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[/company/trident-consulting](/company/trident-consulting)[Trident Consulting](/company/trident-consulting)
# Senior Search Platform Engineer at Trident Consulting

Compensation

$60/hr

**Location**
: Sunnyvale, California

**Type**
: Contract

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Oct 2, 2026

## Description

Trident Consulting is seeking a Senior Search Platform Engineer for a one-year contract with extension for a Cognizant/Apple client in Sunnyvale, California. The onsite role pays $60 per hour and focuses on architecting, administering, and optimizing large-scale Elasticsearch/OpenSearch environments across AWS and GCP, with Java and Python debugging, distributed systems, Terraform, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring expertise.

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