Consulting Architect - Security

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. 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. Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

We are seeking an exceptional and highly experienced 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. You will serve as a trusted technical architect and consultant, working with complex enterprise environments to translate business challenges into robust, scalable, and value-driven Elastic solutions. The role requires a blend of deep technical expertise, senior-level consulting acumen, and the ability to work effectively across time zones, with both remote support and required on-site client engagement.

• Deliver Elastic solutions and Elastic stack expertise to drive customer business value from our products.
• Work with clients to facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and sizing in workshops.
• Advocate for customers, build relationships, and exhibit strong communications skills.
• Work remotely or on-site in a highly distributed team.
• Deliver end-to-end Elastic projects, including proof-of-concepts.
• Handle data modeling, query development and optimization, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale.
• Drive objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks, status, dependencies, and timelines to ensure engagements are delivered optimally and on time.
• Work across teams with engineering, product management, and support to identify feature improvements and product defects.
• Engage with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks.
• Mentor team members while learning from them.

• Active Elastic Certified Engineer certification is mandatory.
• Minimum of 7 years as a Consulting Architect or senior IT functional leadership experience.
• Strong history of working as a Consultant delivering professional services engagements in complex enterprise environments.
• Proven experience in deploying solutions using Elastic core domain: Enterprise Security / SIEM / SOAR.
• Experience in solving complex technical search problems in terms of relevancy, scaling, performance fine-tuning, building a platform to handle high query throughputs and indexing throughput, benchmarking clusters.
• Experience in leading and delivering Enterprise Security projects at both the architectural and program level.
• Hands-on experience deploying Elastic Security solutions or similar tools (Splunk, Arcsight, IBM QRadar). Alternatively, at least 2 years experience working as a Security Analyst, preferably utilising SIEM or endpoint security applications in a Threat Detection and Response focussed role.
• Deep understanding of distributed architecture including application, database and systems.
• Hands-on experience with on-prem systems and/or major public/private cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Hands-on experience in Linux, networking, security, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation.
• Experience utilizing programming or scripting languages in a corporate environment (e.g., Python, Javascript, Go).
• Exceptional customer advocacy, relationship-building, and soft skills including whiteboarding and driving architectural conversations.
• Proven ability to lead and articulate technical solutions to stakeholders.
• Experience contributing to an open-source project or documentation.
• Ability and willingness to travel to client sites periodically as required for project success (up to 20%).

• Any cloud service provider's Gen AI certification.
• Additional Elastic Certifications (e.g., Elastic Certified Analyst, Specializations) and/or specialization in machine learning, data analytics.
• Information Security and Cybersecurity certifications.
• Knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• 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.

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. We strive to have parity of benefits across regions. 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. 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. Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer.