Apache Solr Admin

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: Apache Solr Administrator (ELK Stack)

Location: NYC NY Onsite

Duration: 12 months with possible extensions or CTH options.

Role Summary: Were seeking a Search Platform Administrator with strong Apache Solr administration experience (primary) and ELK stack exposure (secondary/optional). The role focuses on Solr platform support across non-prod and prod environments and ElasticSearch PoCs ensuring performance reliability and secure operations.

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)

4 5 years of 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.

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience.

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