DevOps / Platform Engineer (Contract) Engineering Edinburgh, London, Bristol

Job Description

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.

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.

We’re a certified B Corp.

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.