Immediate need for a talented Automation Engineer. This is a 06 months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Irving, TX (Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job ID: 26-03577
Pay Range: $60 - $65/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
Key Responsibilities:
- Performance Testing
- Design and execute performance tests to evaluate the system's responsiveness, stability, scalability, and resource usage.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and provide recommendations for improvements.
- Analyze test results and generate detailed performance reports.
- Resiliency Testing
- Conduct resiliency tests to ensure the system can handle failures and recover gracefully.
- Implement and test failure scenarios to validate the system's fault tolerance.
- Recommend and validate resiliency patterns such as circuit breakers, bulkheads, and retries.
- Performance Monitoring
- Set up and maintain performance monitoring tools to continuously track system performance.
- Analyze performance metrics and logs to detect and diagnose performance issues in real-time.
- Capacity Planning
- Perform capacity planning to ensure the system can handle expected and peak loads.
- Provide recommendations for scaling resources based on performance data and future growth projections.
- Performance Optimization
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to optimize code, database queries, and infrastructure configurations.
- Recommend best practices for performance tuning and optimization.
- Kubernetes Performance Parameters
- Recommend and configure performance parameters for Kubernetes clusters, such as resource limits, requests, and autoscaling policies.
- Ensure optimal performance of containerized applications running in Kubernetes environments.
- Resiliency Patterns
- Recommend and implement resiliency patterns like circuit breakers, rate limiters, and fallback mechanisms to enhance system reliability.
- Validate the effectiveness of these patterns through testing and monitoring.
- Documentation and Training
- Document performance testing methodologies, tools, and best practices.
- Provide training and support to development and operations teams on performance and resiliency best practices.
- Continuous Improvement
- Continuously evaluate and improve performance testing and monitoring processes.
- Stay updated with the latest performance engineering tools, techniques, and industry trends.
Key Requirements and Technology Experience:
- Key skills; Performance Testing, Java, Python, Docker, Splunk
- Experience with containerization technologies like Docker.
- String scripting skills in languages such as Bash, Python.
- Effective problem-solving and analytical skills
- Must be familiar with observability and APM tools like Splunk, ELK, AppDynamics etc
- Good understanding of Architecture patterns and resiliency.
- Programing experience in Java and Spring boot
- Strong microservices application support experience.
- Proficient understanding of algorithms, data structures, architectural design patterns and best practices.
- Experience with Cloud is required
- Experience working applications using Kubernetes platform is preferred
- Understanding of networking concepts, including DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and VPNs.
Our client is a leading Banking Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
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