Security Consulting Architect, Elastic Stack Expert

Candidate; United States; Remote; USD 133,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible schedules

Generous vacation days

Volunteer days

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Consulting Architect – Security to help customers realize the value of Elastic’s Security solutions. You will design, deliver, and scale security architectures that strengthen detection, response, and resilience across large enterprises.

You will collaborate with Professional Services, Engineering, Product, and Sales teams to accelerate adoption of Elastic Security, ensuring customers maximize data value while improving security posture.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, outcome-driven solutions built on the Elastic Stack.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of customer engagements — from discovery and design through implementation, enablement, and optimization.
• Partner with customers to architect, deploy, and operationalize Elastic solutions that drive measurable value and adoption.
• Provide technical oversight, guidance, and enablement to customers and teammates throughout project lifecycles.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Support to ensure successful outcomes and continuous improvement.
• Capture and share best practices, lessons learned, and solution patterns across the Elastic Services community.
• Contribute to internal enablement, mentoring, and a culture of continuous learning and collaboration.
• Guide customers in SIEM, endpoint, and cloud security use cases using Elastic Agents, Beats, Logstash, and related technologies.
• Design and implement detection rules, dashboards, visualizations, and alerts for critical security operations.
• Optimize ingestion pipelines for performance, scalability, and resiliency at enterprise scale.

Skills

Security consulting

Solution architecture

Elastic Security

Cloud platforms

SIEM

Data ingestion

Threat detection

Linux

Programming

Education

CS/Engineering/Cybersecurity degree

Tools

Elastic Stack

Beats

Logstash

Kafka

Redis

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Consulting Architect – Security to help customers realize the value of Elastic’s Security solutions. You will design, deliver, and scale security architectures that strengthen detection, response, and resilience across large enterprises.

You will collaborate with Professional Services, Engineering, Product, and Sales teams to accelerate adoption of Elastic Security, ensuring customers maximize data value while improving security posture.