Performance Engineer

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Job Description

We are looking for a Performance Engineer to join our Performance Engineering team. This is a great opportunity for someone with the right experience to broaden their skills and share their knowledge. We are looking for an experienced individual who can work both as part of a team and individually to meet our client needs.

What’s involved?

• Ensuring our applications are performant, reliable and scalable
• Planning, definition, execution and analysis of performance testing strategies and solutions
• Design and implementation of performance testing scripts
• Identification and troubleshooting of application performance issues, providing resolution recommendations to development teams.
• Participate in validation of software releases and hardware upgrades.
• Communicate with Application Development team on application performance issues.
• Be part of shift left performance automation in the CI/CD pipeline delivery
• Work with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to identify and verify tuning enhancements for applications
• Assist in triage of production performance issues in a fast and efficient manner

Required Qualification

• Minimum of a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or similar accreditation and experience

• 5+ years of experience in Performance Engineering

Required Experience

Several years of experience in performance engineering practices is required for this role. We are looking for an individual who can take on the responsibility of performance testing engagements and troubleshoot performance issues from the outset. You will need experience with the following:

• LoadRunner, NeoLoad, JMeter or similar load test automation tools
• Application Performance Management tool experience, such as: CA/Broadcom DX SaaS, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, etc.
• Ability to build custom tooling to streamline your work processes
• Analysis of and identification of performance issues in
  • Java applications
  • MSSQL and/or Oracle Databases
  • Front end applications developed with JavaScript technologies
• UNIX/Linux systems
• Windows Server
• AWS
• Trend analysis of Performance testing results

Technical Skills: Automated Testing/Scripting, Java, SQL, use of code repositories, general IT troubleshooting skills

Desired Experience

The following experience is desired but not essential to the role

• Front-Web Web Development experience, specifically using JavaScript
• Configuration and Administration of Apache and Java environments
• Experience with Grafana, Influx DB and Prometheus or similar solutions
• Experience in troubleshooting network performance issues
• Experience with CI/DI tools such as CDD and Jenkins
• Creation/Configuration of Synthetic Application Monitoring
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Exposure/Knowledge of Cloud Computing

Attributes

• Ability to work on own initiative and own the work assigned to you
• Customer focus, service delivery oriented
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work on multiple, concurrent testing projects
• Ability to mentor individuals on topics such as Performance Engineering principles and APM utilisation
• Ability to work with team members spread over multiple locations
• Good understanding of computer hardware and software skills
• Desire to learn and seek out challenges

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