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Consulting Architect - Observability

Elastic· Consulting - Global - COE
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Hybrid (India)Full-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior Consulting Architect focused on design and hands-on implementation of Elastic Stack with emphasis on Observability and Search AI for enterprise environments; combines technical depth with senior-level consultative skills and remote/on-site client engagement.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver Elastic solutions and Elastic stack expertise to drive customer value.
  • Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and sizing in workshops.
  • Advocate for customers with strong communication and relationship-building.
  • Work remotely or on-site in a distributed team.
  • End-to-end delivery of Elastic projects and development of proof-of-concepts.
  • Adapt Elastic solutions and accelerate data modeling, query development, and optimization; scale for fast search and analytics.
  • Drive objectives, gather requirements, manage tasks, status, dependencies, and timelines to meet customer objectives.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product management, and support to identify feature improvements and defects.
  • Engage with Sales to scope opportunities and assess technical risks.
  • Mentor team members and learn from them to accelerate skills.

Qualifications

  • Elastic Certification: Required – Active Elastic Observability Engineer certification.
  • Minimum of 7 years as a Consulting Architect or senior IT functional leader.
  • Strong history of delivering professional services engagements in complex enterprise environments.
  • Proven experience deploying Elastic core domain: Enterprise Observability.
  • Experience with fleet and agent installation policies and scalability considerations.
  • Knowledge deploying enterprise observability (Metrics and Logs) at scale (APM, UEM, Infrastructure optimization, Network visibility).
  • Experience leading observability projects at architectural and program levels.
  • Experience with monitoring tools integrated into service management.
  • Deep understanding of distributed architecture (application, database, systems).
  • Hands-on experience with on-prem and/or major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Technical depth in Linux, networking, security, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation.
  • Programming/scripting experience (Python, JavaScript, Go).
  • Strong communication and whiteboarding skills; ability to articulate technical solutions to stakeholders.
  • Experience contributing to open-source projects or documentation.
  • Travel up to 20%.

Skills

Required:Elastic Observability Engineer certificationConsulting and client engagement

Benefits

  • Competitive pay based on work performed.
  • Health coverage for employee and family in many locations.
  • Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
  • Generous vacation days.
  • Donation matching up to $2000 (or local equivalent).
  • Up to 40 hours per year for volunteer projects.
  • Minimum of 16 weeks parental leave.
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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