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)