Senior Performance & Disaster Recovery Engineer

The Judge Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

The Judge Group is seeking an SDET with expertise in disaster recovery and performance testing in the United States. You will design and execute robust performance strategies, lead DR and multi-region resilience testing, and build automated frameworks that plug into CI/CD pipelines.

You will validate RTO/RPO objectives, analyze performance data, and collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps to ensure capacity planning and operational resilience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years in performance engineering/testing.
• 5+ years in DR/multi-region failover testing.
• Experience with LoadRunner, JMeter, or Gatling.
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute performance, load, stress, scalability, and failover testing strategies.
• Lead disaster recovery and multi-region resilience testing.
• Develop and maintain automated performance testing frameworks.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Validate RTO/RPO objectives, SLAs, and data integrity during failover scenarios.
• Analyze system performance and identify optimization opportunities.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps on capacity planning and resilience.

Skills

Performance testing

Disaster recovery testing

Load testing

Automation frameworks

CI/CD integration

Observability

Capacity planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

LoadRunner

JMeter

Gatling

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

Jenkins

Job description

The Judge Group is seeking an SDET with expertise in disaster recovery and performance testing in the United States. You will design and execute robust performance strategies, lead DR and multi-region resilience testing, and build automated frameworks that plug into CI/CD pipelines.

You will validate RTO/RPO objectives, analyze performance data, and collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps to ensure capacity planning and operational resilience.