DevOps engineer cloud infrastructure

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. You’ll join us as a Lead Cloud Engineer, which is what we call our DevOps engineers.

• You’ll own the cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP for products built in TypeScript, Node and Python, from design through to running it day to day.
• 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 talk clients through technical decisions and trade-offs, and set the DevOps standards other projects follow.

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

• 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
• 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.