Description
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.
We are seeking an exceptional and highly experienced Senior Consulting Architect to join our Global Capability Center. This senior role is critical to the success of our global customers, focusing on the strategic design and hands-on implementation of the Elastic Stack with focus on Search AI.
As a member of our professional services team, you will deliver Elastic solutions and Elastic stack expertise to drive customer business value from our products. You will work with clients to facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and sizing in workshops. Your activities will include end-to-end delivery of ground-breaking Elastic projects to our customers, as well as development of proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack and its solutions.
Your goal is to make your customers love Elastic and achieve amazing value from the platform! You will work across teams with engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature improvements, extensions, and product defects.
Essential Qualifications:
- Elastic Certification: Required – Active Elastic Observability Engineer certification is mandatory.
- Minimum of 7 years as a Consulting Architect or senior IT functional leadership experience
- Consulting History: A strong history of working as a Consultant delivering professional services engagements in complex enterprise environments.
- Domain Expertise: Proven experience in deploying solutions using Elastic core domain: Enterprise Observability.
- Fleet and agent installation policies, and scalability considerations.
- Knowledge in deploying enterprise observability (Metrics and Logs) solutions at scale (Application performance monitoring (APM), User experience monitoring (UEM), Infrastructure optimization, Network visibility and monitoring).
- Experience leading observability projects at both the architectural and program level.
- Experience working with monitoring tools that integrate into service management.
- Deep understanding of distributed architecture including application, database and systems.
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with on-prem systems and/or major public/private cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Technical Depth: Hands-on experience in Linux, networking, security, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation.
- Programming/Scripting: Experience utilizing programming or scripting languages in a corporate environment (e.g., Python, Javascript, Go).
- Communication: Exceptional customer advocacy, relationship-building, and soft skills including whiteboarding and driving architectural conversations.
Bonus Points:
- Any cloud service provider's - Gen AI certification.
- Additional Elastic Certifications
- Comfortable with Ansible, JavaScript, Terraform
- Experience working closely with a pre-sales organization in scoping customer needs and delivering against a Statement of Work (SOW).
- Experience as a technical instructor or public speaker on enterprise infrastructure software.
We Take Care of Our People:
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Generous number of vacation days each year
- Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave