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ElasticConsulting Architect - Security/SIEM (Canberra)
This full-time, on-site Consulting Architect role focuses on Elastic Security and SIEM delivery. The title places the role in Canberra. The posting describes a delivery architect…
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This full-time, on-site Consulting Architect role focuses on Elastic Security and SIEM delivery. The title places the role in Canberra. The posting describes a delivery architect who designs and implements Elastic solutions and turns them into business value for customers in complex enterprise environments. The job covers three areas. The first is assessing customers' business and technical problems, gathering requirements, and building roadmaps. The second is delivering outcome-based solutions through…
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This full-time, on-site Consulting Architect role focuses on Elastic Security and SIEM delivery. The title places the role in Canberra. The posting describes a delivery architect who designs and implements Elastic solutions and turns them into business value for customers in complex enterprise environments.
The job covers three areas. The first is assessing customers' business and technical problems, gathering requirements, and building roadmaps. The second is delivering outcome-based solutions through workshops and hands-on deployment, covering data ingestion setup, dashboards, alert rules, and cluster tuning for quick search. The third is expanding customer use through health reviews, version upgrades, platform moves, capacity planning, and guidance on the customer's cyber maturity path.
The consultant would also work with Elastic engineering, product, and support teams, scope opportunities with the sales team, mentor other consultants, and speak to stakeholders up to C-suite level. The posting makes a current Australian security clearance at NV1 minimum mandatory. Workshops, hands-on mentoring, and whiteboard sessions are part of the delivery approach. The posting describes the role as one where consultants take on many roles at once. Mentoring fellow consultants is also expected.
Responsibilities
- Analyze customers' business pain points and technical challenges and gather requirements
- Design Elastic solutions that integrate with other enterprise platforms and build customer roadmaps
- Lead technology workshops with hands-on mentoring and solution development
- Roll out and connect Elastic products and APIs, covering data ingestion setup, dashboards, and alert rules
- Run health reviews, version upgrades, platform moves, and new use-case rollouts
- Guide customers through their cyber maturity journey
- Mentor fellow consultants and present to stakeholders up to C-suite level
Requirements
- At least five years working as a consulting architect or in senior IT leadership
- Solid experience deploying Elastic Security or similar SIEM tools such as Splunk, ArcSight, or IBM QRadar, or at least two years as a security analyst in threat detection and response
- Current Australian security clearance at NV1 minimum
- History of professional services consulting engagements
- Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK and how it guides enterprise defense
- Hands-on experience with on-premises systems and/or AWS, Azure, GCP, or OpenStack, and with Linux
- Working understanding of networking, security, containers, serverless, DevOps, and infrastructure automation
- Scripting or coding skill in languages like Python, JavaScript, Go, and configuration tools such as Chef or Puppet
- Willingness to travel and to work regularly on customer sites
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related information security or cybersecurity field
- Security certifications and targeted training in infosec or cyber
- Strong grasp of Elasticsearch and Lucene, with Elastic Certified Engineer status as an asset
- Experience working with pre-sales teams to scope customer needs and with statements of work
- Comfort working in both Agile and Waterfall delivery models
- Experience contributing to open-source projects or documentation
Core Skills
Benefits
- Pay set by the role itself rather than by past earnings
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations
- Flexible scheduling options for many roles
- Generous annual vacation allowance
- Match of up to $2,000 for financial donations and service, plus up to 40 volunteer hours per year
- Parental leave of at least 16 weeks
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The posting asks for at least five years as a consulting architect, experience with SIEM tools, and a current Australian security clearance at NV1 minimum.
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