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Platform Engineer

New York city, NY 10175

Posted: 08/03/2026 Employment Type: Contract Job Number: 28994826 Pay Rate: 45-53 USD/Hour

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.

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Lorena Daugherty

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Drew Anson

Chief Delivery Officer

Drew Anson is Chief Delivery Officer at Phaxis, a Workforce Solutions Company based in New York.

In this role, Drew leads the delivery and recruiting working closely with the leadership team to define a model that is efficient at supporting the firm s current needs and is scalable for future growth.

Drew is a seasoned executive with more than 13 years of Services & Recruitment experience. In that time, he has supported numerous Fortune 100/500/1000 organizations across industries by providing global workforce solutions, namely resources and thought leadership for large-scale projects, implementations, and managed services.

Prior to joining Phaxis predecessor firm Park Hudson in 2021, Drew spent three years at engineering technology and talent solutions firm, Collabera, as Director of Sales in North Carolina. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly eight years at Insight Global, most recently as Sales Manager of the Columbus, OH office.

He holds a degree from Central Michigan University in Sales & Marketing.

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