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Elliptic

Lead DevOps Engineer

Elliptic

Lead DevOps Engineer owning and evolving DevOps practices at Elliptic. Championing automation, efficiency, and continuous improvement across teams.

Posted 6/15/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudConsulFluxGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesMicroservicesSplunkTerraformVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own the DevOps and Platform roadmap, defining the automation, scaling, and multi-tenant Kubernetes-based Internal Developer Platform (IDP).
  • Lead by doing - 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.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 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.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 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 to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development
  • Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
  • An extra day for your birthday
  • Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave and leave.
  • Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
  • Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
  • Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
  • Cycle to Work Scheme

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Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesCNCFGitOpsInfrastructure-as-CodeTerraformAWSGCPCI/CDSASTDAST
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationhands-on contributiondirection setting