Consulting Architect – Security
Elastic
Consulting Architect – Security
Elastic
Searches enterprise data and monitors systems
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.
As a Consulting Architect – Security, you will play a pivotal role in helping our customers realize the value of Elastic’s Security solutions. Acting as a trusted technical advisor, you will work with enterprises to design, deliver, and scale security architectures that strengthen detection, response, and resilience.
You’ll collaborate with Elastic’s Professional Services, Engineering, Product, and Sales teams to accelerate adoption of the Elastic Security platform, ensuring customers maximize the value of their data while improving their security posture. This is a highly impactful role, with opportunities to guide strategy, lead complex implementations, and mentor both customers and teammates.
5+ years as a consultant, architect, or engineer with expertise in security, monitoring, or related domains.
Proven experience deploying Elastic Security (SIEM, endpoint, cloud) or similar solutions (Splunk, QRadar, Arcsight, etc.) at enterprise scale.
Strong experience with data ingestion, parsing, and normalization (Elastic Agents, Beats, Logstash, Kafka, Redis).
Familiarity with threat detection, incident response workflows, and security analytics best practices.
Hands-on expertise with distributed systems, large-scale infrastructure, and public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Ability to design and deliver dashboards, detections, and response workflows that drive actionable insights.
Knowledge of common frameworks and standards (MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS).
Proficiency in Linux and at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Java, PowerShell).
Strong communication and presentation skills, with experience engaging directly with customers.
Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent experience.
Comfortable working in highly distributed teams, both remote and on-site when needed
May require significant travel to customer sites to support engagements and solution implementations; candidates should be comfortable with varying levels of travel based on business needs.
Bonus Points:
Elastic Certified Engineer or deep expertise with Elasticsearch and Lucene.
Big 4 consulting or equivalent professional services experience.
Experience with endpoint security solutions such as Elastic Endpoint Security, EDR, or AV platforms.
Knowledge of DevSecOps, Kubernetes, container security, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
Experience contributing to open-source project or documentation.
Public speaking experience at conferences, meetups, or enterprise workshops.
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.
As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.
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The typical starting salary range for this role is: 133100 - 210600 USD
The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is: 159900 - 252900 USD
Elastic builds search, observability and security software for developers, IT operations teams and security analysts. Elasticsearch indexes enterprise data so applications can retrieve records, while Kibana gives teams dashboards for exploring results and investigating system activity. Customers use the tools to search business information, monitor applications and infrastructure, and investigate threats across their data. Elastic sells managed cloud services and self-managed subscriptions, with resource-based hosted pricing, usage-based serverless pricing and licenses tied to nodes and memory. Founded in 2012, Elastic lists San Francisco, California, as its headquarters.
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