Platform Engineering Lead — CI/CD & Secure Release

Elastic; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and family

Flexible location and schedule

Generous vacation days

16+ weeks parental leave

Volunteer hours (40 hours/year)

Charitable matching up to 1500 USD

Job summary

Elastic seeks a proactive Platform Engineering leader to own the CI/CD roadmap and release infrastructure. You will guide multi-quarter initiatives, define architecture for scalable pipelines, and enforce security-centric gates across teams.

You will work hands-on when needed, review code, prototype approaches, and mentor engineers, while driving alignment across squads and ensuring engineering velocity remains high.

Qualifications

• Hands-on with CI infrastructure and release pipelines.
• Deep expertise in CI/CD and securing supply chains.
• Experience directing engineers toward measurable outcomes.
• Ability to design scalable release gates and policy enforcement.

Responsibilities

• Define roadmap and technical vision for CI/CD across the org.
• Identify bottlenecks, friction, or security risks and drive remediation.
• Lead engineers on multi-quarter programs and break down architecture into executable work.
• Serve as Incident Commander for high-severity supply chain or release incidents.
• Produce high-quality documentation for systems, processes and architectural decisions.

Skills

CI/CD

CI infrastructure

GitHub Actions

Buildkite

GitOps

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

Release security

Debugging

Technical leadership

Tools

Buildkite

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

Job description

Elastic seeks a proactive Platform Engineering leader to own the CI/CD roadmap and release infrastructure. You will guide multi-quarter initiatives, define architecture for scalable pipelines, and enforce security-centric gates across teams.

You will work hands-on when needed, review code, prototype approaches, and mentor engineers, while driving alignment across squads and ensuring engineering velocity remains high.