Lead DevOps Engineer, Elliptic

• We’re looking for a hands-on leader, someone who can balance deep technical expertise with people leadership, operational strategy, and continuous improvement
• Have a passion for building reliable, secure, and scalable systems, and leading others to do the same
• Thrive on setting strategy and rolling up your sleeves to implement it
• Are driven by a strong customer and product focus
• Embrace ownership and decision-making in fast-moving environments
• Want to build high-performing, autonomous teams and shape DevOps culture at scale
• Align technical leadership with business outcomes
• Are transparent, collaborative, and committed to learning and improvement
• Platform as Product expertise, defining vision, roadmaps, and user research loops for internal developer platforms (IDPs)
• Deep Kubernetes expertise including full cluster lifecycle management, API extension, custom Operator development, Helm charts, and working across the CNCF ecosystem (addons such as Cilium, ExternalDNS, Kyverno, Gatekeeper)
• Designing and operating multi‑cluster, multi‑region Kubernetes deployments with service meshes (Istio, Consul, Linkerd) and policy‑based workload placement
• Advanced networking — service mesh federation, mTLS at scale, and eBPF/Cilium observability tracing
• Writing Infrastructure‑as‑Code using Terraform against AWS / GCP, with modular architectures, state segmentation, GitOps integration, automated testing (Terratest/InSpec), and controlled version promotion
• Provisioning and governing cloud resources using Kubernetes‑native controllers such as Crossplane, ACK, or KRO, aligning infrastructure and application delivery
• Implementing GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD or FluxCD, enabling progressive delivery, automated drift correction, and multi‑environment deployments
• Building cloud‑native container, serverless, and event‑driven systems grounded in observability and resilience, with tracing, metrics, and logs correlated through DataDog, Splunk, or OpenTelemetry
• Managing platform security through Vault‑based secret management, least‑privilege access with HashiCorp Boundary or AWS IAM policies, and compliance automation
• Establishing robust CI/CD architectures integrating SAST/DAST, policy enforcement, and cost / performance telemetry
• Applying SLOs, error budgets, and chaos engineering to continuously improve reliability and service quality
• Leading DevOps culture initiatives, building self‑service developer platforms, defining golden paths, and coaching teams in platform‑driven delivery

Desirable

• Do you thrive in a fast-paced setting where you can shape DevOps culture, drive automation, and deliver real impact across engineering teams?
• Elliptic is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to define and execute our next-generation platform vision. You will guide a growing team of DevOps engineers to deliver automation, scalability, security, and operational excellence across our multi-site Kubernetes infrastructure
• You will partner closely with Engineering, Security, and Data teams to create a culture of reliability, shared ownership, and constant innovation
• You’ll set the technical and cultural direction for DevOps at Elliptic, aligning our infrastructure strategy with company goals. You’ll scale our engineering platforms globally, evolve our reliability posture, and mentor a skilled team that’s trusted to run high-availability production systems supporting mission-critical workloads
• You’ll be the bridge between executive direction and technical delivery, ensuring our systems are both high-performing today and ready for what’s next
• Own, build, and evolve the DevOps and Platform Engineering roadmap, defining the technical backbone for automation, scaling, and multi‑tenant Kubernetes‑based IDP
• Lead, by doing, engineering, reviewing, and improving Kubernetes and CNCF‑aligned infrastructure daily, setting the technical benchmark for excellence
• Architect and operate multi‑cluster, multi‑region Kubernetes environments using tooling such as Istio/Linkerd (service mesh federation), Cluster API (lifecycle management), and Kyverno (policy as code)
• Design and deploy progressive delivery frameworks with Flux and Flagger for GitOps‑driven releases, canary and A/B deployments, and automated rollout health‑checks
• Implement modern infrastructure provisioning via controllers such as Crossplane and ACK for Kubernetes‑native integration between cloud infrastructure and application delivery
• Define and enforce Zero Trust architecture, implementing network and identity hardening through HashiCorp Vault (secrets management), Boundary (access broker), service identity, and secure service mesh mTLS
• Engineer policy‑driven automation and compliance frameworks, leveraging OPA, Kyverno, and secure supply chain and runtime configurations
• Develop and maintain IaC and GitOps standards and introduce automated testing for every infrastructure change
• Prototype and integrate agentic infrastructure components, including Agentic deployment and observability platforms within Kubernetes service meshes
• Design and integrate AI Gateways and Registries that route traffic and events between microservices and autonomous agents through CNCF Gateway API constructs
• Champion DevSecOps maturity and experimentation, embedding SAST/DAST, chaos engineering, and error budget tracking to drive continuous improvement
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Security, Data, and AI engineering to shape the intersection of DevOps and agentic AI platform architectures for high‑integrity, regulatory‑compliant operations
• Continuously research and adopt emerging CNCF and AI ecosystem advancements, from eBPF observability to agent‑aware orchestration, to keep Elliptic at the forefront of DevOps innovation