Performance Engineer

Performance Engineer Chicago, IL (Onsite)

Fulltime only

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Five (5) years working as a Performance Engineer or related experience with high-traffic, large-scale distributed systems, client-server architectures onprem and cloud
• One (1) year of experience in software application development or test automation

Preferences

• Familiar with application architecture, design, capacity planning, and application performance best practices
• Familiar with container technologies
• Familiar with open source load testing tools such as Apache JMeter, http erf and APM, infrastructure monitoring tools like Splunk
• Familiar of mobile app (Android and iOS) and web technology stack (HTTP, REST, HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
• Familiar with SQL/NoSQL databases querying, profiling and performance tuning

Skills and Competencies

• Understanding of performance analysis and testing processes
• Hands-on experience with load testing tools like HP LoadRunner
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk
• Experience with other tools and frameworks such as Fiddler, Dynatrace, JMeter, Hammer, Performance Center
• Knowledge of application scalability and performance tuning (Web-based, ntier, MQ, CICS IMainframe))
• Ability to dissect multi-tiered systems and track data flow throughout an entire application stack
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Effective communication and leadership skills