Senior Platform SRE: Multi-Cloud Reliability & Resilience

Elastic; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and family

Flexible location & schedule

Generous vacation days

16+ weeks parental leave

Volunteer time

Charitable giving matched

Job summary

Elastic is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer within the Platform Engineering team to design, build, and scale a multi-cloud platform that hosts Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless. You will automate system engineering tasks to guarantee global reliability and participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations.

You will work with Golang, Kubernetes, and IaC tools to extend tooling, monitor performance, and improve incident response across distributed teams and environments.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating SaaS platforms in public cloud environments.
• Strong programming skills in Golang or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes across multiple clouds.
• Expertise in alerting and major incident management practices.
• Familiarity with IaC tooling (Terraform, Crossplane) and containerized services.

Responsibilities

• Lead automation to guarantee reliability of Elastic infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call rotations with follow-the-sun coverage.
• Respond to incidents, perform root cause analyses and implement durable fixes.
• Design and scale multi-cloud platform components for Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless.
• Collaborate across distributed teams to elevate reliability and performance.

Skills

Golang

Kubernetes

Terraform

Crossplane

Linux

Public cloud

Incident management

Alerting

On-call

Distributed teams

Tools

Elastic Stack

Prometheus

Graphite

Influx

Docker

Job description

Elastic is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer within the Platform Engineering team to design, build, and scale a multi-cloud platform that hosts Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless. You will automate system engineering tasks to guarantee global reliability and participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations.

You will work with Golang, Kubernetes, and IaC tools to extend tooling, monitor performance, and improve incident response across distributed teams and environments.