DevOps Engineer

Elliptic; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the cryptocurrency sector is seeking a DevOps Engineer to enhance their engineering capabilities. The role involves providing senior expertise in DevOps, security, and reliability while fostering a culture of innovation. Ideal candidates will have experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD tools, contributing to the development of cloud-native applications. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Production experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Ability to manage security and reliability in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior DevOps expertise and leadership across Engineering.
• Build compliant and reliable developer platforms.
• Measure and improve developer productivity across the SDLC.

Skills

DevOps

Security

Reliability engineering

Cloud-native applications

Infrastructure-as-Code

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

AWS

GCP

GitlabCI

CircleCI

Github Actions

ArgoCD

FluxCD

Hashicorp Vault

Splunk

DataDog

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You will have a transformative impact across Elliptic 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. Openness is one of our core values at Elliptic, and nowhere is this more evident than in our engineering teams. We strongly encourage engineers to challenge convention and find unique and innovative solutions to our customers' problems.

Key Responsibilities

1. What you will do:
2. Provide senior DevOps expertise and leadership across Engineering at all layers of the stack
3. Evangelise DevOps, security, and reliability engineering across the Engineering team-at-large
4. Provision resilient infrastructure across multiple regions and AZs
5. Build compliant, reliable, and featureful developer platforms centered on container orchestration
6. Enable Continuous Delivery and Deployment capabilities using CICD pipelines and GitOps tooling
7. Enable shifting left on security and testing, and facilitate progressive delivery in production
8. Measure and improve developer productivity and experience across the SDLC
9. Cost optimize infra through rightsizing and creating ephemeral, on-demand environments
10. Proactively monitor for security and reliability using Observability tooling including SIEM, APM, tracing, infrastructure metrics, logs, and dashboards
11. Durably engineer away toil

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

You will be a great fit here if you:

1. Are passionate about DevOps, Security, and Reliability engineering
2. Are passionate about helping engineering teams become high performing teams
3. Are passionate about helping build reliable and performant cloud-native applications
4. Act like an owner in every decision you take
5. Take challenges as opportunities
6. Enable our customers to achieve their mission
7. Are open with success, failure, and learnings
8. Continuously test, learn, and improve

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

Bonus Points for experience with:

• Production experience architecting provisioning and testing strategies for multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments
• Development and testing strategies for Terraform for Production
• Production experience with advanced multi-cluster Service Mesh capabilities on Kubernetes
• Production experience with OSS API Gateways and Ingress controllers
• Distributed Software Architecture exposure in high volume production scenarios
• Working with Data Mesh, BigData technologies such as EMR, Spark, Databricks
• Designing, tracking, and testing to SLOs and Chaos Engineering to Error Budgets
• Implementing Business Continuity (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DRP) plans including tracking RTO and RPO
• CryptoCurrency domain knowledge and infrastructure experience running Currency Daemons, integrating provider APIs

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

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