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# Lead DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** hedgehog lab
- **Location:** Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Github, Python (Programming Language), Node.Js, TypeScript, AI Platforms, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a233e27502509803

## About the Role

You'll have hands-on AWS experience in production, and be comfortable with infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform.

You'll know CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, plus containers and orchestration such as Docker, ECS or Kubernetes.

You'll have led or mentored engineers before, and you'll be confident talking to clients and non-technical stakeholders.

## Description

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 design and run AWS infrastructure 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 talk clients through technical decisions and trade-offs, and set the DevOps standards other projects follow., * 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

We're remote first, with no set office days. You'll come into an office or client site for important meetings, workshops and key moments.