Department: Engineering

Location: London, UK

Description
The impact you will have: 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
What you will do:

• Evangelise DevOps, security and reliability engineering across the Engineering team-at-large

• Provision resilient infrastructure across multiple regions and AZs

• Build a reliable and featureful platform for developers leveraging Container Orchestration Platforms.

• Build an IDP and measure and improve developer productivity and experience across the SDLC

• Support Continuous Delivery and Deployment capabilities using CICD pipelines and GitOps tooling

• Enable shifting left on security and testing

• Develop the service mesh to offer advanced security and progressive delivery features

• Cost optimise infra through rightsizing and creating ephemeral envs

• Work with developers to improve the security, reliability and performance of their applications

• Proactively monitor for security and reliability using Observability tooling including Security Signals, APM, tracing and infrastructure metrics and logs

• Durably engineer away toil

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
You will be a great fit here if you:

• Are passionate about DevOps and, Security and Reliability engineering

• Are passionate about helping engineering teams become high performing teams

• Are passionate about helping build reliable and performant cloud-native applications

• Act like an owner in every decision you take

• Take challenges as opportunities

• Enable our customers to achieve their mission

• Are open with success, failure and learnings

• 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 API, Operator pattern, Helm charts and releases

• Writing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, considering internal and external modularisation, multi-environment branching strategies, state manipulation, working to multiple versions

• Building cloud-native and serverless applications in a distributed architecture on Kubernetes and Service Mesh

• Delivering applications and infrastructure continuously using CI/CD tools such as CircleCI

• Troubleshooting and debugging applications using APM metrics and tracing across microservices and serverless applications

• Designing, tracking and testing to SLOs

Bonus Points for experience with:

• Development and testing strategies for Kubernetes

• Development and testing strategies for Terraform

• Production experience with advanced Service Mesh capabilities

• Production experience developing Kubernetes Operators

• Production experience with OSS API Gateways and Ingress controllers

• Chaos Engineering to SLOs and Error Budgets

• Hashistack including Vault, Boundary

• 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

• Software Engineering using a high level language

Job Benefits
> How we work:

• Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year

• £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space

> Learning & Development:

• $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development

> Vacation/ Leave:

• Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays

• An extra day for your birthday

• Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave and leave.

> Benefits:

• Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!

• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support

• Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries

• £100 cryptocurrency for you!

• Cycle to Work Scheme