Search Engineer

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Search Engineer to support, enhance, and modernize our enterprise search platform for a Federal customer. This role is responsible for both software development and operations & maintenance of search applications and indexing pipelines built on Apache Solr, Flume, Spark, Linux, Microsoft SQL Server, and AWS OpenSearch. The engineer will ensure day-to-day reliability of indexing and retrieval services by addressing indexing failures, data issues, search syntax and relevance problems, performance degradation, vulnerability remediation, patching, and recurring maintenance activities. This role also supports bulk indexing operations, synonym refreshes, name normalization, data purges, and SLA restoration for search and retrieval services. In addition to supporting the existing environment, this role will help evolve the platform toward modern search capabilities using AWS OpenSearch, semantic search, vector embedding, hybrid retrieval, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on troubleshooting and operational ownership with practical experience in search engineering, data pipelines, and cloud-based modernization. Key Respo...