[Hiring] Lead Performance Engineer @DMS Vision

Role Description

The Performance Engineering practice within our client technology group is focused on optimizing the performance and scalability of enterprise applications through the combination of:

• Testing: Analyzing, planning and executing production-like simulations across mobile and web solutions to identify & remediate performance problems, prevent production outages, and guarantee predictable performance.
• Diagnostics & Monitoring: Instrumenting the complete application architecture to provide real user and system performance data to provide insight into the root cause of all application bottlenecks, enable real-time visibility to reduce risk exposure.
• Performance Analytics: Measuring the relationship between end-to-end performance, user behavior, and business goals to maximize the business ROI, improve business KPIs, and increase efficiency.
• Business Optimization: Empowering technology/business stakeholders with contextual intelligence to visualize, quantify and maximize the business value of performance to improve the quality & performance of the business, increase customer satisfaction, and protect the client's reputation.

Important to Know: This person will be leading a team (10 people onsite and offshore), leading meetings, and providing reports in leadership meetings.

Qualifications

• Performance testing
• Performance Engineering
• Leadership

Requirements

• Strong leadership in developing the performance test plans and executing them with excellence.
• Dive deeply into SW/HW systems to solve for performance issues and make architectural, design, and coding recommendations where needed.
• Conduct Architectural & Technical reviews during the software development life cycle to identify potential bottlenecks and provide suggestions for performance improvements.
• Collaborate with development leads and project teams to review and refine application NFRs, SLAs, & KPIs.
• Collaborate with developers to promote the concept of performance engineering during all phases of the SDLC.
• Monitor application performance during performance tests or production usage using APM and other monitoring tools.
• Profile application performance from end-user perspective to inventory performance concerns and suggest tuning opportunities.
• Perform deep dive JVM analysis examining garbage collection logs, heap dumps, and thread dumps as needed.
• Document performance findings and recommendations.
• Interact with project teams, development, operations, and infrastructure resources to recommend solutions to remediate performance issues.
• Participate in re-architecture, redesign, and refactoring decisions to satisfy performance requirements.
• Develop dashboards and reports to provide ongoing visibility into the performance of client applications.
• Contribute learnings and experiences to the Kroger Performance CoE.
• Socialize and promote a Software/Systems focused engineering mindset and the usage of APM tools during the application development life-cycle phase across platforms.
• Responsible for developing a Performance Test Strategy, Scripting & executing Performance Tests, perform root cause analysis and provide mitigation.
• Monitor resource usage for physical servers, application servers & databases to drive optimization changes in production environment.
• Work with 'Service Owners' to optimize the configuration of clients, servers, and networking equipment.
• Plan and manage deliverables for performance diagnostic, capacity planning, performance architecture design, performance tuning, and performance monitoring.
• Conduct system performance and stress testing, analyze test results and suggest action plans.
• Distill volumes of data, analyze performance results, diagnose performance problems and clearly characterize system performance to stakeholders.
• Drive performance engineering as an integral step during the software development life cycle.

Benefits

• 100% Remote work flexibility
• Long-term contract (12+ months)