Join Elastic as a Consulting Architect to help customers leverage the Elastic platform for observability and security solutions.
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Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Translate business and technical requirements into scalable solutions
- Lead customer project delivery from discovery to optimization
- Create proof-of-concepts for Elastic Stack solutions
- Optimize ingestion pipelines for performance and scalability
- Design custom dashboards and alerting in Kibana
Must have
- 5+ years as a consultant, architect, or engineer
- Deep expertise in Search and security domains
- Proven track record of deploying Elastic Search and Observability solutions
- Hands-on expertise with distributed systems and public cloud platforms
- Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language
Nice to have
- Elastic Certified Engineer
- Prior experience in Big 4 or equivalent professional services
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools
- Knowledge of machine learning or AI applied to Search
- Experience with container orchestration
Practical constraints
- Willingness to travel to customer sites as required
Role intensity
30% coding — mostly leadership/strategy
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Consulting Architect at Elastic, the individual will focus on designing and implementing scalable solutions that enhance observability and security for enterprise clients. Key skills include expertise in the Elastic Stack, distributed systems, and cloud platforms, alongside a strong background in search and security domains. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with a consulting or engineering background, particularly those experienced in deploying enterprise-scale solutions. The role involves collaboration across various teams to drive customer success and optimize data utilization.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze November 10, 2026. Last confirmed on Elastic's careers page November 10, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Elastic: India.
- Salary band is below the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$189,308).
- Starts above 3% of 215 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States that list Python we track (median $182,000 across 72 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 52.5% of 570 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States; Natural Language Processing appears in 2.1% of 570 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Consulting Architect - Search role remote?
- Yes — Elastic lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Elastic lists $133,100–$210,600 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Consulting Architect - Search role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Azure, Elastic, Elastic Security, Elastic Stack, GCP.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Elastic targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Consulting Architect - Search role at Elastic.
From the original posting
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?
As a Consulting Architect, you will play a pivotal role in helping customers realize the value of Elastic’s Solutions. While your primary focus will be on observability, you are a versatile expert capable of designing and scaling security architectures to strengthen detection, response, and resilience.
Acting as a trusted technical advisor, you will work with enterprises to improve application performance, infrastructure visibility, and end-user experience, while also improving their overall security posture. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Professional Services, Engineering, Product, and Sales to accelerate adoption of the Elastic platform, ensuring customers maximize the value of their data while achieving critical business outcomes.
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.
- Architecture: Create captivating proof-of-concepts that highlight the value proposition of the Elastic Stack and its solutions. Your expertise will be the driving force behind accelerating the adoption of Elastic solutions, optimizing queries, fine-tuning clusters, and delivering lightning-fast search and analytics at scale.
- 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.
What You Bring
- Professional Expertise: 5+ years as a consultant, architect, or engineer with deep expertise in Search, and a strong capability in security and Observability domains.
- Deployment Experience: Proven track record of deploying Elastic Search, Observability (APM, logs, metrics) and Elastic Security (SIEM, endpoint) or similar enterprise-scale solutions.
- Technical Knowledge:
- Hands-on expertise with distributed systems, Linux, Kubernetes, and public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Deep understanding of E-Commerce search solutions, query development, relevancy tuning, and implementing Natural Language Processing (NLP) use cases.
- A background in open-source machine learning frameworks like PyTorch, backed by a degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Security Literacy: Familiarity with incident response workflows and common frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, or ISO 27001.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Java, or PowerShell).
- Communication: Strong presentation skills with the ability to engage directly with stakeholders and explain complex technical concepts.
- Education: Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Flexibility: Comfort working in highly distributed, remote teams and a willingness to travel to customer sites as required.
Bonus Points
- Elastic Certification: Elastic Certified Engineer or deep expertise with Elasticsearch and Lucene.
- Consulting Background: Prior experience in Big 4 or equivalent professional services environments.
- Modern Tooling: Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible) and container orchestration (ECK).
- Emerging Tech: Knowledge of machine learning or AI as applied to Search, observability and security.
Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.
The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below.
These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.
An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.
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