Job Description
Role Summary
We’re seeking a Search Platform Engineer with strong Apache Solr experience (primary) and ELK stack. The role focuses on Solr platform support across non-prod and prod environments and ElasticSearch PoCs, ensuring performance, reliability, and secure operations.
Key Responsibilities
Apache Solr (Primary)
- Lead Solr administration across non-prod and prod environments.
- Operate SolrCloud (ZooKeeper, shards, replicas, leader election).
- Perform deep JVM tuning (heap/off-heap, GC, threads, caches).
- Diagnose and resolve search performance issues (CPU, GC, latency, throughput, memory leaks).
- Optimize high-volume indexing (commit strategies, merge policies).
- Enforce security and HA (TLS, RBAC, audits, zero-downtime upgrades).
ELK Stack (Secondary)
- Design and run Elasticsearch clusters for PoCs and production.
- Tune mappings, shards, JVM, and query DSL.
- Secure Elasticsearch using TLS and role-based access control.
- Implement observability and alerting (e.G., Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic).
- Platform Operations
- Execute capacity planning, benchmarking, and RCAs for search platforms.
- Ensure documentation, runbooks, and operational best practices.
Lucidworks Fusion (Preferred)
- Install, configure, and support Fusion (on-prem/cloud).
- Manage custom Fusion JARs, patches, and vendor-led upgrades.
- Build and tune ingestion and query pipelines.
- Troubleshoot Fusion/Spark and connector failures.
Required Skills (Must-Have)
- hands-on Apache Solr administration experience.
- Deep expertise with SolrCloud operations and JVM tuning.
- Strong troubleshooting skills for performance, indexing, and query optimization.
- Solid understanding of TLS, RBAC, HA, and zero-downtime upgrades.
- Experience supporting Lucidworks Fusion (installation, pipelines, upgrades).
- Secondary/Optional Skills (Good to Have)
- ELK stack administration: Elasticsearch (PoCs & production), Logstash/Kibana exposure.
- Observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic.
- Spark connectors and ingestion pipeline tuning.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | New York city, NY |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $45 |
| Company Size | 50 to 99 employees |
| Year Founded | 2002 |
| Website | https://phaxis.com/ |
About Company
We stand for PERSEVERANCE, as we refuse to quit when the journey gets tough. Your gold is our mission, and we search day and night to find it.
Skills
- Access Controlunmatched
- Administrative Skillsunmatched
- Apacheunmatched
- Benchmarkingunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Business Operationsunmatched
- CPU (Central Processing Unit)unmatched
- Capacity Managementunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- DSL (Digital Subscriber Line)unmatched
- Data Partitioningunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Elasticsearchunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Javaunmatched
- Machine Toolunmatched
- Memory Leaksunmatched
- Operations Security (OPSEC)unmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Production Systemsunmatched
- Query Optimizationunmatched
- SOLRunmatched
- SSL-TLS (Secure Socket Layer - Transport Layer Security)unmatched
- Software Patchesunmatched
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