Platform Engineer (Elasticsearch)

  • Queens, NY
  • Posted 1 day ago | Updated 1 hour ago

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
No Travel Required
Unable to Provide Sponsorship

Skills

Elasticsearch

Job Details

Position: Platform Engineer (Elasticsearch)

Location: New York City, NY (Onsite work)

Duration: 12+ Months

 

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.

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