Solr Cloud Backend Engineer with Security Clearance

About

Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS) has been a leading enterprise Content Services Platform (eCSP) to Federal, Civilian and DoD agencies, and has an opening for a Solr Cloud Backend Engineer.

Responsibilities

The Solr Cloud Backend Engineer serves as responsible for the design, development, and support of custom code and open-source components that power the Solr Cloud search engine. The Java-based code includes spring boot java services, parsers, query parsers, publisher, consistency check, APIs, monitoring utilities, and XSLT transforms. The candidate will work with state-of-the‑art technologies including Solr Cloud, Lucene, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Linux, Groovy, Python, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Dev Sec Ops , Jenkins, Maven, Git Lab, Nexus, Ansible, TDD, BDD, JMeter, and other open-source frameworks.

Skills & Qualifications (Required)

• 7+ years of experience as a backend engineer working with the Solr Cloud search engine on enterprise-scale information retrieval systems.
• Hands‑on experience integrating custom Java applications with Solr Cloud, along with practical experience using the Spring or Spring Boot framework.
• Strong background indexing high-volume content and metadata into Solr Cloud.
• Experience building and maintaining custom query parsers and request handlers using Lucene APIs.
• Solid experience developing REST services and Java-based search API layers with SolrJ.
• Expertise in query optimization, caching, and relevance tuning.
• Practical experience designing and maintaining schemas, including custom analyzers and tokenizers.
• Skilled in troubleshooting multi‑tier systems on Linux, profiling Java applications, and tuning the JVM.
• Experience creating custom parsers for structured and unstructured content using core Java, regular expressions, and NLP.
• Strong XML skills, including JAXP parsing and XSLT/XPath for indexing workflows.
• Experience using templating engines and dynamic languages to decorate search results and extend Java APIs, such as Groovy, Scala, or Python.
• Monitoring experience with Prometheus and Grafana.
• Dev Ops experience with Git or Git Lab, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, and Nexus.
• Experience with TDD or BDD, test automation, and performance testing.
• Experience working in Agile teams, including Scrum or Kanban.
• Strong written documentation skills.
• Public Trust.

Education

A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.

Benefits

• 15 days paid time off per year
• 11 paid holidays per year
• Medical, Dental & Vision
• 401(k) Plan with matching
• Tuition assistance
• Disability insurance
• Referral Bonuses