diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/search/ElasticSearchService.java b/server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/search/ElasticSearchService.java
index 9e9e5abd2..02c5df725 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/search/ElasticSearchService.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/search/ElasticSearchService.java
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
  ********************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.openvsx.search;
 
+import java.time.ZoneId;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@
 import com.google.common.base.Strings;
 
 import org.eclipse.openvsx.entities.Extension;
+import org.eclipse.openvsx.migration.HandlerJobRequest;
 import org.eclipse.openvsx.repositories.RepositoryService;
 import org.eclipse.openvsx.search.RelevanceService.SearchStats;
 import org.eclipse.openvsx.util.ErrorResultException;
@@ -29,6 +31,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.search.sort.SortBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.sort.SortBuilders;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.sort.SortOrder;
+import org.jobrunr.scheduling.JobRequestScheduler;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
@@ -65,6 +68,9 @@ public class ElasticSearchService implements ISearchService {
     @Autowired
     RelevanceService relevanceService;
 
+    @Autowired
+    JobRequestScheduler scheduler;
+
     @Value("${ovsx.elasticsearch.enabled:true}")
     boolean enableSearch;
     @Value("${ovsx.elasticsearch.clear-on-start:false}")
@@ -95,6 +101,7 @@ public boolean isEnabled() {
     @Retryable(DataAccessResourceFailureException.class)
     @CacheEvict(value = CACHE_AVERAGE_REVIEW_RATING, allEntries = true)
     public void initSearchIndex(ApplicationStartedEvent event) {
+        scheduler.scheduleRecurrently("ElasticSearchUpdateIndex", "0 0 4 * * *", ZoneId.of("UTC"), new HandlerJobRequest<>(ElasticSearchUpdateIndexJobRequestHandler.class));
         if (!isEnabled() || !clearOnStart && searchOperations.indexOps(ExtensionSearch.class).exists()) {
             return;
         }
@@ -106,11 +113,10 @@ public void initSearchIndex(ApplicationStartedEvent event) {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Task scheduled once per day to soft-update the search index. This is necessary
-     * because the relevance of index entries might consider the extension publishing
-     * timestamps in relation to the current time or the extension rating.
+     * Soft-update the search index, because the relevance of index entries
+     * consider the extension publishing timestamps in relation to the current
+     * time or the extension rating.
      */
-    @Scheduled(cron = "0 0 4 * * *", zone = "UTC")
     @Retryable(DataAccessResourceFailureException.class)
     @CacheEvict(value = CACHE_AVERAGE_REVIEW_RATING, allEntries = true)
     public void updateSearchIndex() {
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/search/ElasticSearchUpdateIndexJobRequestHandler.java b/server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/search/ElasticSearchUpdateIndexJobRequestHandler.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0aa87fd24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/search/ElasticSearchUpdateIndexJobRequestHandler.java
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/** ******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2023 Precies. Software Ltd and others
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+ * ****************************************************************************** */
+package org.eclipse.openvsx.search;
+
+import org.eclipse.openvsx.migration.HandlerJobRequest;
+import org.jobrunr.jobs.annotations.Job;
+import org.jobrunr.jobs.lambdas.JobRequestHandler;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
+
+@Component
+public class ElasticSearchUpdateIndexJobRequestHandler implements JobRequestHandler<HandlerJobRequest> {
+
+    @Autowired
+    ElasticSearchService search;
+
+    @Override
+    @Job(name = "Task scheduled once per day to soft-update the search index.", retries = 0)
+    public void run(HandlerJobRequest jobRequest) throws Exception {
+        search.updateSearchIndex();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/search/ElasticSearchServiceTest.java b/server/src/test/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/search/ElasticSearchServiceTest.java
index 2d376cc60..c7e458ffc 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/search/ElasticSearchServiceTest.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/search/ElasticSearchServiceTest.java
@@ -9,19 +9,12 @@
  ********************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.openvsx.search;
 
-import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
-import static org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.any;
-
-import java.time.LocalDateTime;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
-
 import org.eclipse.openvsx.cache.LatestExtensionVersionCacheKeyGenerator;
 import org.eclipse.openvsx.entities.*;
 import org.eclipse.openvsx.repositories.RepositoryService;
 import org.eclipse.openvsx.util.TargetPlatform;
 import org.eclipse.openvsx.util.VersionService;
+import org.jobrunr.scheduling.JobRequestScheduler;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.ExtendWith;
 import org.mockito.Mockito;
@@ -38,8 +31,16 @@
 import org.springframework.test.context.junit.jupiter.SpringExtension;
 
 import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
+import java.time.LocalDateTime;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+import static org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.any;
 
 @ExtendWith(SpringExtension.class)
+@MockBean({JobRequestScheduler.class})
 public class ElasticSearchServiceTest {
 
     @MockBean