Elastic Consultant - Public Sector · Elastic

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:43:03 GMT
Engineering

Elastic · United Kingdom · remote

We are seeking an Elastic Consultant to join our team in the Public Sector. As a consultant, you will work with customers to deliver and execute on professional services engagements. 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.

Strong customer advocacy, relationship building, and communications skills are essential for this role. You will need to be able to easily pivot from delivery to strategic engagements with customers. You will work with the wider Elastic organisation to support the customer's goals, their strategic requirements, and their journey with Elastic.

Responsibilities:

Strong customer advocacy, relationship building, and communications skills

Ability to easily pivot from delivery to strategic engagements with customers

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

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 UK security clearance, or has previously held security clearance, or is willing to undergo security clearance

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

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 minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.