Senior Application Performance Engineer (Job #6260)

Unclassified

Full-time

About the position

The position is for a member of the DevOps team, focusing on system-wide performance analysis, optimization, and scalability efforts. The role involves collaboration with agile development teams, infrastructure groups, and product owners to enhance application performance and ensure high availability. The candidate will monitor systems, troubleshoot performance issues, and propose design improvements to meet performance and availability requirements.

Responsibilities

• Work with agile development teams, infrastructure groups, and product owners to carry out system-wide performance analysis, optimization, and scalability efforts.
• Collaborate with the load testing team to monitor systems and network performance, identifying and troubleshooting performance issues.
• Work closely with development teams to identify performance bottlenecks and constraints, proposing design improvements to meet performance and availability requirements.
• Evaluate alternative design approaches with respect to alignment with the end user experience.
• Monitor and troubleshoot application performance to improve and enhance the quality of the end-user experience.
• Monitor system usage trends and prepare capacity plans.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to troubleshoot end-to-end business processes in deployment and operations environments.

Requirements

• 3-4 years of hands-on experience monitoring, analyzing, and tuning web-based, Internet-facing multi-tier applications.
• 3+ years of experience with enterprise-level application performance monitoring (APM) tools and technologies such as AppDynamics, Hyperic, Riverbed/OPNET tools.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP networking protocols.
• Familiarity with high availability techniques and technologies (e.g., clustering, load balancing).
• Experience working in fast-paced, client-facing operational environments, running business/mission critical systems is required.
• Ability to successfully perform multiple concurrent tasks and changing priorities on a tight schedule.
• Experience with application and network virtualization technologies is highly desirable.
• Experience with VMWare monitoring, cloud computing is highly desirable.