Senior Software Engineer- Search SME

Company: Peraton
Location: Chantilly
Posted on: May 23, 2020

Job Description:

Peraton is looking for a talented Senior Search Engineer SME who will develop enterprise search solutions to solve complex challenges surrounding data analytics and search engines utilizing cloud technologies. This role will require hands-on experience with data analytics, algorithms, large data structures, large-scale datasets, and Real Time search platforms using Elasticsearch. What you'll do

• Responsible for engineering solutions supporting the application platforms.
• Application development to emerging search technologies
• Support and troubleshoot issues from development to production
• Monitor and audit search application performance through load testing, search testing, and/or query response time testing and report activities on an on-going basis
• Analyze unstructured data for ingest
• Design and develop ingest processes
• Design and develops Elasticsearch schema for efficiency
• Design and develop interface for application searches
• Design network architecture for Elasticsearch cluster
• Design network architecture for cluster disaster recovery
• Design and develop incremental update procedures
• Design and develop collection replacement strategy
• Define and configure Elasticsearch index schemas for multiple data elements
• Design and develop search engine monitoring tools
• Lead team to accomplish customer objectives You'd be a great fit if
  • BS degree, with ten (10) years of relevant experience. Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of degree
  • You have 10 years of experience with programming and software development on large enterprise applications
  • You have 10 years of experience with Scripting languages, such as python, used in support of development and production operations
  • You have 3 years of experience using and working with search engine platforms such as, ElasticSearch, Lucene, Endeca, Solr, etc.
  • You have experience providing platforms for large enterprise applications which are used 10s of thousands of users while maintaining 24/7 availability It'd be even better if you
    • Have experience with Unix
    • Have Java development experience
    • Have experience implementing search engine platforms, including builds of indexes (baselines and partial updates), shards, and refined searches across structured, semi-structured and un-structured datasets to include architectural scaling
    • Have experience in architectural design and resource planning for scaling search engine platform capabilities
    • Are knowledgeable of Apache Zookeeper
    • Have experience with automated techniques and processes for bulk indexing of large-scale datasets residing in database or un-indexed systems
    • Are comfortable working on Scrum or other agile development based methodologies
    • Have experience leading development efforts
    • Are comforatable with implementing Java applications using Spring and Spring Boot
    • Have experience implementing Microservices
    • Have experience querying and ingesting large amounts of data into Elasticsearch
    • Have experience troubleshooting search relevance issues
    • Have Hadoop specific experience
    • Are familiar with Entity Resolution technology
    • Have version control experience with SVN or Git
    • Are familiar with architecture, both logical and physical design
    • Have experience with distributed queuing with technologies like Kafka
    • Have experience with AWS What you'll get
      • An immediately-vested 401(K) with employer matching
      • Rapid PTO accrual schedule with floating holidays
      • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
      • Tuition assistance, financing, and refinancing
      • Paid maternity and paternity leave
      • Company-paid infertility treatments
      • Cross-training and professional development opportunities
      • The ability to influence major initiatives *This position requires the candidate to have a current Top Secret security clearance and the ability to obtain a polygraph. Candidate must possess SCI eligibility. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or membership in any other group protected by federal, state, or local law.

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