Elastic Consultant - Public Sector

Elastic Elastic · Enterprise · United Kingdom · Consulting - EMEA

This role is for an Elastic Consultant focused on the Public Sector in the UK. The primary responsibilities involve customer advocacy, relationship building, strategic roadmap ownership, and solution design/development using Elastic products. While the company is described as 'The Search AI Company' and mentions AI capabilities, the core of this role is consulting, delivery, and integration of Elastic's platform, not direct AI/ML model development or research. The role requires strong consulting skills, experience with Elasticsearch/Lucene, and UK security clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Strong customer advocacy, relationship building, and communications skills
  2. The ability to easily pivot from delivery to strategic engagements with customers
  3. To work with the wider Elastic organisation to support the customer’s goals, their strategic requirements and their journey with Elastic.
  4. 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.
  5. Solution design, development, and integration of Elastic products and APIs, platform architecture, and capacity planning in mission-critical environments

Skills

Required

  • 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 current UK security clearance, or has previously held security clearance, or is will to undergo security clearance
  • Excel at working directly with customers to gather, prioritise, plan and execute solutions to customer business requirements as it relates to our technologies
  • Hands-on experience with large distributed systems from an architecture and development perspective
  • Understanding of Linux, Java and databases

Nice to have

  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • must be a current holder of Security clearance