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Consulting Architect - Security (EMEA / Public Sector eligible )
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid
Experience
Senior · 5+ years
Job description
Lead hands-on delivery of Elastic Security projects, from discovery and architecture design through implementation, for customers including government and public sector organisations. The role combines consulting, SIEM/EDR migration and detection engineering work.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Languages
- English – fluent, local market language – fluent
What you'll do
- Analyse customer goals, pain points, existing architecture, and threat landscape, translating them into technical requirements
- Design Elastic Security solution architectures (SIEM, endpoint, cloud security) that integrate with the customer's wider security ecosystem
- Advise on the customer's security strategy and own the Elastic side of it, aligning recommendations through regular sessions with senior and key stakeholders
- Lead hands-on delivery of Elastic Security projects end-to-end, including greenfield deployments and migrations from legacy SIEM/EDR platforms in mission-critical environments
- Deploy and secure the Elastic platform: cluster architecture, RBAC and role mapping, single sign-on, private connectivity (private links, VPC peering), and hardening for enterprise and government environments
- Architect and build large-scale data ingestion with Elastic Agent, Beats, and Logstash, normalising data to ECS and integrating sources such as Kafka, Azure Event Hub, and AWS S3
- Develop security content aligned to the customer's threat landscape: detection rules, dashboards, and alerting workflows
- Drive security migrations from competing platforms, applying deep knowledge of Elastic's capabilities to translate each use case into its best form, whether through feature parity mapping or full redesign
- Establish detection-as-code practices for customers managing detections programmatically: developing, testing, versioning, and deploying detection content with Python, Git, and CI/CD pipelines
- Apply and enable Elastic's Agentic AI capabilities (AI Assistant, Attack Discovery, agent-driven workflows) to accelerate customers' detection and response
- Identify and deliver new security use cases as customers mature their cyber defence journey with Elastic
- Deliver engagements on time and within the agreed Statement of Work (SOW) scope, surfacing opportunities for follow-on work
- Communicate confidently with stakeholders from SOC engineers up to CISO / C-suite level
- Partner with Elastic Sales and pre-sales to assess technical risks and shape opportunities
- Feed field insight back to Elastic Engineering, Product Management, and Support to drive feature enhancements
- Mentor and share knowledge with fellow Elastic consultants across a highly distributed team
- Lead or assist with demos and proof-of-concepts that showcase the value of the Elastic Stack, and deliver enablement sessions and hands-on workshops that make customer teams self-sufficient
What we're looking for
- Minimum of 5 years' experience as a Consulting Architect, Senior Consultant, or in a senior IT technical leadership role, delivering and executing professional services engagements, ideally in the security domain
- Solid experience deploying Elastic Security or comparable SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk, MS Sentinel, QRadar, ArcSight) and/or EDR platforms (e.g., CrowdStrike, MS Defender), or at least 2 years as a Security Analyst / Detection Engineer in a threat detection and response role
- An architect's view of the security ecosystem across varied customer environments: SOAR, vulnerability management, penetration testing, ticketing, and security policies, and how they connect in a SOC
- Scripting skills, ideally in Python, and exposure to modern delivery practices such as Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD are strongly preferred
- Hands-on experience with Linux and Windows operating systems, and on-prem and/or public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Strong customer advocacy, relationship-building, and communication skills, with the ability to pivot easily between delivery and strategic engagements
- Eligibility to obtain national security clearance in your country of employment (screening sponsored by Elastic where required)
- Willingness to travel and work onsite with customers (up to 60% of the time), combined with comfort working remotely in a highly distributed team
- Strong proficiency in both English (our company-wide operating language) and the local market language
Nice to have
- Experience with advanced Elasticsearch operations: cluster architecture, shard management, data ingestion, and data tiering at scale
- Experience with detection-as-code: authoring, testing, and versioning detection content managed in Git
- Experience automating deployments and lifecycle management with Python, Terraform, and CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitLab pipelines)
- Experience deploying and operating containerised workloads on Kubernetes, cloud-managed or self-hosted (EKS, AKS, GKE, OpenShift)
- Experience with Agentic AI and LLM-based security workflows: AI assistants, automated triage, and agent-driven investigation
- Experience as a Tier-2/Tier-3 SOC Analyst, Threat Hunter, or DevSecOps Engineer
- Experience in large distributed environments or MSSPs, from architecture through deployment
- Experience delivering enablement sessions, technical workshops, or product training to technical audiences
- Elastic Certified Engineer certification, or security certifications such as GIAC or CISSP
Your team
Elastic Security
One of the fastest-growing parts of Elastic's business, delivering the Security Solution to customers including government and public sector organisations
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
- Increase your impact - 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
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
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About Elastic
The Search AI Company
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.
Mission
Enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people.
Key facts
- Search AI / software
- The Elastic Search AI Platform is used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500
- Elastic is a remote-first company
- Elastic Security is one of the fastest-growing parts of the business
What they value
- Diversity drives our identity
- Balance great work with great life
- We need you for what you can do
- Taking care of our people is the right thing to do