DevOps / Platform Engineer (Contract)

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.

Apply below and I'll come back to you quickly.