diff --git a/plugin/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/job/persistence/JobProvider.java b/plugin/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/job/persistence/JobProvider.java
index 19413af067e..4ebd9bb2365 100644
--- a/plugin/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/job/persistence/JobProvider.java
+++ b/plugin/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/job/persistence/JobProvider.java
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ import org.elasticsearch.ResourceNotFoundException;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.create.CreateIndexRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.mapping.put.PutMappingResponse;
-import org.elasticsearch.action.get.GetRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.get.GetResponse;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.search.MultiSearchRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.search.MultiSearchRequestBuilder;
@@ -38,7 +37,6 @@ import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.NamedXContentRegistry;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentFactory;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentParser;
-import org.elasticsearch.index.IndexNotFoundException;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperService;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.Uid;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.UidFieldMapper;
@@ -341,31 +339,6 @@ public class JobProvider {
         }
     }
 
-    private <T, U> void get(String indexName, String type, String id, Consumer<T> handler, Consumer<Exception> errorHandler,
-                            BiFunction<XContentParser, U, T> objectParser, Supplier<T> notFoundSupplier) {
-        GetRequest getRequest = new GetRequest(indexName, type, id);
-        client.get(getRequest, ActionListener.wrap(
-                response -> {
-                    if (response.isExists() == false) {
-                        handler.accept(notFoundSupplier.get());
-                    } else {
-                        BytesReference source = response.getSourceAsBytesRef();
-                        try (XContentParser parser = XContentFactory.xContent(source).createParser(NamedXContentRegistry.EMPTY, source)) {
-                            handler.accept(objectParser.apply(parser, null));
-                        } catch (IOException e) {
-                            throw new ElasticsearchParseException("failed to parse " + type, e);
-                        }
-                    }
-                },
-                error -> {
-                    if (error instanceof IndexNotFoundException == false) {
-                        errorHandler.accept(error);
-                    } else {
-                        handler.accept(notFoundSupplier.get());
-                    }
-                }));
-    }
-
     public static IndicesOptions addIgnoreUnavailable(IndicesOptions indicesOptions) {
         return IndicesOptions.fromOptions(true, indicesOptions.allowNoIndices(), indicesOptions.expandWildcardsOpen(),
                 indicesOptions.expandWildcardsClosed(), indicesOptions);
@@ -759,8 +732,7 @@ public class JobProvider {
      * @param jobId the id of the job for which influencers are requested
      * @return an influencer {@link BatchedDocumentsIterator}
      */
-    public BatchedDocumentsIterator<BatchedResultsIterator.ResultWithIndex<Influencer>>
-    newBatchedInfluencersIterator(String jobId) {
+    public BatchedDocumentsIterator<BatchedResultsIterator.ResultWithIndex<Influencer>> newBatchedInfluencersIterator(String jobId) {
         return new BatchedInfluencersIterator(client, jobId);
     }
 
@@ -773,9 +745,11 @@ public class JobProvider {
             handler.accept(null);
             return;
         }
-        get(AnomalyDetectorsIndex.jobResultsAliasedName(jobId), ModelSnapshot.TYPE.getPreferredName(),
-                ModelSnapshot.documentId(jobId, modelSnapshotId), handler, errorHandler,
-                (parser, context) -> ModelSnapshot.PARSER.apply(parser, null).build(), () -> null);
+        String resultsIndex = AnomalyDetectorsIndex.jobResultsAliasedName(jobId);
+        SearchRequestBuilder search = createDocIdSearch(resultsIndex, ModelSnapshot.TYPE.getPreferredName(),
+                ModelSnapshot.documentId(jobId, modelSnapshotId));
+        searchSingleResult(jobId, ModelSnapshot.TYPE.getPreferredName(), search,
+                ModelSnapshot.PARSER, builder -> handler.accept(builder == null ? null : builder.build()), errorHandler, () -> null);
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/plugin/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/job/process/autodetect/output/AutoDetectResultProcessor.java b/plugin/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/job/process/autodetect/output/AutoDetectResultProcessor.java
index 80f9e84258a..977cec0e26a 100644
--- a/plugin/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/job/process/autodetect/output/AutoDetectResultProcessor.java
+++ b/plugin/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/job/process/autodetect/output/AutoDetectResultProcessor.java
@@ -166,6 +166,9 @@ public class AutoDetectResultProcessor {
         ModelSnapshot modelSnapshot = result.getModelSnapshot();
         if (modelSnapshot != null) {
             persister.persistModelSnapshot(modelSnapshot);
+            // We need to refresh the index in order for the snapshot to be available when we'll try to
+            // update the job with it
+            persister.commitResultWrites(jobId);
             updateModelSnapshotIdOnJob(modelSnapshot);
         }
         Quantiles quantiles = result.getQuantiles();