Performance Engineer

Position Notes

We have an immediate requirement for a qualified Performance Engineer to join our passionate Performance Engineering CoE. Individual has a passion for identifying and/or optimizing system performance. This highly technical position is responsible for the performance engineering of distributed computing environments and providing analytical stress evaluations of applications/systems and service level compliance using statistical, analytical, and simulation methods. They will work hand-in-hand with developers and test engineers to deliver high performing, business-critical applications.

Experience

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with Masters or equivalent experience

Minimum Of 7 Years Of Related Experience

Minimum of 6 years of experience in performance engineering (analysis, testing, and tuning)

Minimum of 4 years of experience developing n-tier, J2EE software applications

Minimum of 4 years of experience working in Unix or Linux environments

Expertise in performance analysis of distributed platforms including Linux, Windows, AWS, Containers and VMware (tools: TeamQuest, OMi, CloudWatch, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, DataDog)

Substantial knowledge of the functionality and performance aspects of the above computing platforms

Experience in advanced statistical and analytical modeling

Excellent Analytical Skills Including

Data exploration, analysis and presentation utilizing descriptive statistics and graphical techniques

Time series analysis and forecasting

Key Performance and Volume metrics relationship modeling

Understanding of queuing networks modeling and simulation modeling concepts and experience with one of the industry standard analytic modeling tools TeamQuest, Metron-Athenee, HyPerformix, and BMC

Expertise in load testing tools, such as JMeter, LoadRunner etc.

Experience in scripting (Perl, Unix shell, Python, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins)

Experience using JMS/IBM-MQ messaging system

Understanding of RESTful web service, JSON, and XML

Experience in Relational Databases, preferably Oracle, MSSQL

Experience working with AWS services (Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudwatch, Lambda, etc).

Experience working with Azure services (Virtual Machine, Service Bus, Kubenetes Services).

Experience working with MongoDB

Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementations, including testing, using Jenkins or similar tool

Expert MS Office skills. Effective use of Excel statistical functions and advanced Power Point presentation skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Experience working with Agile teams (preferably scrum)

In-depth knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC)

Experience in the financial services industry

Responsibilities

Coordination / leadership of performance team and external team members, e.g. product, development, DBA, middleware, network

Assist in the development of estimates for projects

Assist with resource assignments and coordinate between teams at multiple locations to ensure on time delivery of projects

Work with product and development teams to define and maintain non-functional requirements to work into test plans

Deliver effective performance analysis, reporting and presentations to stakeholders (business, development)

Perform the analysis of relationships between the non-functional requirements and key performance metrics

Coordinate troubleshooting of infrastructure and application issues

Conduct root cause analysis of performance issues and bottlenecks

Defect tracking and reporting

Work closely with application development and other technical teams to ensure that defects are dealt with in a timely and professional manner

Develop and maintain statistical models of key performance metrics

Construct and maintain analytical models of applications/systems

Proactively identify areas for further research and analysis

Lead and participate in knowledge sharing activities

Mitigate risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior