Sr. Performance Engineer

The Fountain Group; Boston, Dallas (TX, TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role is pivotal in optimizing system performance across distributed computing environments, ensuring applications meet high-performance standards. The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with developers and testers, utilizing advanced analytical methods and statistical models. You will lead performance initiatives, troubleshoot issues, and present findings to key stakeholders. If you are passionate about performance engineering and thrive in a collaborative environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in performance engineering and analysis.
• Expertise in load testing tools and scripting languages.
• Strong analytical skills with statistical modeling experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead performance engineering efforts and coordinate across teams.
• Conduct performance analysis and root cause analysis of issues.
• Deliver presentations and reports to stakeholders on performance metrics.

Skills

Performance Engineering

Analytical Skills

Statistical Modeling

Load Testing

Scripting (Perl, Unix shell, Python)

Agile Methodologies

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

JMeter

LoadRunner

TeamQuest

Dynatrace

AppDynamics

Splunk

DataDog

AWS

Azure

Jenkins

Job description

Project 229: Sr. Performance Engineer

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 DTCC 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.

Responsibilities:

1. Coordination / leadership of performance team and external team members, e.g. product, development, DBA, middleware, network
2. Assist in the development of estimates for projects
3. Assist with resource assignments and coordinate between teams at multiple locations to ensure on time delivery of projects
4. Work with product and development teams to define and maintain non-functional requirements to work into test plans
5. Deliver effective performance analysis, reporting and presentations to stakeholders (business, development)
6. Perform the analysis of relationships between the non-functional requirements and key performance metrics
7. Coordinate troubleshooting of infrastructure and application issues
8. Conduct root cause analysis of performance issues and bottlenecks
9. Defect tracking and reporting
10. Work closely with application development and other technical teams to ensure that defects are dealt with in a timely and professional manner
11. Develop and maintain statistical models of key performance metrics
12. Construct and maintain analytical models of applications/systems
13. Proactively identify areas for further research and analysis
14. Lead and participate in knowledge sharing activities
15. Mitigate risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

Experience:

1. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with Masters or equivalent experience
2. Minimum of 7 years of related experience
3. Minimum of 6 years of experience in performance engineering (analysis, testing, and tuning)
4. Minimum of 4 years of experience developing n-tier, J2EE software applications
5. Minimum of 4 years of experience working in Unix or Linux environments
6. Expertise in performance analysis of distributed platforms including Linux, Windows, AWS, Containers and VMware (tools: TeamQuest, OMi, CloudWatch, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, DataDog)
7. Substantial knowledge of the functionality and performance aspects of the above computing platforms
8. Experience in advanced statistical and analytical modeling
9. Excellent analytical skills including:
1. Data exploration, analysis and presentation utilizing descriptive statistics and graphical techniques
2. Time series analysis and forecasting
3. Key Performance and Volume metrics relationship modeling
4. 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
10. Expertise in load testing tools, such as JMeter, LoadRunner etc.
11. Experience in scripting (Perl, Unix shell, Python, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins)
12. Experience using JMS/IBM-MQ messaging system
13. Understanding of RESTful web service, JSON, and XML
14. Experience in Relational Databases, preferably Oracle, MSSQL
15. Experience working with AWS services (Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudwatch, Lambda, etc).
16. Experience working with Azure services (Virtual Machine, Service Bus, Kubernetes Services).
17. Experience working with MongoDB
18. Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementations, including testing, using Jenkins or similar tool
19. Expert MS Office skills. Effective use of Excel statistical functions and advanced Power Point presentation skills
20. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
21. Experience working with Agile teams (preferably scrum)
22. In-depth knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC)
23. Experience in the financial services industry