Job Title: Platform Engineer (Elasticsearch)
Location: NYC, NY - Hybrid
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 8 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.