, which is what we call our DevOps engineers. 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