Overview
On Site
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
Able to Provide Sponsorship
Skills
Elasticsearch
Elastic search
docker
kubernetes
bash
python
Platform Engineer
Job Details
Job Summary
We are seeking a skilled Platform Engineer with expertise in Elasticsearch to design, deploy, optimize, and maintain our enterprise search and data analytics platforms. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in search engine architectures, data ingestion, and content management systems, ensuring our search solutions are scalable, reliable, and performant to support business-critical applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Deploy, configure, and maintain Elasticsearch clusters, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.
- Develop and enforce best practices for data indexing, sharding, replication, and data lifecycle management.
- Monitor cluster health, perform capacity planning, and optimize search and query performance.
- Manage Elasticsearch security features, including role-based access control (RBAC), encryption, and audit logging.
- Troubleshoot and resolve cluster issues, including node failures, data corruption, or network partitions.
Qualifications & Experience
- At least 5+ years experience working with Elasticsearch
- Hands-on experience with deploying, scaling, and tuning Elasticsearch clusters.
- Strong understanding of search engine architecture, information retrieval, and relevance tuning.
- Proficiency with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or similar.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes) is highly desirable.
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