Lead DevOps Engineer
EllipticBlockchain Analytics company
London, United KingdomLead
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About the role
TL;DR
Lead DevOps Engineer at Elliptic to own and evolve DevOps practices.
- •As a Lead DevOps Engineer at Elliptic, you will champion DevOps, security, and reliability principles.
- •You'll build a culture of automation, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the DevOps and Platform roadmap, defining the automation, scaling, and multi-tenant Kubernetes-based Internal Developer Platform (IDP).
- •engineer, review, and enhance Kubernetes and CNCF-aligned infrastructure, setting technical standards.
- •Architect multi-cluster, multi-region environments using Istio/Linkerd, Cluster API, and Kyverno.
- •Build progressive delivery frameworks with Flux and Flagger for GitOps-driven, canary, and automated releases.
- •Implement modern provisioning with controllers like Crossplane and ACK for Kubernetes-native cloud integration.
- •Requirements Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams with the ability to set direction and contribute hands-on.
- •Strong Kubernetes knowledge, including cluster lifecycle management, API extensions, Operators, Helm, and the broader CNCF ecosystem.
- •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.
Required skills
KubernetesCI/CDTerraformAWSVaultHelmPrometheusGrafana
Domain expertise
crypto
Tech stack
KubernetesCI/CDTerraformAWSVaultHelmPrometheusGrafana