Description

Key Responsibilities

• Performance Strategy & Architecture

• Define enterprise-wide performance engineering standards, frameworks, and best practices.

• Review application and solution architectures to ensure scalability and performance requirements are met.

• Establish performance goals, KPIs, and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

• Partner with solution architects, developers, and operations teams to integrate performance considerations into design decisions.

• Performance Engineering

• Design and execute performance, load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing strategies.

• Analyze application behavior under varying workloads and identify bottlenecks.

• Develop test plans, scripts, and automation frameworks for performance testing.

• Evaluate infrastructure capacity and recommend optimization strategies.

• Performance Analysis & Optimization

• Conduct root cause analysis for performance issues across application, database, network, and cloud layers.

• Optimize APIs, microservices, databases, and distributed systems.

• Monitor system performance and create dashboards for ongoing visibility.

• Provide recommendations to improve response times, throughput, and resource utilization.

• Cloud & DevOps Integration

• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.

• Support performance engineering initiatives across Azure, AWS, or GCP environments.

• Drive observability practices using monitoring and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools.

• Collaborate with SRE and DevOps teams for proactive performance management.

• Leadership & Governance

• Mentor engineers on performance engineering principles and tools.

• Lead performance reviews and capacity planning exercises.

• Define governance processes, standards, and reporting mechanisms.

• Act as the subject matter expert for performance architecture and optimization.

• Required Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, or architecture roles.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and enterprise application architectures.

• Experience with performance testing tools such as:

• JMeter

• LoadRunner

• k6 • Gatling

• Azure Load Testing

• Knowledge of APM and observability tools:

• Azure Application Insights

• Dynatrace

• AppDynamics

• New Relic

• Splunk

• Strong SQL and database performance tuning experience.

• Experience with CI/CD platforms and DevOps practices.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing performance strategies for large-scale enterprise applications.

• Knowledge of microservices, Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native architectures.

• Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud certifications.

• Performance engineering or architecture certifications. Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• Ability to lead and mentor a team

• Ability to provide a technical and resource plan to project/program managers

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree