Senior DevOps Engineer

About the role

Elliptic is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team. This is a hands-on technical role, working closely with the DevOps Lead, other DevOps engineers, and engineers across teams to build and run infrastructure that is resilient, secure, and well-automated. You'll help keep production infrastructure reliable and secure, and work alongside engineers who care about doing this well. You'll be joining a small, high-output team that supports compliance and investigations technology used to trace billions in illicit crypto activity.

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.

Responsibilities

• Kubernetes Platform & Infrastructure: Engineer, review, and enhance Kubernetes and CNCF-aligned infrastructure day to day. Help operate and improve multi-cluster, multi-region environments using tools like Istio/Linkerd, Cluster API, and Kyverno. Contribute to the DevOps and Platform roadmap, including Kubernetes platform evolution, application packaging and migration to EKS, and enabling engineering teams to ship reliably to production.
• AI Gateway: Contribute to the Kong AI Gateway, including Kubernetes operator setup, Dataplane deployments, ACM/SSL integration, and observability via DataDog.
• Delivery & Automation: Build and maintain progressive delivery pipelines (GitOps-driven, canary, automated releases) using tools like Flux and Flagger. Work with CircleCI for CI pipeline management alongside GitOps tooling. Maintain Infrastructure as Code and GitOps standards, including automated testing for infrastructure changes.
• Security & Compliance: Support Zero Trust practices using tools like Vault, service identity, and mTLS-secured meshes. Build policy-driven automation using tools like OPA or Kyverno. Work with provisioning tools such as Crossplane or ACK for Kubernetes-native cloud integration.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with Security, Data, and AI teams on DevOps and platform decisions.

Requirements

• Thrive in a fast-paced environment and feel comfortable with ambiguity.
• Passionate about building secure, scalable, and reliable systems.
• Take ownership and make thoughtful, data-informed decisions.
• Collaborate openly and enjoy learning from others.
• Put performance at the heart of how you work and are always looking to do your best work.

Qualifications

• Strong, hands-on Kubernetes experience including cluster lifecycle management, API extensions, Operators, Helm, and the broader CNCF ecosystem.
• Strong Terraform experience; comfortable with complex state management and module design across cloud environments.
• Designing and operating multi-cluster, multi-region Kubernetes platforms with service meshes such as Istio, Consul, or Linkerd and policy-based workload placement.
• Implementing GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD or FluxCD for progressive delivery, drift correction, and multi-environment releases.
• AI fluency: 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).

Skills

• Bonus Points For:
  • Experience with Operator development, CRD automation, eBPF, or Cilium for observability.
  • Policy-as-code using OPA or Kyverno within secure supply chain frameworks.
  • Exposure to AI-driven internal developer platforms or predictive observability using AI/LLMs.
  • Experience with DataDog for observability, dashboards, and monitoring pipeline integrations.
  • Contributions to open-source or CNCF community projects.

Benefits

• Hybrid working: The option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year.
• Remote Work Budget: $650 budget to set up your home office space.
• Learning & Development: $1,000 annual Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development.
• Vacation / Leave:
  • 25 days of annual leave + 8 US Public Holidays.
  • Birthday Leave: An extra day off for your birthday.
  • Enhanced Parental Leave: 16 weeks fully-paid leave for eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption.
• Healthcare: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage through a range of providers (including Tufts, Kaiser, Aetna, UHC, and Blue Shield of CA) with generous premium contributions for you and your dependents.
• 401k: Company match included.
• Mental Health: Full access to Spill mental health support.