Systems Performance Engineer Senior

The Elevance Health Companies, Inc.; Winston-Salem (NC); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevance Health seeks a Senior Systems Performance Engineer to lead medium to large performance initiatives in a Winston‑Salem, NC hybrid setting. The role coordinates performance testing across teams and ensures service level agreements are met.

Responsibilities include developing tests, analyzing results, tuning production systems, and collaborating with stakeholders throughout the SDLC. A Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience are required, with expertise in Performance Center,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS, or related field.
• 7+ years of performance testing or related experience.

Responsibilities

• Define performance SLAs, test cases, and test plans.
• Lead and coordinate performance engineering efforts for medium to large initiatives.
• Develop and execute performance tests including load, stress, endurance, fail‑over, and interoperability testing.
• Analyze performance test results and production systems; recommend performance tuning.
• Monitor production system performance and report findings.
• Lead performance defect triage and coordinate performance engineering activities.
• Develop performance engineering work plans, project schedules, and resource estimates.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand performance and operational requirements.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or Computer Science

Tools

Performance Center

LoadRunner

AppDynamics

Splunk

Wily

CloudWatch

Jenkins

CI/CD

REST APIs

Oracle

SQL Server

Job description

Systems Performance Engineer, Senior

Location: Pulse Point, 5650 University Parkway, Winston‑Salem, NC 27105. Hybrid in‑office 1–2 days per week.

Work Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00am–5:00pm.

Responsibilities

• Assist business users in defining performance SLAs, test cases, and test plans.
• Lead and coordinate performance engineering efforts for medium to large initiatives.
• Gather, prepare, and document test data and expected system performance characteristics.
• Collect and prepare test data for execution.
• Develop and execute performance tests including load, stress, endurance, fail‑over, and interoperability testing.
• Analyze performance test results and production systems and recommend performance tuning improvements.
• Identify, report, and review defects affecting system performance and stability.
• Create reports documenting performance metrics, test results, analysis, and recommendations.
• Monitor production system performance.
• Lead peer reviews to ensure completeness of performance test assets.
• Follow SDLC and performance engineering processes.
• Resolve performance and stability issues in performance test environments.
• Lead performance defect triage and coordinate performance engineering activities.
• Develop performance engineering work plans, project schedules, and resource estimates.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand performance and operational requirements.
• Review architectural designs for performance risks and potential issues.
• Prepare capacity analyses when applicable.
• Facilitate team efforts across multiple projects and/or systems, improve the performance engineering process in the SDLC, and resolve production performance and stability issues.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field of study.
• Seven (7) years of performance test engineering and performance testing experience, or related experience.

Experience Requirements

• Performance Center
• LoadRunner
• Application monitoring tools including AppDynamics, Splunk, Wily, and CloudWatch.
• CI/CD and Jenkins
• REST and Web services
• Databases including Oracle and SQL Server

Equal Employment Opportunity

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.