Consulting Architect

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.

As a Consulting Architect, you will play a pivotal role in helping customers realize the value of Elastic’s Solutions. While your primary focus will be on observability, you are a versatile expert capable of designing and scaling security architectures to strengthen detection, response, and resilience.

Acting as a trusted technical advisor, you will work with enterprises to improve application performance, infrastructure visibility, and end-user experience, while also improving their overall security posture. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Professional Services, Engineering, Product, and Sales to accelerate adoption of the Elastic platform, ensuring customers maximize the value of their data while achieving critical business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Solution Design & Delivery: Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, outcome-driven solutions built on the Elastic Stack.
• End-to-End Engagement: Lead the delivery of customer projects from discovery and roadmap design through implementation, enablement, and optimization.
• Architecting Observability: Partner with customers to deploy and operationalize solutions for distributed tracing, metrics pipelines, log aggregation, and SLOs/SLIs.
• Architecting Security: Guide customers in SIEM, endpoint, and cloud security use cases to improve threat detection and security analytics.
• Data Engineering: Optimize ingestion pipelines for performance, scalability, and resiliency using Elastic Agents, Beats, Logstash, and stream processing.
• Actionable Insights: Design and implement custom dashboards, visualizations, detection rules, and alerting in Kibana for both observability and security operations.
• Technical Leadership: Provide oversight and knowledge transfer to customers and teammates throughout the project lifecycle.
• Community & Culture: Capture and share best practices and solution patterns, contributing to internal enablement and a culture of continuous learning.

Requirements

• Professional Expertise: 5+ years as a consultant, architect, or engineer with deep expertise in Search, observability & monitoring, and a strong capability in security domains.
• Deployment Experience: Proven track record of deploying Elastic Observability (APM, logs, metrics) and Elastic Security (SIEM, endpoint) or similar enterprise-scale solutions.
• Data Pipeline Mastery: Strong experience with time-series data ingestion, parsing, and normalization (ECS), including the use of Kafka or Redis.
• Infrastructure Knowledge: Hands-on expertise with distributed systems, Linux, Kubernetes, and public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Security Literacy: Familiarity with incident response workflows and common frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, or ISO 27001.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Java, or PowerShell).
• Communication: Strong presentation skills with the ability to engage directly with stakeholders and explain complex technical concepts.
• Education: Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Flexibility: Comfort working in highly distributed, remote teams and a willingness to travel to customer sites as required.

Benefits

• 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