- Company: Elastic
- Location: United Kingdom
- Job type: Full-time
- Salary: Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
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About the role
Elastic is looking for a proactive systems thinker to join the Platform Engineering Productivity team. You will operate the CI, CD, and Release infrastructure, ensuring developers can deploy changes safely and at scale. In an era of rapid AI evolution, this role focuses on securing the supply chain and identifying challenges before they become critical issues. You will energize the engineering organization by making it faster and more secure to ship code.
Responsibilities
- Define the roadmap and technical vision for CI/CD, driving org-wide adoption from problem identification to implementation.
- Proactively identify bottlenecks, friction points, or security risks in the pipeline and drive remediation without waiting for assignment.
- Design and enforce release gates for supply chain integrity and artifact provenance that scale without hindering engineering velocity.
- Direct engineers through complex, multi-quarter projects by breaking down architecture, assigning work, and owning the final outcome.
- Serve as Incident Commander for high-severity supply chain or release incidents, using each event to drive structural improvements.
- Raise the engineering bar through code reviews, mentorship, and setting standards that others adopt voluntarily.
- Remain hands-on by reviewing code, prototyping approaches, and debugging production issues, while leveraging the work of others for primary impact.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in CI/CD and hardening release pipelines against supply chain attacks.
- Strong debugging instincts across the full pipeline stack, from test runners to cluster deployments.
- Hands-on experience with CI infrastructure (such as Buildkite or GitHub Actions), GitOps/ArgoCD, and Kubernetes.
- Experience using AI to accelerate work and understanding its impact on supply chain security.
- A track record of multi-quarter, cross-org ownership where you identified problems and drove change in teams that did not report to you.
- Judgment to push back on prescribed plans when necessary and credibility to align on better approaches.
- Experience directing the work of other engineers toward specific outcomes.
Pay and benefits
- Competitive pay based on the work performed, not previous salary.
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Generous number of vacation days each year.
- Matching of up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours each year for volunteer projects.
- Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.
How to apply
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