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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior DevOps Engineer - **Company:** Elliptic LLC - **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $260,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Application Packaging, Automation of Tests, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Open Source Technology, Cloud Services, Zero Trust Network Access, AI Infrastructure, Datadog, Policy as Code, Circleci, Transport Layer Security, Cloud Platform System, Istio, Delivery Pipeline, Large Language Models, Kubernetes, Linkerd (Service Mesh), Terraform - **Published:** August 6, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=44fecf79e6339d00 ## About the Role * Thrive in a fast-paced environment and feel comfortable with ambiguity * Are passionate about building secure, scalable, and reliable systems * Take ownership and make thoughtful, data-informed decisions * Collaborate openly and enjoy learning from others * Put performance at the heart of how you work and are always looking to do your best work Our ideal candidate has: * Strong, hands-on Kubernetes experience including cluster lifecycle management, API extensions, Operators, Helm, and the broader CNCF ecosystem * Strong Terraform experience; comfortable with complex state management and module design across cloud environments * Designing and operating multi-cluster, multi-region Kubernetes platforms with service meshes such as Istio, Consul, or Linkerd and policy-based workload placement * Implementing GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD or FluxCD for progressive delivery, drift correction, and multi-environment releases * AI fluency: Working knowledge of LLM-based services and AI infrastructure. You don't need to be an ML engineer, but you should be comfortable deploying, securing, and operating AI Gateways and services (e.g. Kong AI Gateway, LangGraph deployments, or similar) Bonus Points for: * Experience with Operator development, CRD automation, eBPF, or Cilium for observability * Policy-as-code using OPA or Kyverno within secure supply chain frameworks * Exposure to AI-driven internal developer platforms or predictive observability using AI/LLMs * Experience with DataDog for observability, dashboards, and monitoring pipeline integrations * Contributions to open-source or CNCF community projects ## Description Elliptic is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team. This is a hands-on technical role, working closely with the DevOps Lead, other DevOps engineers, and engineers across teams to build and run infrastructure that is resilient, secure, and well-automated., As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll bring deep, hands-on Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud expertise to the team. You'll help keep production infrastructure reliable and secure, and you'll work alongside engineers who care about doing this well. You'll be joining a small, high-output team that supports compliance and investigations technology used to trace billions in illicit crypto activity. Current major projects include delivering AI Gateway and supporting LangChain/LangGraph infrastructure for Elliptic's AI products, managing disaster recovery (DR) infrastructure, and administering Kubernetes clusters across multi-region AWS environments., * Engineer, review, and enhance Kubernetes and CNCF-aligned infrastructure day to day * Help operate and improve multi-cluster, multi-region environments using tools like Istio/Linkerd, Cluster API, and Kyverno * Contribute to the DevOps and Platform roadmap, including Kubernetes platform evolution, application packaging and migration to EKS, and enabling engineering teams to ship reliably to production AI Gateway * Contribute to the Kong AI Gateway, including Kubernetes operator setup, Dataplane deployments, ACM/SSL integration, and observability via DataDog Delivery & Automation * Build and maintain progressive delivery pipelines (GitOps-driven, canary, automated releases) using tools like Flux and Flagger * Work with CircleCI for CI pipeline management alongside GitOps tooling * Maintain Infrastructure as Code and GitOps standards, including automated testing for infrastructure changes Security & Compliance * Support Zero Trust practices using tools like Vault, service identity, and mTLS-secured meshes * Build policy-driven automation using tools like OPA or Kyverno * Work with provisioning tools such as Crossplane or ACK for Kubernetes-native cloud integration ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Debugging in the Dark](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1658-debugging-in-the-dark) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Rate-limiting using eBPF and Istio: How to protect your SaaS customers from themselves](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100220-rate-limiting-using-ebpf-and-istio-how-to-protect-your-saas-customers-from-themselves) - [DevOps for AI: running LLMs in production with Kubernetes and KubeFlow](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1222-devops-for-ai-running-llms-in-production-with-kubernetes-and-kubeflow) - [Next-gen CI/CD with Gitops and Progressive Delivery](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1603-next-gen-ci-cd-with-gitops-and-progressive-delivery) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift)