Urgent!! Apache Solr Engineer - NYC, NY (Hybrid) - FTE

Hi,

We are constantly on the lookout for professionals to fulfill the staffing needs of our clients, and we currently have a few job openings that may interest you.

However, if you are not interested at this time, feel free to refer this position to someone you may know to be a fit.

Role: Apache Solr Engineer

Location: New York City, New York (Hybrid) - 3 days' work from office

Duration: FTE

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Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement enterprise search solutions using Fusion and SOLR.
• Tune search relevancy and query pipelines to ensure fast and accurate search results.
• Create automated processes for bulk and real-time indexing of large datasets from various sources like databases, Hadoop, and flat files into Solr.
• Design, create, and manage Solr clusters, including shards and collections.
• Identify, research, and resolve complex issues related to Solr, Fusion, and related technologies.
• Work with DevOps/SRE/IT teams to troubleshoot logging issues and build observability into CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications/ Skills

Search Platform administration experience needed in Apache Solr/Lucidworks Fusion platforms.

Lead Apache Solr administration across non-prod and prod environments.

Operate SolrCloud (ZooKeeper, shards, replicas, leader election).

Perform deep Solr JVM tuning (heap/off-heap, threads, caches).

Resolve search performance issues (CPU, latency, throughput, memory leaks).

Optimize high-volume Solr indexing (commit strategies, merge policies).

Enforce Solr security and HA (TLS, RBAC, audits, zero-downtime upgrades).

Install, configure, and support Lucidworks Fusion (on-prem/cloud).

Manage custom Fusion JARs, patches, and vendor-led upgrades.

Build and tune Fusion ingestion/query pipelines

Troubleshoot Fusion/Spark and connector failures.

Design and run Elasticsearch clusters for PoCs and production.

Tune Elasticsearch mappings, shards, JVM, and query DSL.

Secure Elasticsearch using TLS and role-based access control.

Implement observability and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic).

Execute capacity planning, benchmarking, and RCAs for search platforms.

Ideal Candidate

5+ Years of exp , primarily skillset needed by Client is Apache Solr admin profile (Solr installation, Pipelines setup, custom jars deployment, jvm heap optimization, Solr indexing/query search optimization , platform support & stability)

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Thanks.

Regards,

Ashish

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