Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Elastic — Ireland

About The Role

Join our team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on capacity and platform infrastructure. In this role, you will manage and optimize our compute resources, ensuring seamless scaling of our Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless workloads. You will collaborate closely with our control plane and cross-functional platform engineering teams, addressing real-world challenges of cloud scaling and resource allocation. Your responsibilities will include assessing current and future capacity requirements, implementing strategies for optimizing resource usage, analyzing capacity metrics, and operating an autoscaling framework. Enjoy benefits such as fully paid health coverage, flexible location and schedule, generous vacation days, parental leave, volunteer time off, and charitable donation matching.

Assess current and future capacity requirements based on workload demands to ensure seamless scaling of resources. Develop and maintain accurate capacity models that predict resource needs and align with business objectives.
Implement effective strategies for optimizing resource usage across our cloud environments. Ensure that compute resources are utilized efficiently to enhance performance and support seamless scalability.
Analyze capacity metrics and trends to guide effective resource allocation decisions. Develop insightful reporting tools that provide clear visibility into capacity and performance, helping to optimize our compute resources.

Solid software and platform engineering background
5+ years with cloud infrastructure and capacity management
Proficiency with incident investigation and troubleshooting processes
Understanding of cloud scaling challenges and solutions
Knowledge of performance monitoring and optimization techniques
Experience with compute auto-scaling processes and capacity reservations across the three major CSPs
Worked with the three major cloud service providers and navigated compute capacity scaling issues