hedgehog lab
DevOps / Platform Engineer (Contract)
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Everything ships through the pipeline you own. We're hiring a DevOps / Platform Engineer to run the delivery platform behind a large regulated UK organisation's services, keeping deployments fast, safe and boring in the best way.
What You'll Do
- Run and improve OpenShift and Kubernetes environments on AWS.
- Own CI/CD across GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD and Nexus.
- Keep security and dependencies in check with Snyk and Renovate.
- Manage feature delivery with LaunchDarkly and monitoring with Splunk and Dynatrace.
What We're Looking For
- Strong AWS experience.
- Strong OpenShift or Kubernetes experience.
- Deep CI/CD experience across GitHub Actions, Jenkins and ArgoCD.
- Hands-on with observability tooling like Splunk and Dynatrace.
- A security-first, automation-first way of working.
- Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot as part of your everyday workflow.
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Bonus points for LaunchDarkly, Renovate, Snyk and financial services experience.
About Hedgehog Lab
We're hedgehog lab, a digital product and engineering consultancy. For nearly 20 years we've embedded engineers inside the teams of well-known organisations in regulated, high-trust sectors, from financial services to the public sector.
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We're also serious about AI-assisted engineering. We've built our own agentic tooling and cut time-to-merge by around 60% on recent work, and our people get to use that on real projects.
The Details
- Contract, outside IR35.
- 3 to 6 months, with potential to extend.
- Hybrid. You'll work from the client's London, Bristol or Edinburgh office a couple of times a week.
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