Principal Consulting Architect - Observability (Canberra)

The role

You will orchestrate and implement Elastic solutions to generate customer business value. This role involves assessing customer needs, designing architectures, and leading technical implementations and teams.

What you will do

• Analyze customer business pain points and technical challenges
• Gather requirements in complex enterprise environments
• Design Elastic solution architectures on integrated platforms
• Create and build customer road maps
• Lead and provide oversight on multiple concurrent projects
• Direct Architects and Engineers on their projects
• Lead technology workshops including hands-on mentoring and whiteboarding
• Deploy and integrate Elastic products and APIs into platform architectures
• Perform technical audits, upgrades, and platform migrations
• Engage with Sales teams to scope opportunities and assess technical risks

Required qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years as a Consulting Architect, Principal 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

Nice to have

• BS or Master in Computer Science
• Current security clearance
• Certifications and specialization in IT Ops, Infrastructure, APM, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Infrastructure
• Deep understanding of Elasticsearch and Lucene, including Elastic Certified Engineer certification
• Experience working closely with a pre-sales organization in scoping the needs of Customers
• Experience with Statement of Work delivery
• Experience with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Experience contributing to an open-source project or documentation
• Experience as a Software Engineer, System Administrator, or DevOps Engineer
• Hands-on experience with large distributed systems from an architecture and development perspective

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
• Match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

About the company

Elastic is the Search AI Company that enables users to find answers in real time using all their data at scale. The Elastic Search AI Platform is used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500.