Immediate Hiring::Direct Client::Virtualization Performance Engineer::HYBRID ROLE

Job Title: Virtualization Performance Engineer HYBRID ROLE (2 weeks a month onsite)

Location: Westlake, TX or Merrimack, NH

Duration: Long term

Job Description

Key Details

• Locations: Merrimack, NH & Westlake, TX
• Interview Process: Typically 2 rounds (may extend to 3 if needed)

Role Focus

• Title: Virtualization Performance Engineer
• Team Setup:
• New team within SRE org.
• Primary focus: performance engineering/testing on virtualization platforms (not typical SRE role).
• Will support multiple business unit applications migrating from VMware to Oracle OLVM.

Must-Have Skills

• Strong Performance Engineering background
• Identifying/resolving performance bottlenecks
• Benchmark testing & performance monitoring
• Tools: Grafana, Splunk, Perfmon, Linux CLI tools (top, iostat, etc.)
• Hypervisor experience:
• Oracle OLVM (preferred)
• KVM, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V (acceptable alternatives)
• Performance testing tools:
• In-house: Rush Hour (based on Locust)
• Industry: JMeter (good to have)
• Networking troubleshooting: TCP dumps, Wireshark, etc.
• Programming/Scripting: Python (for automation, custom performance scripts)

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with benchmarking tools: FIO, D-Bench, etc.
• Knowledge of custom workload simulation (e.g., financial FIX protocol or non-UI based apps).

Not Mandatory

• Candidates don t need specific in-house tools (e.g., Rush Hour) transferable experience (JMeter, Locust, etc.) is fine.
• Exact VertIO/OLVM experience is not required if strong in other hypervisors + performance testing.

Role Breakdown

• ~60% Performance Testing: requirements gathering, test planning, executing test cases.
• ~40% Performance Engineering: analyzing results, identifying issues, working with product owners on fixes.

With Regards

Kotesh

Direct: /

Desk#: EXT 174

HCL Global Systems, Inc