Engineering Manager - DevOps & AI Platform

Do you want to lead the engineering functions that decide how a platform screening over a billion dollars of crypto transactions every week is built and run? Elliptic is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead DevOps and AI Platform functions. You will manage two connected teams at the heart of how Elliptic engineers, keeping a latency-sensitive screening platform dependable, cost-effective and scalable, while building out a centre of excellence for AI agents that product teams across the company depend on.

What you'll do

• Lead, grow and develop roughly twelve engineers across DevOps and AI Platform functions, owning hiring, levelling, coaching and career development
• Set the strategy and operating model for DevOps, including release safety, developer experience, observability, cost and scalability of the screening platform
• Lead the AI Platform function as a centre of excellence, owning shared agent-building frameworks and patterns, MCP management, evaluation frameworks and shared AI infrastructure
• Act as a two-way conduit for the centre of excellence, disseminating best practice to product teams and channelling their feedback back to improve approaches
• Partner with the AI Platform technical lead and senior engineers to shape technical direction, bringing people leadership and delivery capability
• Own the cost, scalability and efficiency of infrastructure as volume grows, bringing a FinOps mindset to infrastructure spend
• Champion SRE and reliability practices across the business, partnering closely with the SRE function
• Support infrastructure and process maturity needed for certifications such as ISO 27001 and SOC2, working with InfoSec

What you bring

• A track record of managing DevOps, platform or infrastructure engineers, including hiring and building a growing team
• An infrastructure background (cloud, IaC, CI/CD, observability) deep enough to make sound strategic calls and guide senior engineers toward the right ones
• Kubernetes literacy grounded in hands-on experience as an engineer, sufficient to reason about the estate and challenge the team's decisions
• Extreme curiosity about AI with budding hands-on experience in AI, agents and evaluations, demonstrated by real engagement with the space and the judgement to grow into leading it
• A strong interest in the nuances of the AI-assisted SDLC, and conviction that tooling alone does not make engineers more potent; adoption, practice and guardrails turn AI access into real leverage
• AI fluency with practical, responsible use of AI in an engineering context and the ability to set team norms for it; you are an active AI promoter who can reason about where AI adds leverage and where it is a liability in a compliance setting
• Leadership through people, measuring your success by the growth and impact of your team, not your own output
• The ability to be credible with senior engineers without being the hands-on expert; you ask the sharp question and facilitate the right decision
• Honesty and pragmatism about timelines and trade-offs, comfortable owning a long-term build-out across two functions
• Care about the mission of providing infrastructure and intelligence that keeps financial institutions safe from crypto crime and sanctions evasion

Nice to have

• Experience leading or building an internal platform, ML platform, developer-experience or enablement function
• Hands-on exposure to agent frameworks, MCP, or building and running evaluation frameworks
• Experience during a company scaling phase
• Exposure to ISO 27001 / SOC2 and what they demand of infrastructure and process
• Experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems in a regulated or financial context

What we offer

• Hybrid working with 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
• $1,000 learning and development budget to use on anything agreed with your manager that contributes to your growth and development
• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, plus an extra day for your birthday
• Private health insurance through Bupa
• Full access to Spill mental health support
• Life assurance covering 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
• Cycle to work scheme

About Elliptic

Elliptic is making crypto safe, secure and scalable, preventing global financial crime, exposing bad actors and protecting the world's financial system as it is being revolutionized. The company screens over a billion dollars of crypto transactions every week and is backed by top-tier investors.