Elastic Consultant - Public Sector

## Responsibilities - 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 ## Requirements - 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 German security clearance, or has previously held security clearance. - Fluency in German is essential. - 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 ## 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 ## Benefits 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.