Lead DevOps Engineer
Elliptic offers comprehensive blockchain analytics and crypto compliance solutions. They provide advanced digital asset data and intelligence to help a wide range of clients, including financial institutions, crypto businesses, and government agencies, with crypto compliance and forensic investigations. Their services are designed for the next-generation of blockchain ecosystem builders.
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About Elliptic
Elliptic provides advanced blockchain analytics, digital asset data, and intelligence for crypto compliance and forensic investigations. Their solutions cater to a wide range of clients, including financial institutions, crypto businesses, government agencies, law enforcement, and regulators. Elliptic's platform leverages a massive dataset of over 100 billion data points, covering 99% of global trading volume and over 1 billion crypto addresses, to offer enterprise-grade risk management. Key features include automated compliance through APIs, on-chain and cross-chain screening, transaction monitoring, and investigative tools. The company aims to simplify compliance, reduce risk, and lower costs for its clients, while also providing professional training and educational resources to build expertise in the crypto space.
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About the Role
You'll lead a team of DevOps engineers while staying close to the technical work, setting direction on infrastructure, automation, and reliability. You will have a deep impact across the company by championing DevOps, security, and reliability principles, helping build a culture of automation, efficiency, and continuous improvement. You will work alongside experienced and passionate engineers, balancing technical expertise with team leadership in this hands-on Lead role.
Requirements
- Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams with the ability to set direction and contribute hands-on
- Strong Kubernetes knowledge, including cluster lifecycle management, API extensions, Operators, Helm, and the broader CNCF ecosystem (Cilium, ExternalDNS, Kyverno, Gatekeeper)
- Designing and operating multi-cluster, multi-region Kubernetes platforms with service meshes such as Istio, Consul, or Linkerd and policy-based workload placement
- Writing Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform on AWS or GCP using modular design, GitOps integration, and automated testing (Terratest, InSpec)
- Implementing GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD or FluxCD for progressive delivery, drift correction, and multi-environment releases
- Building containerized, serverless, or event-driven systems with strong observability using DataDog, Splunk, or OpenTelemetry
- Strengthening platform security through Vault-based secret management, least privilege access, and compliance automation
- Designing CI/CD workflows that include SAST, DAST, policy enforcement, and performance telemetry
- Improving reliability and resilience through SLOs, error budgets, and chaos engineering
Responsibilities
- Own the DevOps and Platform roadmap, defining the automation, scaling, and multi-tenant Kubernetes-based Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
- Engineer, review, and enhance Kubernetes and CNCF-aligned infrastructure, setting technical standards
- Architect multi-cluster, multi-region environments using Istio/Linkerd, Cluster API, and Kyverno
- Build progressive delivery frameworks with Flux and Flagger for GitOps-driven, canary, and automated releases
- Implement modern provisioning with controllers like Crossplane and ACK for Kubernetes-native cloud integration
- Define and enforce Zero Trust architecture with Vault, Boundary, service identity, and mTLS-secured meshes
- Engineer policy-driven automation and compliance using OPA, Kyverno, and secure supply chain configurations
- Establish IaC and GitOps standards, adding automated testing to every infrastructure change
- Prototype agentic infrastructure components, including deployment and observability platforms in service meshes
- Design AI Gateways and Registries for traffic and event routing between microservices and autonomous agents via CNCF Gateway APIs
- Champion DevSecOps maturity by embedding SAST/DAST, chaos engineering, and error budget monitoring
- Collaborate with Security, Data, and AI teams to shape DevOps and AI platform architectures with regulatory compliance
- Stay ahead of CNCF and AI ecosystem innovations, from eBPF observability to agent-aware orchestration
Benefits
- Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
- £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space
- $1,000 Learning & Development budget
- 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- An extra day for your birthday
- 16 weeks fully-paid parental leave
- Private Health Insurance (Vitality)
- Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
- Life Assurance covering 4 times your salary
- Cycle to Work Scheme