Platform Engineer (Elasticsearch OR Kafka)

Job Title : Platform Engineer (Elasticsearch OR Kafka)

Location : New York, NY - Hybrid

Mode : Onsite/Hybrid

Note : Please look for candidates who can manage Admin side of Platform. Specially Platform Engineers who has good knowledge about the product.

The client doesn t need any SRE/ Operations /Developers but purely looking for Platform Engineers who manage configure, Authentication, Authorizations, Admin tasks, Product Expansions dynamically based on Volumes.

• Either Solr / Fusion or Elasticsearch

Job summary: We are seeking a skilled Platform Engineer with expertise in Lucidworks Fusion or 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 indexing strategies ensuring reliable, scalable and performant search solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Search Platform Administration.
• Deploy configure and maintain Lucidworks Fusion or Elasticsearch instances
• Monitor platform health, troubleshoot issues, and perform capacity planning.
• Implement and enforce security measures including access controls, encryption, and audit logging.
• Optimize search and query performance through tuning, caching, and pipeline configuration.

Data Ingestion & Integration

• Design data pipelines and connectors to ingest data from various sources into Elasticsearch and Lucidworks.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering and Application teams to support data flow and indexing processes.
• Ensure data consistency, accuracy, and timeliness in search indexes.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum of 7 years experience working with Elasticsearch or Lucidworks Fusion.
• Hands-on experience with deploying, scaling, and tuning Elasticsearch clusters.
• Proven experience with Fusion platform administration, customization, and development.
• 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.