Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end performance engineering activities across the software development lifecycle.
• Diagnose and remediate performance bottlenecks in high-volume transactional systems using both predictive and real-time approaches for application, middleware (JVM GC), database, infrastructure, and cloud components.
• Design and execute workload modeling, capacity planning, and scalability assessments. Implement performance monitoring, observability, and proactive alerting strategies.
• Partner with development teams to optimize Java and Spring Boot applications to validate application readiness through load, stress, endurance, and resiliency testing.
• Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives with performance-focused architecture reviews.
• Establish performance engineering standards, best practices, and governance processes and mentor project teams in performance optimization techniques and performance-aware design.

Required Technical Skills

Performance Engineering

• 8+ years of experience in performance engineering, performance testing, and production diagnostics with understanding of extreme-volume transaction systems (20K+ TPS).
• Expertise in performance analysis, tuning, troubleshooting, and capacity planning and their related products such as Grafana, Dynatrace, LoadRunner, Selenium, Oracle AWS

Java & Application Performance

• Strong Java development background for very high transaction volume systems. Knowledge of various frameworks (Spring Boot, etc.), Microservices, JVM/Garbage Collection, and Heap Dumps.
• Experience optimizing application response times, throughput, and resource consumption.

AWS Cloud

• Hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying enterprise applications on AWS with emphasis on Auto-scaling, S3, EC2, CloudWatch, data protection at high volume levels, 7x24 architectures, etc.
• Understanding of cloud-native scalability and resiliency patterns

DevOps & Automation

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines including supporting tools such as Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, transportation, or other high-transaction environments.
• Knowledge of distributed system architecture and middleware such as Kafka.
• Experience with cloud observability and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer certification, and PE Testing preferred.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline. Equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will be considered

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree