Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Capacity) - Platform Infrastructure

As a Principal Platform Engineer focused on capacity, you will play a crucial role in managing and optimizing compute resources, ensuring that Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless workloads can scale seamlessly.

You’ll collaborate closely with control plane and cross-functional platform engineering teams, addressing cloud scaling and resource allocation challenges.

Our diverse team spans EMEA and NASA, tackling complexities of building scalable systems, making a meaningful impact on serving customers.

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Collaborate with teams to implement proactive measures that prevent capacity shortages and bottlenecks.
• Implement effective strategies for optimizing resource usage across cloud environments.
• Ensure 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.
• Operate an autoscaling framework that accommodates various customer workloads seamlessly.
• Optimize infrastructure performance across over 60 regions in Elastic Cloud.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement scaling best practices effectively.

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

• Competitive pay
• Health coverage for you and your family
• Flexible locations and schedules
• Generous number of vacation days
• Matching up to $2000 for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave