Troubles using env and config with Console Commands

With Laravel 6.2, PHP 7.4, on Ubuntu 18 LTS I'm having trouble using env and config in production. Locally, since I do not cache my config, I am able to use env with Console Commands. However in production with a cached config, both env and config return nulls when running a command.

These same variables work when accessed via a web route

$ php artisan config:clear
Configuration cache cleared!

$ php artisan scratch
^ "my-s3-bucket"
^ null

$ php artisan config:cache
Configuration cache cleared!
Configuration cached successfully!

$ php artisan scratch
^ null
^ null
$

Here is the command

<?php

namespace App\Console\Commands;

use App\Models\Publication;
use Aws\S3\S3Client;
use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;
use Symfony\Component\Process\Process;

class Scratch extends Command {
  /**
   * The name and signature of the console command.
   *
   * @var string
   */
  protected $signature = 'scratch';

  /**
   * The console command description.
   *
   * @var string
   */
  protected $description = 'Command description';

  /**
   * Create a new command instance.
   *
   * @return void
   */
  public function __construct() {
    parent::__construct();
  }

  /**
   * Execute the console command.
   *
   * @return mixed
   */
  public function handle() {
    dump(env('AWS_BUCKET'));
    dump(config('AWS_BUCKET'));
  }
}

I am using https://deployer.org/ to deploy apps

So the .env file is symlinked to ../../shared/.env. If I cat .env it shows the variables correctly and again the web app works fine, this is limited to only console commands.

It is a fairly simple deploy.php

<?php
namespace Deployer;

require 'recipe/laravel.php';

// Project name
set('application', 'my-app');

// Project repository
set('repository', '[email protected]:my-app/my-app.git');

// tty breaks github actions
set('git_tty', false);

// Shared files/dirs between deploys
add('shared_files', ['.env']);
add('shared_dirs', ['storage']);

// Writable dirs by web server
add('writable_dirs', [
  "storage",
  "bootstrap/cache",
]);


// Hosts

host('prod.v2.console')
  ->user('my-app')
  ->set('deploy_path', '~/{{application}}');

// Tasks

task('build', function () {
  // run('cd {{release_path}} && build');
});

// [Optional] if deploy fails automatically unlock.
after('deploy:failed', 'deploy:unlock');

// Migrate database before symlink new release.
before('deploy:symlink', 'artisan:migrate');

task('restart supervisor', function() {
  run('sudo /etc/init.d/supervisor restart');
});

What steps am I missing or proper way to access an environment var via console?