Lead DevOps Engineer

Youre probably the person who gets called when a release breaks. Yet you rarely get a say in how the platform is built.

Here youll be the one deciding.

Youll shape how infrastructure pipelines and environments get built on your projects from the first client conversation to go-live.

Youll move between different clients and problems so you wont spend years on one platform.

Youll mentor other DevOps engineers and the standards you set will become how we work.

Youll join hedgehog lab a digital product consultancy with 20 years of experience. Were 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.

Youll work in project teams of 5 to 15 people alongside agentic engineers software engineers QA and designers.

Youll design and run AWS infrastructure for products built in TypeScript Node and Python.

Youll 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.

Youll talk clients through technical decisions and trade-offs and set the DevOps standards other projects follow.

• 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

Were remote first with no set office days. Youll come into an office or client site for important meetings workshops and key moments.

Youll have hands-on AWS experience in production and be comfortable with infrastructure as code ideally Terraform.

Youll know CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI plus containers and orchestration such as Docker ECS or Kubernetes.

Youll have led or mentored engineers before and youll be confident talking to clients and non-technical stakeholders.

If you want to set the direction apply below and well be in touch.