Performance Architect

The Performance Architect will analyze system performance metrics and identify bottlenecks, providing recommendations for optimization and improvement. They will collaborate with development and operations teams to integrate performance considerations into the software development lifecycle, ensuring performance is a key focus from the outset. This role will develop and maintain performance testing frameworks and tools, ensuring they are up-to-date with the latest technologies and best practices.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities

• Troubleshoots, isolates and resolves applications code issues and other technical problems (hardware, software, Infra and network).
• Implement and recommend performance improvements on cloud (GCP/Azure) and on-prem for tiered environments.
• Establish and enable golden signal for Application Health, build dashboards, identifying and establishing SLA’s, set up alerting, logging and tracing as required.
• Use network profiling using tools like WireShark, Fiddler as necessary to troubleshoot issues
• Perform root cause analysis of Production performance issues and recommend fixes to developers on corrective actions.
• Work with other performance engineers on implementing a Continuous Performance program to support long-term application reliability and growth.
• Should be able to set up and run automated performance tests using Docker image to spin up, build and destroy load test infrastructure.
• Design, script, configure and run performance tests to validate system performance and stability.
• Conduct performance analysis, benchmarking, and modeling to identify performance bottlenecks, optimize system parameters, and guide architectural enhancements.
• Actively monitors the systems in PROD/non-prod environments and alerts the core group to prevent issues from happening.
• Creation, maintain Performance Test Strategy and roadmap for the org, Automated Test data creation strategy & Reporting strategy etc.
• Should be able to research on latest industry trends and enhancements to keep our tech stack latest and up to mark.

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer or software engineering
• 10 years Performance / Software Engineering
• Experience in working with enterprise level large systems tuning & troubleshooting.
• 3 years of experience in Performance Monitoring tool like Dynatrace , App Dynamics or New Relic.
• 7 years of experience in load testing tools like Load Runner , JMeter or Neoload.
• 1 years of experience in log monitoring tools like ELK , Splunk , ServiceNow
• 2 years of experience working on tools like Jenkins , Github Actions etc.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer or software engineering
• 3 year of experience working database tuning like MongoDB or Oracle or SQL.
• 2 years of experience analyzing top running queries in DB & tuning indexes.
• 1 years of working experience in application memory management & tuning etc