hedgehog lab is a humancentred global tech consultancy. What sets us apart Our unwavering commitment to going above and beyond meeting every challenge with passion and curiosity. We take immense pride in our role as trusted partners for businesses worldwide where we harness cuttingedge technologies to sculpt digital products that not only meet but exceed expectations leaving a lasting impact on our clients and their industries.
Our culture thrives on turning constraints into catalysts for innovation empowering our team to unleash their full potential and deliver unparalleled value to our clients. Beyond our awardwinning work were also known for our Flexacertified company culture.
Were looking for a passionate JOB TITLE whos committed to delivering products that cut through the complexities of digital transformation and bring valuable business visions to life.
The Opportunity:
- Our Mission: To become the most respected global digital product consultancy by digitally crafting a better world.
- Your Mission: To architect implement and maintain resilient scalable and secure cloud infrastructure for a wide range of client projects at hedgehog lab. Youll play a key role in advancing our internal DevOps practices and tools while contributing to the success of crossfunctional teams delivering worldclass digital products.
- Aim:
- Define and support cloud infrastructure that underpins reliable performant and secure applications.
- Evolve and enhance internal DevOps culture tooling and CI/CD processes.
- Collaborate crossfunctionally to continuously innovate and improve development workflows and system operations.
- Foster observability and reliability across live systems through bestinclass monitoring and automation
- Day to Day:
- Collaborate with engineers and architects to define and implement cloud backend infrastructure.
- Build and maintain cloud environments and deployment pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions Docker and Terraform.
- Manage and monitor live client systems using tools like Datadog New Relic and Sentry.
- Contribute to automated testing security hardening and CI/CD efficiency improvements.
- Participate in troubleshooting performance tuning and incident resolution.
- Continuously refine internal documentation and DevOps processes.
- Research and introduce new tools and best practices aligned with our DevOps journey.
- Growth/Development Opportunities
- Work with a wide variety of cloud services and modern DevOps toolchains.
- Gain experience across Azure GCP AWS Kubernetes CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.
- Influence and shape DevOps practices and culture at a global humancentred consultancy.
- Exposure to projects across diverse industries and technical stacks.
- Learn from and contribute to a multidisciplinary team passionate about pushing boundaries in digital innovation.
- Measure of success:
- High availability and performance of deployed applications.
- Timely and secure delivery of infrastructure components across multiple projects.
- Reduction in manual interventions through automation and selfhealing systems.
- Positive feedback from engineering teams on the usability and efficiency of DevOps tools and practices.
- Continuous improvement in CI/CD performance and incident response tim
About you:
- Extensive experience with Azure or Google Cloud Platform either in a commercial setting or private projects with knowledge of alternative cloud providers such as AWS an advantage.
- Comfortable with Linux based operating systems able to edit script and use the CLI
- Familiar with Continuous Integration Deployment Automation and writing pipelines using Github Actions
- Strong experience using containerisation tools like Docker and docker compose
- Handson knowledge of container management tools like Azure Container Apps/GCP Cloud Run.
- Experience with GCP features such as Cloud IAM Organisation Policy Service Firebase Authentication Identity Platform Cloud KMS Certificate Manager VPC Cloud Storage Cloud CDN pub/sub Cloud SQL Compute Engine Google Kubernetes Engine Cloud Run
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- Experience with Azure features such as Azure Active Directory RBAC Azure Policy Azure AD B2C Azure Key Vault Azure Virtual Network Azure Blob Storage Azure Front Door Azure CDN Azure Notification Hubs Event Grid Azure Queue Storage Service Bus Queues Azure SQL Database Azure Virtual Machines Azure Container Environments Azure Kubernetes Services
- An awareness of AWS tools would be beneficial but is not required
- Experience with building using infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or Azure Resource Manager
- Demonstrable knowledge of core DevOps principles like Security Automation AutoScale up/down networking and SelfHealing techniques
- Basic understanding of Android and iOS projects and experience on mobile build automation tools like Fastlane
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (such as Datadog New Relic Sentry etc.
Note: Research shows that women and individuals from underrepresented backgrounds often refrain from applying to positions unless they meet all the specified criteria. If you believe you possess the necessary qualities for this role but do not fulfil every requirement dont hesitate to apply. We actively encourage you to showcase your skills and what you can contribute.
Our interview process:
Stage 1 Intro Call with a member of the Talent team Andrew 30 minutes Google Meet)
Stage 2 Take home tech test (no deadline simply return when youre happy)
Stage 3 Final stage interview with at least 2 member of the hiring team 60 minutes Google Meet)
Why hedgehog lab
What we offer:
36 days paid holidays (UK) including bank holidays.
30 days paid holidays (Bulgaria) including public holidays and special leave days
Flexible working environment. We understand that not one approach fits everyone. Whether they are working from the office or home we fully support our team in whichever way they prefer to work.
Enhanced parental policies.
A transparent and open company culture where politics are shunned and everyone works as a team.
Annual learning & development budget (Global) plus 4 days L&D leave which renews every year
Annual wellbeing budget (Global) plus 2 paid wellbeing days to use as you feel fit
Free therapy sessions with Spill (Global). Mental health is paramount to us. Our partner Spill is a Slackintegrated therapy app available to all our staff at no extra cost
Bippit financial wellbeing service (UK) gives everyone access to a professionallyqualified financial coach tools and resources to alleviate money stresses.
Bupa health plan (UK). This cash plan enables UK employees to claim back cash back for a selection of routine health expenses
1 volunteering day a year. Volunteer and contribute to a cause of your choice (Global)
Monthly payday socials and annual Summer and Christmas parties. We also like to celebrate important cultural milestones.
CycletoWork scheme (UK)
Multisport card (Bulgaria). Access to over 1000 facilities and 500 activities nationwide
Diversity & inclusion statement
We strongly believe that having diversity within our team is integral to doing our best work and creating the most innovative products for our customers. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply to our roles.
Were a familyfriendly employer with a culture based on trust autonomy and flexibility. With a current 85 FlexScore were learning as we go. By listening to our team and always asking for feedback we can continue to improve and offer a working environment worthy of attracting the most creative and dedicated people in technology.
If you require any adjustments to submit an application for a vacancy or if you require any reasonable adjustment should you be invited to interview please let us know.
For any questions about this role or future opportunities please contact Holly Orange Talent Acquisition Adviser at or