Senior Platform SRE: Observability, Infra & On-Call

Elastic; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and family

Flexible location and schedule

Generous vacation days

Parental leave 16+ weeks

Volunteer hours 40 per year

Charitable matching up to USD 1500

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Senior SRE/Platform Engineer to own end-to-end delivery of complex projects on the observability platform. You will help harden Elastic Cloud infrastructure as code and contribute to reliable, secure production systems across multiple regions.

You will mentor engineers, review production changes, and continuously improve runbooks, docs, and operational processes to reduce on-call load while supporting 24/7 reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, platform engineering, or infra.
• Strong Python skills; Go is a plus.
• Experience carrying 24/7 on-call and writing RCAs.
• Proficient with Terraform and large multi-workspace configs.
• Deep Linux knowledge and production container ops.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of moderate-to-high complexity projects with minimal direction.
• Run and harden Elastic Cloud infrastructure as code (Terraform, Python, Go).
• Review code and designs, acting as trusted reviewer for production changes.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and surface risks and improvements.
• Improve runbooks, docs, and operational processes to reduce on-call load.

Skills

SRE/Platform

Python

Go

Terraform

Linux

Kubernetes

GitOps

On-call

Security-minded

Code review

Tools

ArgoCD

Helm

Vault

Kubernetes

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Senior SRE/Platform Engineer to own end-to-end delivery of complex projects on the observability platform. You will help harden Elastic Cloud infrastructure as code and contribute to reliable, secure production systems across multiple regions.

You will mentor engineers, review production changes, and continuously improve runbooks, docs, and operational processes to reduce on-call load while supporting 24/7 reliability.