Elastic - Consulting Architect
Requirements
• Elastic depth — non-negotiable • We are not looking for someone who will learn Elastic on the job. • 8+ years hands-on with the Elastic Stack, substantially on cluster and platform work rather than dashboarding or pipeline authoring • Shard strategy you can derive, not recite — how you arrived at a shard count and size for a given workload, what you traded off, and what you got wrong the first time • Index and mapping design, and why those choices drive cluster performance • Lifecycle and retention across data tiers, including the cost and latency implications of each • Snapshot, restore and disaster recovery designed and executed, not just configured • Major-version upgrades in production — the sequencing, the breaking changes, the rollback position • More than one deployment model: self-managed plus at least one managed or orchestrated option • Cluster stability and performance troubleshooting — heap and garbage collection, circuit breakers, thread pool rejections, shard allocation, expensive queries • Elastic Certified Engineer, or the demonstrable knowledge to obtain it within your first quarter • Strong Linux and operating system fundamentals, with solid grounding in storage and networking • A working understanding of how infrastructure conditions translate into Elastic symptoms, and how infrastructure choices constrain what a deployment can do • Experience troubleshooting on shared infrastructure, where the cause of your problem is another workload's behaviour and resolving it means engaging the team that owns it • Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People: • 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. • 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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Responsibilities
• Design and build Elasticsearch platforms for customers across self-managed, orchestrated and managed deployments, including air-gapped and regulated environments • Own sizing and capacity planning as a derivation from workload characteristics — ingest rate, document shape, retention, query concurrency, growth — validated by benchmark rather than estimated from a form • Run health checks and remediation on production estates, and redesign sharding, mapping and index strategies where the original design no longer holds • Lead major-version upgrades, snapshot and disaster recovery strategy, and multi-cluster architectures • Diagnose performance problems across the full stack — Elastic, the JVM, the operating system, storage and network — and across adjacent systems in the data path • Work directly with customer architects, platform owners and engineering leadership; run discovery, present designs, and own the technical outcome of an engagement end to end • Build reusable tooling, automation and IP that makes the next engagement faster, including AI-assisted tooling for diagnosis, configuration and reporting • Mentor other consultants and contribute to the GCC's technical practice
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