Consulting Architect - Observability
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Responsibilities
- What You Bring
- Essential Qualifications
- 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%)
- Bonus Points
- Any cloud service provider's - Gen AI certification.
- Additional Elastic Certifications
- Comfortable with Ansibl
Benefits
Additional Information
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale - unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data - securing and protecting private information more effectively - Elastic's complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What is the Role We are seeking an exceptional and highly experienced Senior Consulting Architect to join our Global Capability Center. This senior role is critical to the success of our global customers, focusing on the strategic design and hands-on implementation of the Elastic Stack with focus on Search AI. You will serve as a trusted technical architect and consultant, working with complex enterprise environments to translate business challenges into robust, scalable, and value-driven Elastic solutions. The role requires a blend of deep technical expertise, senior-level consulting acumen, and the ability to work effectively across time zones, with both remote support and required on-site client engagement.
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