Principal Cloud Capacity & Autoscaling Engineer

Elastic; Ireland; On-site; EUR 98,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible schedules

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer focused on capacity to help manage and optimize compute resources across Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless workloads. You will collaborate with control plane and platform teams to tackle cloud scaling and resource allocation at scale.

The role emphasizes capacity modeling, proactive capacity planning, and implementing autoscaling strategies across 60+ regions, with a strong software/engineering background and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• 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 the three major CSPs.
• Solid software and platform engineering background.
• Worked with the three major cloud service providers and navigated compute capacity scaling issues.

Responsibilities

• Assess current and future capacity requirements 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 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.
• 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.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Capacity management

Performance monitoring

Cloud scaling

Incident investigation

Auto-scaling

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer focused on capacity to help manage and optimize compute resources across Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless workloads. You will collaborate with control plane and platform teams to tackle cloud scaling and resource allocation at scale.

The role emphasizes capacity modeling, proactive capacity planning, and implementing autoscaling strategies across 60+ regions, with a strong software/engineering background and cross-functional collaboration.