Elastic Consultant

Summary

Join Elastic as an Elastic Consultant and work closely with customers to deliver technical solutions using the Elastic Stack. You will serve as a trusted advisor, providing technical oversight and knowledge transfer. This role requires strong problem-solving skills and expertise in Elasticsearch and related technologies. You will collaborate with various teams, including engineering, sales, and customer success, to ensure customer satisfaction. The position offers opportunities for professional development and mentorship. Elastic values diversity and offers competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• Strong customer advocacy, relationship building, and communications skills
• Comfortable working remotely in a highly distributed team
• Hands-on experience and an understanding of Elasticsearch or similar distributed datastore technology
• Experience as a Software Engineer, System Administrator, or DevOps Engineer and proficient in at least one programming language
• Excel at working directly with customers to gather, prioritize, plan and execute solutions to customer business requirements as it relates to our technologies
• Understanding and passion for open-source technology and knowledge
• Hands-on experience with large distributed systems from an architecture and development perspective
• Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domain
• Ability and willingness to travel and work remotely with our customers
• Understanding of Linux, Java and databases
• Fluency in German is essential

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of Elastic solutions to drive customer success from our products
• Solution design, development, and integration of Elastic products and services, platform architecture, and capacity planning in mission-critical environments
• Development of demos and proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack
• Data modeling, query development and optimization, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale
• Solving our customers’ most challenging data problems
• Working closely with the Elastic engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature enhancements
• Engaging with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concerns
• Be a mentor/coach for your fellow Elastic consultants

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a technical instructor or public speaker to large audiences on enterprise infrastructure software technology to engineers, developers, and other technical positions
• Experience as a Consultant, deliver and execute on Professional Services engagements
• Deep understanding of Elasticsearch and Lucene
• Elastic Certified Engineer
• Strong knowledge of Java and Linux/Unix environment, software development, and/or experience with distributed systems
• Experience and interest in delivering and/or developing product training
• Experience contributing to an open-source project or documentation
• Experience with Statement of Work delivery and customer journey

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