Senior DevOps Engineer

Elliptic has helped trace and disrupt over $21.8 billion in illicit crypto laundered across blockchains, from sanctioned nation states to organized crime networks hiding funds through token swaps and unregulated exchanges. It’s how compliance and investigations teams fight back, tracking and screening transactions with 99% market coverage. The infrastructure behind all of this needs to be as resilient and sharp as the intelligence it delivers. We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong background in DevOps and extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes, someone who thrives on taking ownership, driving initiatives from concept to delivery, making informed decisions, and proactively improving systems and processes. You’ll play a key role in shaping our platform strategy, collaborating with talented engineers, and fostering a culture of reliability, security, and efficiency. The impact you will have: You will have a transformative impact across Ellitpic by evangelising DevOps, security, and reliability principles and fostering a culture of efficiency and autonomy. You will join a growing team of experienced and passionate engineers who are not afraid to fail and enjoy tackling difficult problems head-on. What you will do: - Provide senior DevOps expertise and leadership across Engineering at all layers of the stack - Evangelise DevOps, security and reliability engineering across the Engineering team-at-large - Provision resilient infrastructure across multiple regions and AZs - Build compliant, reliable and featureful developer platforms centered on container orchestration. - Enable Continuous Delivery and Deployment capabilities using CICD pipelines and GitOps tooling - Enable shifting left on security and testing, and facilitate progressive delivery in production - Measure and improve developer productivity and experience across the SDLC - Cost optimise infra through rightsizing and creating ephemeral, on-demand environments - Proactively monitor for security and reliability using Observability tooling including SIEM, APM, tracing, infrastructure metrics, logs and dashboards - Durably engineer away toil You will be a great fit here if you: - Are passionate about DevOps and, Security and Reliability engineering - Are passionate about helping engineering teams become high performing teams - Are passionate about helping build reliable and performant cloud-native applications - Act like an owner in every decision you take - Take challenges as opportunities - Enable our customers to achieve their mission - Are open with success, failure and learnings - Continuously test, learn and improve - Are fluent in AI and agentic workflows Our ideal candidate has production experience with most of the following: - Kubernetes container orchestration platform with an understanding of the cluster lifecycle, API, Operator pattern, Helm charts, addons and components from the CNCF landscape - Writing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform against AWS, GCP considering internal and external modularisation, multi-environment branching strategies, state manipulation, working to multiple versions - Provisioning cloud infrastructure to AWS, GCP, through Kubernetes controllers such as Crossplane, ACK, KRO - Building cloud-native container and serverless applications in distributed architectures on Kubernetes and Service Meshes such as Istio, Linkerd, App Mesh - Writing Helm charts to package and deliver application stacks into production - Delivering applications and infrastructure continuously using CI/CD tools such as GitlabCI, CircleCI, Github Actions, and GitOps using ArgoCD, FluxCD - Troubleshooting and debugging applications using Observability tooling across microservices and serverless applications such as Splunk, DataDog - Managing ephemeral secrets and credentials using Hashicorp Vault - Managing least privileged access to cloud resources using TPAM solutions such as Hashicorp Boundary Bonus Points for experience with: The follo