Hello,
We have what I think is a great opening at Sematext. Ideal candidate would be in New York, but that's not an absolute must. More info below + on http://sematext.com/about/jobs.html in job-ad-speak, but I'd be happy to describe what we are looking for, what we do, and what types of companies we work with in regular-human-speak off-line. DESCRIPTION Sematext is hiring a technical, hands-onProfessional Services Lead to join, lead, and grow the Professional Services side of Sematext and potentially grow into the Head role. REQUIREMENTS * Experience working with Solr or Elasticsearch * Plan and coordinate customer engagements from business and technical perspective * Identify customer pain points, needs, and success criteria at the onset of each engagement * Provide expert-level consulting and support services and strive to be a trustworthy advisor to a wide range of customers * Resolve complex search issues involving Solr or Elasticsearch * Identify opportunities to provide customers with additional value through our products or services * Communicate high-value use cases and customer feedback to our Product teams * Participate in open source community by contributing bug fixes, improvements, answering questions, etc. EXPERIENCE * BS or higher in Engineering or Computer Science preferred * 2 or more years of IT Consulting and/or Professional Services experience required * Exposure to other related open source projects (Hadoop, Nutch, Kafka, Storm, Mahout, etc.) a plus * Experience with other commercial and open source search technologies a plus * Enterprise Search, eCommerce, and/or Business Intelligence experience a plus * Experience working in a startup a plus Otis -- Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/