Senior DevOps Engineer

Elliptic is the leader in digital asset decisioning, we have built the most comprehensive platform for efficiently extracting crypto data and intelligence across blockchains with the greatest accuracy. Our platform’s unrivalled uptime, scalability, depth and breadth of our data and intelligence means exacting organizations choose Elliptic for their compliance, risk management, intelligence operations and blockchain infrastructure needs. Founded in 2013, Elliptic is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Washington D.C., Miami, San Francisco, UAE, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo. To learn more, visit www.elliptic.co http://www.elliptic.co and follow us on LinkedIn https://uk.linkedin.com/company/ellipticco and X https://x.com/elliptic?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor. Do you want to run the infrastructure that helps trace $21.8B+ of illicit crypto activity across blockchains? 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. The impact you will have: As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll bring deep, hands-on Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud expertise to the team. You'll help keep production infrastructure reliable and secure, and you'll 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. What you will do: 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 You will be a great fit here if you: - Thrive in a fast-paced environment and feel comfortable with ambiguity - Are 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 Our ideal candidate has: - 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…