Performance Engineer Lead

PartnerOne; Turkey; On-site; TRY 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

PartnerOne is seeking an experienced Performance Engineer to lead enterprise testing efforts across distributed cloud and hybrid environments. You will design load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests for applications, APIs, databases, and infrastructure, and work closely with Architecture, DevOps, QA, and Development teams to ensure production readiness.

The role requires expertise in Azure cloud and AKS, strong metrics analysis and tuning skills, and experience building automated

Qualifications

• Experience in performance and scalability testing across distributed systems.
• Proficiency with Azure cloud and Kubernetes (AKS).
• Ability to analyze performance metrics and tune systems.
• Experience with CI/CD and automated performance pipelines.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Leadership or mentoring capabilities for offshore staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise performance engineering to ensure system scalability, stability, reliability, and responsiveness across distributed cloud and hybrid environments. Design and execute load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing strategies; identify bottlenecks across applications, APIs, databases, and infrastructure. Collaborate with Architecture, DevOps, QA, and Development teams to validate production readiness, optimize performance, and support high-availability cloud deployments within Azure and AKS.

Skills

Performance testing

Scalability testing

Distributed systems

API architecture

Azure cloud

AKS/Kubernetes

CI/CD

Troubleshooting

Mentoring offshore

Tools

Apache JMeter

Akamai CloudTest

Azure Load Testing

Azure Application Insights

Azure DB Metrics

AKS Container Monitoring

PowerShell

Job description

Overview

This Engineer will be responsible to lead the enterprise performance engineering efforts to ensure system scalability, stability, reliability, and responsiveness across distributed cloud and hybrid environments. Responsible for designing and executing load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing strategies while identifying bottlenecks across applications, APIs, databases, and infrastructure. Works closely with Architecture, DevOps, QA, and Development teams to validate production readiness, optimize system performance, and support high-availability cloud deployments within Azure and AKS environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise performance engineering to ensure system scalability, stability, reliability, and responsiveness across distributed cloud and hybrid environments. Design and execute load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing strategies; identify bottlenecks across applications, APIs, databases, and infrastructure. Collaborate with Architecture, DevOps, QA, and Development teams to validate production readiness, optimize performance, and support high-availability cloud deployments within Azure and AKS.

Tools

• Apache JMeter
• Akamai CloudTest
• Azure Load Testing
• Azure Application Insights
• Azure DB Metrics
• AKS Container Monitoring
• PowerShell Monitoring Scripts

Requirements

• Performance and scalability testing
• Distributed systems and API architecture
• Azure cloud and Kubernetes (AKS)
• Performance metrics analysis and tuning
• CI/CD and automated performance pipelines
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Lead, coach and mentor Performance Engineer staff offshore

Nice to Have

• Mortgage or FinTech industry experience
• Experience with enterprise SaaS platforms and high-volume transaction systems