[Hiring] Consulting Architect @Elastic

Role Description

As a Consulting Architect, you will play a pivotal role in helping customers realize the value of Elastic’s Solutions. Your primary focus will be on observability, while also being capable of designing and scaling security architectures.

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to improve application performance, infrastructure visibility, and end-user experience.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Professional Services, Engineering, Product, and Sales to accelerate adoption of the Elastic platform.

What You Will Be Doing

• 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.

Qualifications

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

Bonus Points

• Elastic Certified Engineer or deep expertise with Elasticsearch and Lucene.
• Prior experience in professional services environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible) and container orchestration (ECK).
• Knowledge of machine learning or AI as applied to observability and security.

Compensation

• Base salary with no variable compensation component.
• Typical starting salary range: $133,100 — $210,600 USD.
• In select locations, an alternate salary range may apply: $159,900 — $252,900 USD.

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.
• Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Financial donation matching up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent).
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects.
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

Additional Information

Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals.