Performance Engineer
Posted 1 week ago by 1753344611
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: This remote Performance Engineer role involves identifying key performance indicators, developing performance requirements, and executing performance tests for IT applications and services. The successful candidate will analyze performance implications of architectures and provide recommendations to optimize performance within constraints. The position requires strong communication skills and the ability to work independently while engaging with team leaders when necessary. Preference is given to candidates located within 50 miles of a major facility.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identifying relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) for the subject application or service
- Identifying dependencies/interfaces with other applications and services
- Developing performance requirements that support business needs and customer expectations
- Developing appropriate performance tests to validate adherence to documented requirements
- Selecting appropriate tools and test methodologies to execute adequate performance tests
- Providing in-depth analysis of performance implications of proposed architectures
- Providing suggestions to architecture teams for achieving optimal performance within budget and technical constraints
Key Skills:
- Application performance engineering experience: monitoring, testing, debugging and diagnosing application performance
- Effective written and verbal communication skills; experience interfacing with customers on technical issues
- Experience troubleshooting the performance of compute devices (Windows, Linux), including the review of logs and other sources of performance indicators
- Experience troubleshooting the performance of complex networks and networking devices, including firewalls, network load-balancers, routers, switches, etc.
- Proven experience leading teams and/or projects, being accountable for meeting technical, schedule and cost objectives
- Adaptable to changing priorities and circumstances
- Experience writing in and debugging scripting languages such as Python, Perl, PowerShell
- Experience with IT capacity and performance analysis: compute/server, file storage, network (vSphere, NetApp, etc.)
- Experience being a member of an Agile team, and using Agile methodologies to track and execute tasks
- Experience using tools such as ExtraHop, CA Performance Centre, CA Spectrum, LoadRunner, Splunk, SiteScope, Perfmon, Wireshark, Java profilers, etc. to troubleshoot performance anomalies
- Experience administering and/or troubleshooting WebLogic, Apache, JBoss, or other containers
- Experience troubleshooting J2EE and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tools like jps, jcmd, jstat, jmap, etc.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
This position is remote
Job Description:
The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:
- Identifying relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) for the subject application or service
- Identifying dependencies / interfaces with other applications and services
- Developing performance requirements that support the (currently stated and anticipated future) business needs and customer expectations.
- Developing the appropriate performance tests to validate adherence to the documented requirements
- Selecting appropriate tools and test methodologies to execute adequate performance tests
- Provide in-depth analysis of the performance implications of proposed architectures
- Provide suggestions to architecture teams for achieving optimal performance within budget and technical constraints
The successful candidate must be a self-starter, able to independently support multiple IT applications / services, but also have the experience to recognize when to engage additional support from team leaders and / or peers to ensure that our customers receive world-class performance engineering support.
This position is remote, as part of a geographically-dispersed team. However, preference will be given to candidates who are within 50 miles of a major facility.
This position requires ship.
- Application performance engineering experience: monitoring, testing, debugging and diagnosing application performance
- Effective written and verbal communication skills; experience interfacing with customers on technical issues.
- Experience troubleshooting the performance of compute devices (Windows, Linux), including the review of logs and other sources of performance indicators
- Experience troubleshooting the performance of complex networks and networking devices, including firewalls, network load-balancers, routers, switches, etc.
- Proven experience leading teams and / or projects, being accountable for meeting technical, schedule and cost objectives
- Adaptable to changing priorities and circumstances
- Experience writing in and debugging scripting languages such as Python, Perl, PowerShell
- Experience with IT capacity and performance analysis: compute / server, file storage, network (vSphere, NetApp, etc.)
- Experience being a member of an Agile team, and using Agile methodologies to track and execute tasks
- Experience using tools such as ExtraHop, CA Performance Centre, CA Spectrum, LoadRunner, Splunk, SiteScope, Perfmon, Wireshark, Java profilers, etc. to troubleshoot performance anomalies
- Experience administering and / or troubleshooting WebLogic, Apache, JBoss, or other containers
- Experience troubleshooting J2EE and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tools like jps, jcmd, jstat, jmap, etc.