Performance Engineer

Skills

• Coordination / leadership of performance team and external team members e.g. product development DBA middleware network • Assist in the development of estimates for projects • Assist with resource assignments and coordinate between teams at multiple locations to ensure on time delivery of projects • Work with product and development teams to define and maintain non-functional requirements to work into test plans • Deliver effective performance analysis reporting and presentations to stakeholders (business development) • Perform the analysis of relationships between the non-functional requirements and key performance metrics • Coordinate troubleshooting of infrastructure and application issues • Conduct root cause analysis of performance issues and bottlenecks • Defect tracking and reporting • Work closely with application development and other technical teams to ensure that defects are dealt with in a timely and professional manner • Develop and maintain statistical models of key performance metrics • Construct and maintain analytical models of applications/systems • Proactively identify areas for further research and analysis • Lead and participate in knowledge sharing activities • Mitigate risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

Description

We have an immediate requirement for a qualified Performance Engineer to join our passionate Performance Engineering CoE. Individual has a passion for identifying and/or optimizing system performance. This highly technical position is responsible for the performance engineering of DTCC distributed computing environments and providing analytical stress evaluations of applications/systems and service level compliance using statistical, analytical, and simulation methods. They will work hand-in-hand with developers and test engineers to deliver high performing, business-critical applications.

Responsibilities

• · Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with Masters or equivalent experience
• · Minimum of 7 years of related experience
• · Minimum of 10 years of experience in performance engineering (analysis, testing, and tuning)
• · Minimum of 4 years of experience developing n-tier, J2EE software applications
• · Minimum of 4 years of experience working in Unix or Linux environments
• · Expertise in performance analysis of distributed platforms including Linux, Windows, AWS, Containers and VMware (tools: TeamQuest, OMi, CloudWatch, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, DataDog)
• · Substantial knowledge of the functionality and performance aspects of the above computing platforms
• · Experience in advanced statistical and analytical modeling
• · Excellent analytical skills including:
• · Data exploration, analysis and presentation utilizing descriptive statistics and graphical techniques
• · Time series analysis and forecasting
• · Key Performance and Volume metrics relationship modeling
• · Understanding of queuing networks modeling and simulation modeling concepts and experience with one of the industry standard analytic modeling tools – TeamQuest, Metron-Athenee, HyPerformix, and BMC
• · Expertise in load testing tools, such as JMeter, LoadRunner etc.
• · Experience in scripting (Perl, Unix shell, Python, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins)
• · Experience using JMS/IBM-MQ messaging system
• · Understanding of RESTful web service, JSON, and XML
• · Experience in Relational Databases, preferably Oracle, MSSQL
• · Experience working with AWS services (Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudwatch, Lambda, etc).
• · Experience working with Azure services (Virtual Machine, Service Bus, Kubenetes Services).
• · Experience working with MongoDB
• · Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementations, including testing, using Jenkins or similar tool
• · Expert MS Office skills. Effective use of Excel statistical functions and advanced Power Point presentation skills
• · Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• · Experience working with Agile teams (preferably scrum)
• · In-depth knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• · Experience in the financial services industry