Senior DevOps Engineer, Elliptic

• We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong background in DevOps and extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes, someone who thrives on taking ownership, driving initiatives from concept to delivery, making informed decisions, and proactively improving systems and processes
• Are passionate about DevOps and, Security and Reliability engineering
• Are passionate about helping engineering teams become high performing teams
• Are passionate about helping build reliable and performant cloud-native applications
• Act like an owner in every decision you take
• Take challenges as opportunities
• Enable our customers to achieve their mission
• Are open with success, failure and learnings
• Continuously test, learn and improve
• Are fluent in AI and agentic workflows
• Our ideal candidate has production experience with most of the following:
• Kubernetes container orchestration platform with an understanding of the cluster lifecycle, API, Operator pattern, Helm charts, addons and components from the CNCF landscape
• Writing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform against AWS, GCP considering internal and external modularisation, multi-environment branching strategies, state manipulation, working to multiple versions
• Provisioning cloud infrastructure to AWS, GCP, through Kubernetes controllers such as Crossplane, ACK, KRO
• Building cloud-native container and serverless applications in distributed architectures on Kubernetes and Service Meshes such as Istio, Linkerd, App Mesh
• Writing Helm charts to package and deliver application stacks into production
• Delivering applications and infrastructure continuously using CI/CD tools such as GitlabCI, CircleCI, Github Actions, and GitOps using ArgoCD, FluxCD
• Troubleshooting and debugging applications using Observability tooling across microservices and serverless applications such as Splunk, DataDog
• Managing ephemeral secrets and credentials using Hashicorp Vault
• Managing least privileged access to cloud resources using TPAM solutions such as Hashicorp Boundary
• We are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace, so we welcome applications from everyone, even if you may not think you fit all of the requirements of our roles

Desirable

• You’ll play a key role in shaping our platform strategy, collaborating with talented engineers, and fostering a culture of reliability, security, and efficiency
• You will have a transformative impact across Ellitpic by evangelising DevOps, security, and reliability principles and fostering a culture of efficiency and autonomy. You will join a growing team of experienced and passionate engineers who are not afraid to fail and enjoy tackling difficult problems head-on
• Provide senior DevOps expertise and leadership across Engineering at all layers of the stack
• Evangelise DevOps, security and reliability engineering across the Engineering team-at-large
• Provision resilient infrastructure across multiple regions and AZs
• Build compliant, reliable and featureful developer platforms centered on container orchestration
• Enable Continuous Delivery and Deployment capabilities using CICD pipelines and GitOps tooling
• Enable shifting left on security and testing, and facilitate progressive delivery in production
• Measure and improve developer productivity and experience across the SDLC
• Cost optimise infra through rightsizing and creating ephemeral, on-demand environments
• Proactively monitor for security and reliability using Observability tooling including SIEM, APM, tracing, infrastructure metrics, logs and dashboards
• Durably engineer away toil