Consulting Architect - Security (EMEA / Public Sector eligible )

Elastic; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first company

Hybrid work model

Travel up to 60%

Job summary

Elastic Security is a fast-growing arm of Elastic. You will lead hands-on delivery of Security projects from discovery through architecture, partnering with Services, Engineering and Sales teams to implement scalable, secure solutions.

The role is remote-first, with hybrid in practice and travel up to 60% for onsite engagements and customer work, including potential national security screening where required. Elastic sponsors where appropriate.

Qualifications

• Experience leading security project delivery from discovery to architecture and build.
• Ability to design security architectures (SIEM, endpoint, cloud) aligned with customer goals.
• Strong stakeholder management with senior leaders (CISO, SVP).
• Hands-on deployment across mission-critical environments with Elastic Security solutions.

Responsibilities

• Assess customer goals and translate into technical requirements.
• Design Elastic Security architectures and guide security strategy sessions.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of security projects, including deployments and migrations.
• Develop detections, dashboards, and alerting workflows in the Elastic Stack.
• Mentor distributed consultants and support sales through technical engagements.

Skills

Security Architecture

Delivery Leadership

Cloud Security

SIEM/EDR

Data Ingestion

Threat Detection

Automation CI/CD

Elastic Stack

Tools

Elastic Stack

Kafka

Azure Event Hub

AWS S3

Job description

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.

What is The Role

Elastic Security is one of the fastest-growing parts of our business, and our customers (including government and public sector organisations) rely on our Security Solution to modernise their SOC, threat detection, and response capabilities.

You will lead the hands-on delivery of Elastic Security projects (new implementations, migrations, and use-case expansions) from discovery through architecture design and build. Along the way, you'll develop trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and work closely with our Services, Engineering and Sales teams.

Elastic is a remote-first company, but many of the projects you'll deliver might require onsite availability, making the role hybrid in practice, varying by project, with travel of up to 60%.

Some of these engagements, given the organisations involved, also require national security screening or clearance; eligibility to obtain one in your country of employment is a strong advantage, and Elastic will sponsor the process where required.

What You Will Be Doing

Assess and Design

• 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

Implement and Deliver

• 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

Grow and Collaborate

• 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 t