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Senior DevOps Engineer — Kubernetes

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Elliptic

London, United Kingdom

Full Time Posted: May 29, 2026
Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer — Kubernetes — London, United Kingdom — Hybrid — Not Specified

Senior DevOps Engineer, Elliptic London, United Kingdom,Senior DevOps Engineer @ Elliptic,Senior DevOps Engineer @ Elliptic

Location: London, United Kingdom

Work model: Hybrid

Time zone: Not specified

Work authorization: Not specified

AOB Job Summary

Elliptic provides blockchain intelligence solutions that help compliance teams, investigators, regulators, and financial institutions monitor and analyze digital asset activity across blockchain networks. The company’s infrastructure supports large-scale transaction screening, investigations, and risk management operations. 

This Senior DevOps Engineer role focuses on building and operating resilient cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, observability frameworks, and security-focused engineering practices. Working across engineering teams, the position contributes to platform reliability, developer productivity, cloud-native architecture, and blockchain infrastructure roles while supporting scalable systems that process high-volume data and mission-critical workloads.

Relevant for organizations building a web3 engineering team focused on infrastructure, platform reliability, and cloud operations.

Responsibilities

🔹 Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level DevOps expertise and technical leadership across engineering teams.

• Promote DevOps, security, and reliability engineering best practices throughout the organization.

• Provision and maintain resilient infrastructure across multiple cloud regions and availability zones.

• Build compliant and reliable developer platforms centered around Kubernetes container orchestration.

• Enable continuous delivery and deployment through CI/CD pipelines and GitOps methodologies.

• Support security-first development practices, automated testing, and progressive production deployments.

• Measure and improve developer productivity and software delivery lifecycle efficiency.

• Optimize infrastructure costs through rightsizing and on-demand environment provisioning.

• Implement monitoring, observability, security, and reliability capabilities using metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards, SIEM, and APM solutions.

• Reduce operational overhead through automation and long-term platform improvements.

Suitable for companies developing a web3 talent acquisition strategy around platform engineering and cloud infrastructure expertise.

Requirements

• Strong experience in DevOps, security engineering, and reliability engineering.

• Production experience with Kubernetes, including cluster lifecycle management, APIs, Operators, Helm, add-ons, and CNCF ecosystem components.

• Infrastructure-as-Code expertise using Terraform across AWS and GCP environments.

• Experience provisioning cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes-based provisioning frameworks such as Crossplane, ACK, or KRO.

• Experience building cloud-native containerized and serverless applications in distributed Kubernetes environments.

• Knowledge of service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, or App Mesh.

• Experience developing and maintaining Helm charts for production deployments.

• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and GitOps platforms such as ArgoCD or FluxCD.

• Experience troubleshooting distributed systems using observability tools including Splunk, Datadog, logging platforms, and tracing solutions.

• Experience managing secrets and credentials using HashiCorp Vault.

• Experience implementing least-privilege access controls using tools such as HashiCorp Boundary.

• Strong ownership mindset with a focus on reliability, performance, and operational excellence.

Bonus Points

• Experience designing provisioning and testing strategies for multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.

• Experience building Terraform testing and validation frameworks for production infrastructure.

• Advanced service mesh implementation experience across Kubernetes environments.

• Experience developing Kubernetes Operators.

• Experience with open-source API gateways and ingress controllers.

• Software engineering experience using Go, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

• Exposure to distributed software architecture in high-volume production systems.

• Experience with Data Mesh architectures and technologies such as EMR, Spark, or Databricks.

• Experience designing, measuring, and testing Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Error Budgets, and Chaos Engineering practices.

• Experience implementing Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP), including RTO and RPO management.

• Cryptocurrency infrastructure experience, including running blockchain nodes, currency daemons, or integrating provider APIs.

Relevant for professionals exploring remote web3 jobs focused on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes operations, and platform engineering.

Compensation & Benefits

• Hybrid working model.

• Work-from-almost-anywhere flexibility for up to 90 days annually.

• £500 remote working budget for home office setup.

• $1,000 annual Learning & Development budget.

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.

• Additional birthday leave day.

• Enhanced parental leave with 16 weeks fully paid leave for eligible employees.

• Private health insurance through Vitality.

• Access to Spill Mental Health Support.

• Life assurance coverage equal to four times salary.

• £100 cryptocurrency benefit.

• Cycle to Work Scheme.

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