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Principal Consulting Architect - Observability/Security - ANZ

Elastic· Consulting - APJ
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Hybrid (ANZ)Full-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Delivery-focused consulting architect role for Elastic in ANZ, combining advisory, design, implementation, and collaboration with engineering, product, and sales to deliver Elastic observability and security solutions for enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

  • Assess and Design: Thoroughly analyze and understand customer business pain points and intricate technical challenges; Gather requirements in complex enterprise customer environments; Master Elastic solution architectural design on platforms integrating with other enterprise technologies; Create and build out customer road maps; Demonstrate technical authority by articulating complex technical solutions clearly and persuasively.
  • Implement and Deliver: Orchestrate and implement capacity planning in mission-critical environments; Perform technical audits, upgrades, platform migrations, and use-case expansion; Work with and guide customers along their Observability journey
  • Influence and Collaborate: Work closely with Elastic Engineering, Product Management, and Support to identify feature enhancements and defects; Engage with Elastic Sales to scope opportunities and assess technical risks; Be a mentor/coach for fellow consultants; Communicate to stakeholders up to C-suite

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 5 years as a Consulting Architect or senior IT functional leadership experience
  • History of working as a Consultant delivering professional services engagements
  • Strong customer advocacy, relationship-building, presentation and communications skills
  • Ability to lead meetings with project owners and C-level stakeholders
  • Ability to articulate business value of outcome-based delivery while being technically savvy and hands-on
  • Demonstrated experience of technical leadership throughout project lifecycles
  • Solid experience deploying Elastic Observability solutions or similar domains (Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Sentinel, Grafana Labs)
  • Hands-on experience in on-prem systems and/or public/private cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, Openstack
  • Hands-on experience in Linux
  • Good understanding of networking, security, containerization, serverless, DevOps in system landscapes and infrastructure automation knowledge
  • Experience utilising programming or scripting languages in a corporate environment like Python, Javascript, Go or Chef/Puppet etc.
  • Understanding of databases
  • Ability and willingness to travel from time to time as required
  • Comfortable working remotely in a highly distributed team

Skills

Required:Architectural design and solution articulationObservability deploymentCloud platformsLinuxNetworking/SecurityCommunication
Nice to have:Programming/Scripting

Benefits

  • 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
  • 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
  • Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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