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Acumenz Consulting · 11 hours ago

Apache Solr Administrator (ELK Stack)

New York, United States

Contract

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

4+ years exp

Acumenz Consulting is seeking a Search Platform Administrator with strong Apache Solr administration experience and ELK stack exposure. The role focuses on Solr platform support across non-prod and prod environments, ensuring performance, reliability, and secure operations.

ConsultingInformation TechnologyIT InfrastructureMobile Apps

Responsibilities

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)

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)

Execute capacity planning, benchmarking, and RCAs for search platforms

Ensure documentation, runbooks, and operational best practices

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

Qualification

Apache Solr administrationSolrCloud operationsJVM tuningLucidworks FusionELK stack administrationTroubleshooting skillsObservability toolingSpark connectors