# Elastic Consultant - Public Sector

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: Germany
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Elastic Consultant - Public Sector

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.

You will be working as an Elastic Consultant in the Public Sector, focusing on delivery and leading stakeholder relationships at the highest levels of Government. You will work with a tremendous services, engineering, and sales team and wear many hats.

**Responsibilities**

- Strong customer advocacy, relationship building, and communications skills

- Ability to pivot from delivery to strategic engagements with customers

- Work with the wider Elastic organisation to support customer goals, strategic requirements, and their journey with Elastic

- Ownership of the strategic roadmap with the customer, including quarterly strategic sessions with senior and key stakeholders

- Solution design, development, and integration of Elastic products and APIs, platform architecture, and capacity planning in mission-critical environments

- Comfortable working remotely in a highly distributed team

- Development of demos and proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack

- Data modelling, query development and optimisation, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale

- Solving customers' most challenging data problems

- Working closely with Elastic engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature enhancements, extensions

- Engaging with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concerns

**Requirements**

- Hands-on experience and understanding of Elasticsearch and/or Lucene

- Minimum of 2 years' experience as a Software Engineer, System Administrator, or DevOps Engineer

- Minimum of 5 years' experience working as a Consultant, delivering and executing on professional services engagements

- Current German security clearance, or previously held security clearance

- Fluency in German is essential

- Experience as a technical instructor or public speaker to large audiences on enterprise infrastructure software technology

- Excel at working directly with customers to gather, prioritise, plan, and execute solutions to customer business requirements

- Understanding and passion for open-source technology and knowledge, and proficient in at least one programming language

- Hands-on experience with large distributed systems from an architecture and development perspective

- Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domain

**Benefits**

- Competitive pay

- Health coverage for you and your family

- Flexible locations and schedules

- Generous number of vacation days

- Increase your impact

- Matching up to $2000 for financial donations and service

- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects

- Parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- Elasticsearch
- Lucene
- Software Engineering
- System Administration
- DevOps Engineering
- Consulting
- German language
- open-source technology
- programming languages
- distributed systems
- information retrieval
- analytics

### Nice to have
- Elastic Certified Engineer certification
- BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related engineering discipline
- Java
- Linux/Unix environment
- software development
- delivering and/or developing product training
- contributing to an open-source project or documentation

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