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About The Company
Elliptic is a leading provider of blockchain analytics and cryptocurrency compliance solutions. With a proven track record of tracing and disrupting over $21.8 billion in illicit crypto transactions, Elliptic plays a crucial role in combating financial crime across various blockchain networks. Their technology helps compliance and investigations teams identify and prevent illegal activities, including sanctions violations, money laundering, and organized crime, by providing comprehensive transaction screening and market coverage. Elliptic’s infrastructure is built to be resilient, scalable, and intelligent, supporting the company’s mission to make cryptocurrencies safer and more transparent for everyone.
About The Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer to join Elliptic’s dynamic engineering team. In this pivotal role, you will own and evolve our DevOps practices, setting the technical direction for infrastructure, automation, and reliability. You will lead a team of talented DevOps engineers, balancing hands-on technical work with strategic leadership. Your expertise will be instrumental in building and maintaining multi-region, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, supporting our AI Gateway and LangChain/LangGraph infrastructure, and implementing advanced security and compliance measures. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of Elliptic’s platform, ensuring it remains robust, secure, and capable of supporting innovative AI-driven products and services.
Qualifications
- Proven experience leading or mentoring engineering teams with the ability to set technical direction and contribute hands-on
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes, including cluster lifecycle management, API extensions, Operators, Helm, and the broader CNCF ecosystem
- Experience designing and operating multi-cluster, multi-region Kubernetes platforms with service meshes such as Istio, Linkerd, or Consul
- Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform on AWS or GCP, with a focus on modular design and automated testing
- Hands-on experience with GitOps tools like ArgoCD or FluxCD for progressive delivery and multi-environment automation
- Knowledge of containerized, serverless, or event-driven systems with strong observability practices using DataDog, OpenTelemetry, or Splunk
- Security expertise, including secret management with Vault, least privilege access, and compliance automation
- Experience with CI/CD workflows incorporating SAST, DAST, policy enforcement, and performance telemetry
- Familiarity with deploying and operating AI infrastructure, including AI Gateways and services like Kong AI Gateway or LangGraph
- Excellent communication skills and a passion for building secure, scalable, and reliable systems
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Responsibilities
- Own and drive the DevOps and Platform roadmap, including Kubernetes platform evolution, application packaging, and migration to EKS
- Lead by example—engineer, review, and enhance Kubernetes and CNCF-aligned infrastructure, establishing technical standards
- Architect multi-cluster, multi-region environments utilizing Istio/Linkerd, Cluster API, and Kyverno
- Develop progressive delivery frameworks with Flux and Flagger to enable GitOps-driven, automated, and canary releases
- Implement modern provisioning solutions with Crossplane and ACK for Kubernetes-native cloud integration
- Define and enforce Zero Trust architecture principles using Vault, Boundary, service identity, and mTLS-secured meshes
- Automate policy enforcement and compliance through OPA, Kyverno, and secure supply chain configurations
- Establish Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps standards, incorporating automated testing for infrastructure changes
- Prototype agentic infrastructure components, including deployment and observability platforms within service meshes
- Contribute to the development of the Kong AI Gateway, including data plane deployments, SSL integration, and observability
- Champion DevSecOps maturity by integrating security testing, chaos engineering, and error budget monitoring
- Collaborate with Security, Data, and AI teams to design platform architectures compliant with regulatory standards
- Stay current with CNCF and AI ecosystem innovations, exploring new observability and orchestration technologies
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Benefits
- Hybrid working model with flexible options to work remotely up to 90 days per year
- £500 remote working budget for home office setup
- $1,000 Learning & Development budget to support your professional growth
- 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with an additional day off for your birthday
- Enhanced parental leave offering 16 weeks of fully paid leave for eligible employees
- Private Health Insurance through Bupa
- Access to Spill Mental Health Support services
- Life Assurance coverage of four times your salary
- Cycle to Work Scheme to promote sustainable commuting
Equal Opportunity
Elliptic is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, genders, and identities. We believe that a diverse team enhances our innovation, creativity, and overall success. We provide a supportive environment that promotes psychological safety, where everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work. Our ongoing commitment is to ensure equity and inclusion in all aspects of our hiring and employment practices.
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