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It’s how compliance and investigations teams fight back, tracking and screening transactions with 99% market coverage.\nThe infrastructure behind all of this needs to be as resilient and sharp as the intelligence it delivers. We're looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to own and evolve our DevOps practices. This is a role for someone who combines deep technical ability with a genuine passion for growing the team. You'll lead a team of DevOps engineers while staying close to the technical work, setting direction on infrastructure, automation, and reliability.\nThe impact you will have:\nAs a Lead DevOps Engineer at Elliptic, you will have a deep impact across the company by championing DevOps, security, and reliability principles. You’ll help build a culture of automation, efficiency, and continuous improvement, empowering teams to deliver secure, high-quality software with confidence. Current major projects include delivering AI Gateway and supporting LangChain/LangGraph infrastructure for Elliptic's AI products, managing disaster recovery (DR) infrastructure, and administering Kubernetes clusters across multi-region AWS environments. You’ll work alongside experienced and passionate engineers who enjoy solving tough challenges and learning from one another. This is a hands-on team Lead role where you will balance technical expertise with team leadership.\nElliptic is building an AI fluent workforce. Across our Product, Engineering, Design and Intelligence we’re going beyond giving everyone the tools. We’re setting new standards. Using AI to transform how we build and work every day to deliver on our market opportunity. Put another way our teams iterate alongside agentic systems applying judgement to build world class systems.\nThis role requires 'Transformative' AI fluency. This means you've already made production decisions about how AI systems get built, evaluated, and used responsibly, and you're ready to raise the bar for the engineers around you from day one.\nWhat you will do:\nOwn the DevOps and Platform roadmap, including Kubernetes platform evolution, application packaging and migration to EKS, and enabling engineering teams to ship reliably to production.\n\nLead by doing - engineer, review, and enhance Kubernetes and CNCF-aligned infrastructure, setting technical standards.\n\nArchitect multi-cluster, multi-region environments using Istio/Linkerd, Cluster API, and Kyverno.\n\nBuild progressive delivery frameworks with Flux and Flagger for GitOps-driven, canary, and automated releases.\n\nImplement modern provisioning with controllers like Crossplane and ACK for Kubernetes-native cloud integration.\n\nDefine and enforce Zero Trust architecture with Vault, Boundary, service identity, and mTLS-secured meshes.\n\nEngineer policy-driven automation and compliance using OPA, Kyverno, and secure supply chain configurations.\n\nEstablish IaC and GitOps standards, adding automated testing to every infrastructure change.\n\nPrototype agentic infrastructure components, including deployment and observability platforms in service meshes.\n\nContribute to the Kong AI Gateway, including Dataplane deployments, ACM/SSL integration, and observability via DataDog\n\nChampion DevSecOps maturity by embedding SAST/DAST, chaos engineering, and error budget monitoring.\n\nCollaborate with Security, Data, and AI teams to shape DevOps and AI platform architectures with regulatory compliance.\n\nStay ahead of CNCF and AI ecosystem innovations, from eBPF observability to agent-aware orchestration.\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nWe value diverse backgrounds and paths to expertise. If you bring solid experience in several of the areas below, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every detail.\nCore Expertise\nExperience leading or mentoring engineering teams with the ability to set direction and contribute hands-on.\n\nStrong Kubernetes knowledge, including cluster lifecycle management, API extensions, Operators, Helm, and the broader CNCF ecosystem (Cilium, ExternalDNS, Kyverno, Gatekeeper).\n\nDesigning and operating multi-cluster, multi-region Kubernetes platforms with service meshes such as Istio, Consul, or Linkerd and policy-based workload placement.\n\nWriting Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform on AWS or GCP using modular design, GitOps integration, and automated testing (Terratest, InSpec).\n\nImplementing GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD or FluxCD for progressive delivery, drift correction, and multi-environment releases.\n\nBuilding containerized, serverless, or event-driven systems with strong observability using DataDog, Splunk, or OpenTelemetry.\n\nStrengthening platform security through Vault-based secret management, least privilege access, and compliance automation.\n\nDesigning CI/CD workflows that include SAST, DAST, policy enforcement, and performance telemetry.\n\nImproving reliability and resilience through SLOs, error budgets, and chaos engineering.\n\nWorking knowledge of LLM-based services and AI infrastructure. You don't need to be an ML engineer, but you should be comfortable deploying, securing, and operating AI Gateways and services (e.g. Kong AI Gateway, LangGraph deployments, or similar)\n\nYou’ll Thrive Here If You\nAre passionate about building secure, scalable, and reliable systems and helping others do the same.\n\nHave a strong customer and product mindset.\n\nTake ownership and make thoughtful, data-informed decisions.\n\nEnjoy building high-performing, inclusive, and autonomous teams.\n\nAlign technical leadership with business outcomes.\n\nCollaborate openly and continuously seek to learn and grow.\n\nNice to Have\nThe following are genuinely bonus areas. Great if you have them, but not required.\nLeading platform modernisation or reliability initiatives in scale-up or regulated environments.\n\nExperience with Operator development, CRD automation, eBPF, or Cilium for observability.\n\nExpertise in policy-as-code using OPA or Kyverno within secure supply chain or CSPM frameworks.\n\nFamiliarity with MCP and A2A orchestration patterns in Kubernetes service mesh environments.\n\nUnderstanding of Agent Gateways and Registries connecting microservices and AI agents.\n\nBackground in secure containers, sandboxing, or confidential computing for regulated workloads.\n\nExperience with data-intensive systems such as Spark, Databricks, or Data Mesh.\n\nProgramming experience in Go, Python, or TypeScript.\n\nContributions to open-source or CNCF community projects.\n\nJob Benefits\n> How we work:\nHybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year\n\n£500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space\n\n> Learning & Development:\n$1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development\n\n> Vacation/ Leave:\nHolidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays\n\nAn extra day for your birthday\n\nEnhanced 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.\n\n> Benefits:\nPrivate Health Insurance - we use Bupa!\n\nFull access to Spill Mental Health Support\n\nLife Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries\n\nCycle to Work Scheme\n\nWe know Diversity and Inclusion is 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, and this is an ongoing priority for us. 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, so we welcome applications from everyone, even if you may not think you fit all of the requirements of our roles. 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