Consulting Architect

Elastic

1d • $133,100 - $252,900 • Remote

About The Position

As a Consulting Architect at Elastic, you will help customers realize the value of Elastic’s solutions. The role primarily focuses on observability, while also applying expertise in security architecture to strengthen detection, response, and resilience. You will act as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise customers, helping improve application performance, infrastructure visibility, end-user experience, and security posture.

You will work cross-functionally with Professional Services, Engineering, Product, and Sales to accelerate adoption of the Elastic platform and help customers maximize the value of their data and achieve business outcomes. The role involves leading customer engagements from discovery and roadmap design through implementation, enablement, and optimization, while providing technical oversight and knowledge transfer.

The position is within a distributed company and involves flexibility to work with remote teams and travel to customer sites as required. Compensation is base salary, with no variable compensation component. The role is also currently eligible for Elastic’s stock program.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as a consultant, architect, or engineer, with deep expertise in Search and observability and monitoring, and strong capability in security domains.
• Proven experience 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 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 frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, or ISO 27001.
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language, such as Python, Java, or PowerShell.
• Strong presentation skills and ability to engage 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 willingness to travel to customer sites as required.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, outcome-driven solutions built on the Elastic Stack.
• Lead customer projects from discovery and roadmap design through implementation, enablement, and optimization.
• Partner with customers to deploy and operationalize distributed tracing, metrics pipelines, log aggregation, and SLOs/SLIs.
• Guide customers in SIEM, endpoint, and cloud security use cases to improve threat detection and security analytics.
• Optimize data ingestion pipelines for performance, scalability, and resiliency using Elastic Agents, Beats, Logstash, and stream processing.
• Design and implement custom dashboards, visualizations, detection rules, and alerting in Kibana for observability and security operations.
• Provide technical oversight and knowledge transfer to customers and teammates throughout project lifecycles.
• Capture and share best practices and solution patterns, contributing to internal enablement and continuous learning.
• Collaborate with Professional Services, Engineering, Product, and Sales to accelerate customer adoption and outcomes.

Benefits

• Company-matched 401(k), with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
• Stock program eligibility.
• Health coverage for employees and their families in many locations.
• Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Matching of up to $2,000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year for volunteer projects.
• At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
• Competitive pay based on the work performed, not previous salary.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior