Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Capacity) - Platform Infrastructure

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What is The Role As a Principal Platform Engineer focused on capacity, you will play a crucial role in managing and optimizing our compute resources, ensuring that our Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless workloads can scale seamlessly. You’ll collaborate closely with our control plane and cross-functional platform engineering teams, addressing the real-world challenges of cloud scaling and resource allocation. Our diverse team spans EMEA and NASA, and together we tackle the complexities of building scalable systems, making a meaningful impact on how we serve our customers. What You Will Be Doing 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 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