Senior Performance Testing Infra Engineer (GCP/K8s)

Tata Consultancy Services Limited; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design, provision, and manage production-like performance testing environments in Google Cloud and Kubernetes-based infrastructure. You will own distributed load testing, observability, and automation within cloud-native architectures.

You will work on large-scale, high-volume platforms, applying performance engineering best practices to identify bottlenecks and optimize scalability, latency, and reliability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on performance and load testing experience is required.
• Senior specialists, not generalist engineers.
• Deep expertise with k6 preferred; Locust or Gatling experience required.
• Experience in large-scale distributed load generation.
• Strong understanding of performance engineering: scalability, latency, bottlenecks.
• Experience with observability tools: Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, APM.
• Experience with cloud-native, microservices, event-driven architectures.
• Proven ability to identify and remediate complex performance issues.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and maintain production-like performance testing environments in GCP.
• Build and manage Kubernetes-based infrastructure supporting large-scale distributed load testing.
• Configure and optimize distributed load generation frameworks and execution environments.
• Automate environment provisioning, configuration, test execution, and teardown processes.
• Develop and maintain test data generation and seeding strategies.
• Implement and manage observability solutions to monitor platform behavior during performance tests.
• Support performance test execution and troubleshooting across engineering teams.
• Monitor system health, infrastructure utilization, and scalability metrics during testing activities.
• Identify infrastructure bottlenecks and recommend remediation strategies.
• Partner with QA and Software Engineering teams to ensure reliable and repeatable performance testing processes.
• Continuously improve platform scalability, reliability, and performance testing capabilities.

Skills

Performance testing

GCP

Kubernetes

Load testing infra

Terraform

Observability

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

k6

Locust

Gatling

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services Limited is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design, provision, and manage production-like performance testing environments in Google Cloud and Kubernetes-based infrastructure. You will own distributed load testing, observability, and automation within cloud-native architectures.

You will work on large-scale, high-volume platforms, applying performance engineering best practices to identify bottlenecks and optimize scalability, latency, and reliability.