devops engineer for AI platforms

Elliptic traces and disrupts illicit cryptocurrency laundering across blockchains. Its platform supports compliance and investigations teams by tracking and screening transactions with 99% market coverage.

• Own the DevOps and Platform roadmap, including Kubernetes platform evolution, application packaging, migration to EKS, and reliable production delivery;
• Lead by doing by engineering, reviewing, and enhancing Kubernetes and CNCF-aligned infrastructure while setting technical standards;
• Architect multi-cluster, multi-region environments using Istio/Linkerd, Cluster API, and Kyverno;
• Build progressive delivery frameworks with Flux and Flagger for GitOps-driven, canary, and automated releases;
• Implement provisioning with Crossplane and ACK for Kubernetes-native cloud integration;
• Define and enforce Zero Trust architecture with Vault, Boundary, service identity, and mTLS-secured meshes;
• Engineer policy-driven automation and compliance using OPA, Kyverno, and secure supply chain configurations;
• Establish IaC and GitOps standards with automated testing for every infrastructure change;
• Prototype agentic infrastructure components, including deployment and observability platforms in service meshes;
• Contribute to the Kong AI Gateway, including Dataplane deployments, ACM/SSL integration, and DataDog observability;
• Champion DevSecOps maturity through SAST/DAST, chaos engineering, and error budget monitoring;
• Collaborate with Security, Data, and AI teams to shape DevOps and AI platform architectures with regulatory compliance;
• Stay current with CNCF and AI ecosystem innovations, including eBPF observability and agent-aware orchestration;
• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers while remaining hands-on.

• Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams, setting direction, and contributing hands-on;
• Strong Kubernetes knowledge, including cluster lifecycle management, API extensions, Operators, Helm, and the broader CNCF ecosystem;
• Experience designing and operating multi-cluster, multi-region Kubernetes platforms with service meshes and policy-based workload placement;
• Experience writing Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform on AWS or GCP using modular design, GitOps integration, and automated testing;
• Experience implementing GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD or FluxCD for progressive delivery, drift correction, and multi-environment releases;
• Experience building containerized, serverless, or event-driven systems with strong observability;
• Experience strengthening platform security through Vault-based secret management, least privilege access, and compliance automation;
• Experience designing CI/CD workflows with SAST, DAST, policy enforcement, and performance telemetry;
• Experience improving reliability and resilience through SLOs, error budgets, and chaos engineering;
• Working knowledge of LLM-based services and AI infrastructure, including deploying, securing, and operating AI Gateways and services;
• Passion for building secure, scalable, and reliable systems and helping others do the same;
• Strong customer and product mindset;
• Ownership and thoughtful, data-informed decision-making;
• Ability to build high-performing, inclusive, and autonomous teams;
• Ability to align technical leadership with business outcomes;
• Open collaboration and continuous learning;
• Nice to have: leading platform modernisation or reliability initiatives in scale-up or regulated environments, Operator development, CRD automation, eBPF, Cilium, policy-as-code with OPA or Kyverno, MCP and A2A orchestration patterns, Agent Gateways and Registries, secure containers, sandboxing, confidential computing, Spark, Databricks, Data Mesh, Go, Python, TypeScript, open-source or CNCF community contributions.

• Hybrid working with the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year;
• £500 Remote working budget for home office equipment;
• $1,000 Learning & Development budget;
• 25 Days of annual leave plus bank holidays;
• An extra day for your birthday;
• Eligible employees receive 16 weeks of fully paid enhanced parental leave;
• Private health insurance through Bupa;
• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support;
• Life Assurance cover equal to 4 times the salary;
• Cycle to Work Scheme.