Sr. Platform Engineer Solr & Lucid works Fusion

Location: New York City, NY

Our challenge:

Job Summary

• We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer specializing in Apache Solr and Lucidworks Fusion to design, deploy, optimize, and maintain our enterprise search infrastructure.
• The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in distributed search engines, content ingestion, and custom search application development, enabling our organization to deliver scalable, high-performance search and data discovery solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Solr & Lucidworks Fusion Administration & Management
• Deploy, configure, and manage Solr clusters, ensuring high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Install, configure, and administer Lucidworks Fusion instances across development, staging, and production environments.
• Manage core collections, shards, replicas, data ingestion pipelines, and indexing strategies.
• Tune Solr and Fusion components for optimal search relevance, latency, and throughput.
• Monitor and troubleshoot clustered search environments, resolving performance bottlenecks and cluster failures.
• Implement data security, role-based access controls, encryption, and audit logging within Solr and Fusion.

Qualifications & Experience

• At least 5+ years experience working with Apache Solr, with hands-on experience deploying and managing large-scale Solr clusters.
• Proven experience administering Lucidworks Fusion platform in enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of search engine architectures, relevancy tuning, and data indexing concepts.
• Experience with data ingestion pipelines, connectors, and ETL processes.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or Groovy.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and managed search services is a plus.