Performance Engineering Lead - Cloud & AKS Scalability

Embedded Shishya; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Embedded Shishya is seeking an Enterprise Performance Engineer to lead scalability and reliability across distributed cloud and hybrid environments. You will design and execute load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests, identifying bottlenecks across applications, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.

Work with Architecture, DevOps, QA, and Development to validate production readiness and optimize system performance for high-availability Azure deployments.

Qualifications

• Lead performance testing across enterprise-scale systems.
• Design and execute load, stress, and endurance testing strategies.
• Validate production readiness with Architecture, DevOps, QA and Development teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor offshore Performance Engineer staff.
• Collaborate with Architecture, DevOps, QA and Development to optimize performance.

Skills

Performance testing

Distributed systems

Azure cloud

Kubernetes (AKS)

Metrics analysis

CI/CD pipelines

Troubleshooting

Leadership offshore team

Tools

Apache JMeter

Akamai CloudTest

Azure Load Testing

Azure Application Insights

Azure DB Metrics

AKS Monitoring

PowerShell

Job description

Embedded Shishya is seeking an Enterprise Performance Engineer to lead scalability and reliability across distributed cloud and hybrid environments. You will design and execute load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests, identifying bottlenecks across applications, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.

Work with Architecture, DevOps, QA, and Development to validate production readiness and optimize system performance for high-availability Azure deployments.