Senior 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 have a real say in it.

Whats in it for you

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

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

Youll help set the DevOps standards we use across projects so your ideas go further than one client.

Who youll be doing it for

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.

What youll be doing

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

Youll design and run cloud infrastructure across AWS Azure and GCP 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 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 youll work

Whilst theres no set number of days youre 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 well 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 youll need to be based within 50 miles of one of our offices in Edinburgh Newcastle Leeds Manchester or London.

Experience youll 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

Apply

If you want a say in how platforms get built apply below and well be in touch.