Consulting Architect - Observability
Elastic · Posted Sep 11
Search, observability, security, and analytics platform services
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About the role
Elastic, the Search AI Company, builds the Elastic Search AI Platform used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, bringing together search precision and AI intelligence across structured and unstructured data for search, security, and observability. The professional services team is seeking an exceptional and highly experienced Senior Consulting Architect to join its Global Capability Center, focusing on the strategic design and hands-on implementation of the Elastic Stack with a focus on Search AI. You will act as a trusted technical architect and consultant in complex enterprise environments, translating business challenges into robust, scalable, value-driven Elastic solutions with a mix of remote support and required on-site client engagement.
What you will do
- As a member of our professional services team you will 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. You will apply your soft skills to advocate for your customers, build relationships and exhibit strong communications skills. Comfortability working remotely or on-site in a highly distributed team. Your activities will include end-to-end delivery of ground-breaking Elastic projects to our customers, as well as development of proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack and its solutions. Other topics will include 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.
- Daily tasks include driving and handling the objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered optimally and on time while meeting and exceeding the customer objectives. Your goal is to make your customers love Elastic and achieve amazing value from the platform!
- Work across teams with engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature improvements, extensions, and product defects. Facilitate feedback from the field back to the product. Engage with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concerns. Be a mentor to your team members, while also learning from them to accelerate your skills
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Elastic Certification: Required – Active Elastic Observability Engineer certification is mandatory.
- Minimum of 7 years as a Consulting Architect or senior IT functional leadership experience
- Consulting History: A strong history of working as a Consultant delivering professional services engagements in complex enterprise environments.
- Domain Expertise: Proven experience in deploying solutions using Elastic core domain: Enterprise Observability.
- Fleet and agent installation policies, and scalability considerations.
- Knowledge in deploying enterprise observability (Metrics and Logs) solutions at scale (Application performance monitoring (APM), User experience monitoring (UEM), Infrastructure optimization, Network visibility and monitoring).
- Experience leading observability projects at both the architectural and program level.
- Experience working with monitoring tools that integrate into service management.
- Deep understanding of distributed architecture including application, database and systems.
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with on-prem systems and/or major public/private cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Technical Depth: Hands-on experience in Linux, networking, security, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation.
- Programming/Scripting: Experience utilizing programming or scripting languages in a corporate environment (e.g., Python, Javascript, Go).
- Communication: 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.
- Travel: Ability and willingness to travel to client sites periodically as required for project success (up to 20%)
Preferred qualifications
- Any cloud service provider's - Gen AI certification.
- Additional Elastic Certifications
- Comfortable with Ansible, JavaScript, Terraform
- 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.
- Experience contributing to an open-source project or documentation.
Benefits and support
- 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
About Elastic
Elastic is a search AI company that builds self-managed and SaaS offerings for search, logging, security, observability, and analytics. Powered by the Elasticsearch platform, the company helps thousands of organizations worldwide transform massive volumes of data into actionable insights and real-time answers. Its modern search solutions are widely integrated across enterprise tech ecosystems to support advanced AI applications and automated security workloads.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 5001-10000 employees
- Founded
- 2012
- Location
- Mountain View, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $162M raised
- 2012-11-01Series A$10M
- 2013-03-01Series B$24M
- 2014-06-05Series C$70M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Chief Financial Officer
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