Performance Engineer

  • Boston, MA
  • Posted 5 days ago | Updated 5 days ago

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2

Skills

defining and developing performance test strategies

Job Details

The Expertise We re Looking For

  • Experience working with a large-scale engineering team defining and developing performance test strategies
  • Expert in defining fundamental design principles for building a scalable application on cloud infrastructure like AWS
  • Deep knowledge of middleware Java stack, Oracle, messaging technologies and web containers
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced Agile software delivery environment, with exposure to continuous integration and continuous delivery tools.


The Purpose of Your Role

You will work with your squad to develop test strategies using project artifacts as well as in depth interviews of architects and development leads to assure capacity and stability of the applications meets requirements for production deployment. Assist the team in defining SLA s for various functional components in the platform and communicating performance testing results and identify areas for improvement with stakeholders.

The Skills You Bring

  • Excellent analytical skills and extensive troubleshooting experience of performance throughput issues.
  • You have experience with enterprise cloud enabled distributed systems.
  • Thorough understanding of distributed systems, Internet principles and statistical data analysis
  • Ability to identify application bottlenecks and assist engineers with improving application performance and reducing latency
  • Extensive experience with Dynatrace or similar, Datadog & Splunk


The Value You Deliver

  • You will participate in design and implementation of software solutions and ensure they meet non-functional requirements and that are aligned to the program s strategic direction.
  • You will ensure that component and system level SLA s for a mission critical platform are adhered to.
  • You will engage with a global team of engineers in leading best practices for performance engineering.
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