Lead DevOps Engineer — AI Platform & Kubernetes Leader

Elliptic; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Remote working budget £500

Learning & Development budget £1,000

Holidays 25 days + bank holidays

Birthday day off

Enhanced parental leave

Private Health Insurance (Bupa)

Cycle to Work Scheme

Job summary

Elliptic is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to own and evolve our DevOps practices, leading a team while staying hands-on. You will set direction on infrastructure, automation, and reliability, shaping multi‑region Kubernetes platforms, GitOps, and security‑driven operations across the product and AI initiatives.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive CI/CD, automation, and policy enforcement, and work closely with Security, Data, and AI teams to ensure scalable, compliant cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineering teams with hands-on contribution.
• Strong Kubernetes knowledge including cluster lifecycle, API extensions, and CNCF tools.
• Experience designing and operating multi‑cluster, multi‑region Kubernetes platforms with service meshes.
• Proficient in Terraform on AWS or GCP with GitOps and automated testing.
• Experience with ArgoCD or FluxCD for progressive delivery and multi-environment releases.

Responsibilities

• Own the DevOps and Platform roadmap, incl. Kubernetes evolution and migration to EKS.
• Lead by doing—mentor, review, and set technical standards across the team.
• Architect multi-region environments with Istio/Linkerd and policy-based placements.
• Build CI/CD and progressive delivery with GitOps tooling and automated testing.
• Define and enforce Zero Trust architecture and secure supply chains.

Skills

Team leadership

Kubernetes

Multi-region platforms

GitOps

CI/CD

IaC tooling

Security & compliance

Go/Python/TypeScript

Tools

Terraform

ArgoCD

FluxCD

Crossplane

ACK

Istio/Linkerd

Vault

DataDog/OpenTelemetry

Job description

Elliptic is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to own and evolve our DevOps practices, leading a team while staying hands-on. You will set direction on infrastructure, automation, and reliability, shaping multi‑region Kubernetes platforms, GitOps, and security‑driven operations across the product and AI initiatives.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive CI/CD, automation, and policy enforcement, and work closely with Security, Data, and AI teams to ensure scalable, compliant cloud platforms.