Senior DevOps Engineer

London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
3 months ago
Job Type
Permanent
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Posted
5 Feb 2026 (3 months ago)

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 aSenior 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

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 following are genuinely bonus areas. Great if you have them, but not required.

  • 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 toError 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

We know Diversity and Inclusion are much deeper than just hiring, but it’s important for us to mention it here. We welcome and embrace individuals of all backgrounds and identities at Elliptic, which is our ongoing priority. We know incredible people don’t all think in the same way. We want to be challenged every day. We believe our diverse team of individuals underpins this by bringing creative thinking and innovation to Elliptic every day. We are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace, sowe welcome applications from everyone, even if you may not think you fit all of the requirements of our roles. We foster an environment of psychological safety where everyone feels comfortable bringing their whole self to work.

Job Benefits

> How we work:

  • Hybrid working and the option to work fromalmost anywhere for up to 90 days per year

  • £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space

> Learning & Development:

  • $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development

> Vacation/ Leave:

  • 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.

> Benefits:

  • 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

  • £100 Crypto for you!

  • Cycle to Work Scheme

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