Lead DevOps Engineer

Lead DevOps Engineer 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. We’re looking for a hands-on leader, someone who can balance deep technical expertise with people leadership, operational strategy, and continuous improvement. You will partner closely with Engineering, Security, and Data teams to create a culture of reliability, shared ownership, and constant innovation. The impact you will have: 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. What you will do: - 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. You will be a great fit here if you: - 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 committe ... (truncated, view full listing at source)