Consulting Architect - Security (Canberra)

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 have the opportunity to work with tremendous Services, Engineering and Sales teams and wear many hats. This is a critical role, as Consultants have an amazing chance to make an immediate impact on the success of Elastic and our customers.

What You Will Be Doing

We are looking for a delivery architect that demonstrates visionary leadership by orchestrating and implementing Elastic solutions, generating customer business value from our products. Grouping responsibilities in the following areas:

Assess and Design

• Analyze and understand customer business pain points and intricate technical challenges
• Gather requirements in complex enterprise customer environments
• Master Elastic solution architectural design on platforms integrating with other enterprise technologies
• Create and build out customer road maps
• Demonstrate technical authority by proficiently articulating complex technical solutions in clear language

Implement and Deliver

• Lead technology workshops that include hands-on mentoring, whiteboarding, and solution development
• Deliver outcome-based solutions
• Lead, hands-on-deploy and seamlessly integrate Elastic products and APIs into intricate platform architectures
• Master data modeling, develop and optimize queries, tune and scale clusters
• Solve customers' most challenging platform, configuration, data and cyber security problems

Grow and Expand

• Orchestrate and implement capacity planning in mission-critical environments
• Perform technical audits, upgrades, platform migrations, and use-case expansion
• Work with and guide customers along their ever-maturing Cyber journey

Influence and Collaborate

• Work closely with Elastic Engineering, Product Management, and Support teams to identify feature enhancements and product defects
• Engage with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks
• Be a mentor/coach for fellow Elastic consultants
• Communicate to a variety of stakeholders up to the C-suite level

What You Bring

• Minimum of 5 years as a Consulting Architect or senior IT functional leadership experience
• History of working as a Consultant delivering professional services engagements
• Strong customer advocacy, relationship-building, presentation and communications skills
• Ability to lead meetings with project owners and C-level stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience of technical leadership throughout project lifecycles
• Solid experience deploying Elastic Security solutions or similar domains
• Knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework and cyber security fundamentals
• Hands-on experience in on-prem systems and/or public/private cloud platforms
• Good understanding of networking, security, containerization, serverless, DevOps and infrastructure automation knowledge
• Experience utilizing programming or scripting languages in a corporate environment
• Understanding of databases
• Ability and willingness to travel from time to time as required
• Comfortable working remotely in a highly distributed team