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're looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to own and evolve our DevOps practices. You'll lead a team of DevOps engineers while staying close to the technical work, setting direction on infrastructure, automation, and reliability.As 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. Elliptic is building an AI fluent workforce. Across our Product, Engineering, Design and Intelligence we’re going beyond giving everyone the tools. Using AI to transform how we build and work every day to deliver on our market opportunity. This 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.What you will do:Own the DevOps and Platform roadmap, including Kubernetes platform evolution, application packaging and migration to EKS, and enabling engineering teams to ship reliably to production.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.Contribute to the Kong AI Gateway, including Dataplane deployments, ACM/SSL integration, and observability via DataDogChampion 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.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).Building containerized, serverless, or event-driven systems with strong observability using DataDog, Splunk, or OpenTelemetry.Designing CI/CD workflows that include SAST, DAST, policy enforcement, and performance telemetry.Working 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)You’ll Thrive Here If YouAre passionate about building secure, scalable, and reliable systems and helping others do the same.Take ownership and make thoughtful, data-informed decisions.Enjoy building high-performing, inclusive, and autonomous teams.Nice to HaveThe following are genuinely bonus areas. Expertise in policy-as-code using OPA or Kyverno within secure supply chain or CSPM frameworks.Understanding of Agent Gateways and Registries connecting microservices and AI agents.Experience with data-intensive systems such as Spark, Databricks, or Data Mesh.Programming experience in Go, Python, or TypeScript.Contributions to open-source or CNCF community projects.Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year500 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 holidaysAn extra day for your birthdayEnhanced 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 Bupa!Full access to Spill Mental Health SupportLife Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiariesCycle to Work SchemeWe know Diversity and Inclusion is much deeper than just hiring, but it’s important for us to mention it here. We believe our diverse team of individuals underpins this by bringing creative thinking and innovation to Elliptic every day.
Lead DevOps Engineer (AWS) in London employer: Elliptic
At Elliptic, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture. As an Agent Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our internal business systems while working alongside talented professionals who are passionate about transforming processes through AI. We offer a supportive environment that encourages continuous learning and growth, ensuring that you can thrive in your career while contributing to our mission of making crypto markets safer and more efficient.
