Platform Engineer

Akkodis is seeking a Platform Engineer for a Contract with a client in Austin, TX. The ideal candidate with experience designing, building, and optimizing scalable search platforms to deliver high-performance search, indexing, and data retrieval capabilities across enterprise environments .

Rate Range: $56/hour to $60/hour; The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.


Platform Engineer Job Responsibilities include:

• Design, build, and optimize enterprise search platforms using Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or Apache Lucene to deliver scalable and high-performance search capabilities.
• Develop and maintain indexing strategies, search relevance models, semantic search, hybrid search, and vector search solutions to improve search accuracy and user experience.
• Implement and support distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and platform services using Kubernetes, Kafka, and modern infrastructure technologies.
• Develop automation, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliable deployment, performance, and operational efficiency of search platforms.
• Collaborate with application, data, and engineering teams to integrate search capabilities into enterprise applications and services.
• Troubleshoot platform issues, optimize system performance, and drive continuous improvements in scalability, reliability, and search effectiveness.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Data Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 6-8 years of experience in Platform Engineering, Search Engineering, DevOps, or Distributed Systems development.
• Strong expertise in Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or Apache Lucene, including search relevance tuning, indexing strategies, semantic search, hybrid search, and vector search implementations.
• Proven experience with Python, Kubernetes, Kafka, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native platform engineering for building scalable, high-performance distributed systems.

If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis, or any questions, feel free to contact me at Deep.Kumar@ akkodisgroup.com.


Pay Details: $56.00 to $60.00 per hour


Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.


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