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Elastic Elastic Consulting Architect - UK Public Sector 
United Kingdom 
579673231

12.09.2024

Elastic has seen significant growth in its work within the Public Sector over the last few years. This role will focus on delivery but also to lead the stakeholder relationships at the highest levels of Government and to work with them to help align Elastic to their strategic objectives.

Given the opportunity and the organisations that you will be working with, youmustbe a current holder of Security clearance.


What You Will Be Doing

  • Strong customer advocacy, relationship building, and communications skills
  • The ability to easily pivot from delivery to strategic engagements with customers
  • To work with the wider Elastic organisation to support the customer’s goals, their strategic requirements and their journey with Elastic.
  • Ownership of the strategic roadmap with the customer including quarterly strategic sessions with senior and key stakeholders either in one or a number of customers with common goals.
  • Solution design, development, and integration of Elastic products and APIs, platform architecture, and capacity planning in mission-critical environments
  • Comfortable working remotely in a highly distributed team
  • Development of demos and proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack
  • Data modelling, query development and optimisation, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale
  • Solving our customers’ most challenging data problems
  • Working closely with the Elastic engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature enhancements, extensions.
  • Engaging with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concerns

What You Bring

  • Hands-on experience and an understanding of Elasticsearch and/or Lucene
  • Minimum of 2 years’ experience as a Software Engineer, System Administrator, or DevOps Engineer
  • Minimum of 5 years' experience working as a Consultant, working to deliver and execute on professional services engagements
  • Currently holding UK security clearance and/or willingness to undergo screening
  • Experience as a technical instructor or public speaker to large audiences on enterprise infrastructure software technology to engineers, developers, and other technical positions
  • Excel at working directly with customers to gather, prioritise, plan and execute solutions to customer business requirements as it relates to our technologies
  • Understanding and passion for open-source technology and knowledge and proficient in at least one programming language
  • Hands-on experience with large distributed systems from an architecture and development perspective
  • Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domain
  • The nature of the work that you will be doing will require a high percentage of work onsite with customers, and you should be expected to travel as a result of this requirement
  • Understanding of Linux, Java and databases

Bonus Points

  • Deep understanding of Elasticsearch and Lucene, including Elastic Certified Engineer certification
  • BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related engineering discipline
  • Strong knowledge of Java and Linux/Unix environment, software development, and/or experience with distributed systems
  • Experience and interest in delivering and/or developing product training
  • Experience contributing to an open-source project or documentation

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

  • 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 you love
  • Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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The nature of the work that you will be doing will require a high percentage of work onsite with customers, and you should be expected to travel as a result of this requirement