Elastic has seen significant growth in its work within the Public Sector over the last few years. This role will focus on delivery but also to lead the stakeholder relationships at the highest levels of Government and to work with them to help align Elastic to their strategic objectives.

You will have the opportunity to work with a tremendous services, engineering and sales team and wear many hats. This is a critical role, as Consultants have an amazing chance to make an immediate impact on the success of Elastic and our customers.

Given the opportunity and the organisations that you will be working with, you must be a current holder of Security clearance.

What You Will Be Doing:

Strong customer advocacy, relationship building, and communications skills
The ability to easily pivot from delivery to strategic engagements with customers
To work with the wider Elastic organisation to support the customer’s goals, their strategic requirements and their journey with Elastic.
Ownership of the strategic roadmap with the customer including quarterly strategic sessions with senior and key stakeholders either in one or a number of customers with common goals.
Solution design, development, and integration of Elastic products and APIs, platform architecture, and capacity planning in mission-critical environments
Comfortable working remotely in a highly distributed team
Development of demos and proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack
Data modelling, query development and optimisation, 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, extensions.
Engaging with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concerns

What You Bring Along:

Hands-on experience and an understanding of Elasticsearch and/or Lucene
Minimum of 2 years’ experience as a Software Engineer, System Administrator, or DevOps Engineer
Minimum of 5 years' experience working as a Consultant, working to deliver and execute on professional services engagements
Currently holding UK security clearance and/or willingness to undergo screening
Experience as a technical instructor or public speaker to large audiences on enterprise infrastructure software technology to engineers, developers, and other technical positions
Excel at working directly with customers to gather, prioritise, plan and execute solutions to customer business requirements as it relates to our technologies
Understanding and passion for open-source technology and knowledge and proficient in at least one programming language
Hands-on experience with large distributed systems from an architecture and development perspective
Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domain
The nature of the work that you will be doing will require a high percentage of work onsite with customers, and you should be expected to travel as a result of this requirement
Understanding of Linux, Java and databases

Bonus Points:

Deep understanding of Elasticsearch and Lucene, including Elastic Certified Engineer certification
BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related engineering discipline
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

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