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. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role:

You will have the opportunity to work with a tremendous services, engineering and sales team and wear many hats.  This is a critical role, as an Elastic Consulting Architect, you have an amazing chance to make an immediate impact on the success of Elastic and our customers.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Deliver Elastic solutions and elastic stack expertise to drive customer business value from our products
• Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and capacity planning in mission-critical environments workshops
• Strong customer advocacy, relationship building, and communications skills
• Comfortable working remotely in a highly distributed team
• Development of demos and proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack and Solutions
• Elastic solutions adaption and acceleration along with data modeling, query development and optimization, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale
• Drive and manage the objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks/milestone, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered optimally and on time while meeting the business objectives
• Working closely ELK engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature enhancements, extensions, and product defects. Facilitate feedback from field back to the product.
• Engaging with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concern

What You Will Bring:

• Minimum 5+ years working as a Consultant on client-facing engagements preferably on Elastic Security (ELK Stack)
• Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or related engineering discipline preferred, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• Experience working to deliver and execute on professional services engagements
• Experience as a public speaker to large audiences on enterprise infrastructure software technology to engineers, developers, and other technical positions
• Hands-on experience and an understanding of Elasticsearch and/or Lucene
• Excel at working directly with customers to capture, prioritize, plan and execute solutions to customer business requirements as it relates to our technologies
• Understanding and passion for open-source technology and knowledge and proficiency in at least one programming language
• Strong hands-on experience with large distributed systems and application infrastructure from an architecture and development perspective
• Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domain
• Understanding and/or certification in one or more of the following technology Kubernetes, Linux, Java and databases, Docker, Amazon Web Service (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud (GCP), Kafka, Redis, VM’s, Lucene
• Occasional travel up to 30%

Bonus Points:

• Big 4 experience
• Elastic Certified Engineer
• Knowledge of Machine Learning and AI
• Security Certifications (CISA, CISSP, CEH, CHFI, GSEC, GMON, ITIL, OSCP, GPYC, GREM)

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

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