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Elliptic

Senior DevOps Engineer

Elliptic

Senior DevOps Engineer developing resilient infrastructure and improving engineering processes at Elliptic. Fostering security, reliability, and efficiency in a dynamic engineering environment.

Posted 7/21/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in DevOps, Security, and Reliability Engineering, with a strong focus on building and provisioning cloud-native applications using Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform. Proficient in enabling Continuous Delivery and Deployment through CI/CD pipelines and GitOps methodologies while ensuring security and observability across the software development lifecycle.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Kubernetes Container OrchestrationInfrastructure-as-Code with TerraformCI/CD Tools (GitlabCI, CircleCI, Github Actions)Observability Tooling (Splunk, DataDog)Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning (AWS, GCP)

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Hard Skills
KubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitOpsHelm ChartsObservabilityCloud InfrastructureService MeshHashicorp VaultDistributed Software Architecture
Soft Skills
LeadershipCollaborationProblem-SolvingAdaptabilityContinuous Improvement
Tools & Technologies
GitlabCICircleCIGithub ActionsArgoCDFluxCDSplunkDataDogHashicorp BoundaryAWSGCP
Industry Keywords
DevOpsSecurity EngineeringReliability EngineeringCloud-Native ApplicationsBusiness Continuity PlanningDisaster Recovery PlanningCryptoCurrency InfrastructureMicroservicesServerless ApplicationsChaos Engineering

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJavaScriptKubernetesMicroservicesPythonSDLCSparkSplunkTerraformVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • 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

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 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:**
  • - Production experience architecting provisioning and testing strategies for multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments
  • - Development and testing strategies for Terraform for Production
  • - Production experience with advanced multi-cluster Service Mesh capabilities on Kubernetes
  • - Production experience developing Kubernetes Operators
  • - Production experience with OSS API Gateways and Ingress controllers
  • - Production Software Engineering using a high level language like Go, Java, JavaScript, Python
  • - Distributed Software Architecture exposure in high volume production scenarios
  • - Working with Data Mesh, BigData technologies such as EMR, Spark, Databricks
  • - Designing, tracking and testing to SLOs and Chaos Engineering to Error Budgets
  • - Implementing Business Continuity (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DRP) plans including tracking RTO and RPO
  • - CryptoCurrency domain knowledge and infrastructure experience running Currency Daemons, integrating provider APIs

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
  • 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