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Project 229: Sr. Performance Engineer

We have an immediate requirement for a qualified Performance Engineer to join our passionate Performance Engineering CoE. Individual has a passion for identifying and/or optimizing system performance. This highly technical position is responsible forthe performance engineering of DTCC distributed computing environments and providing analytical stress evaluations of applications/systems and service level compliance using statistical, analytical, and simulation methods. They will work hand-in-hand with developers and test engineers to deliver high performing, business-critical applications.

Responsibilities:
• Coordination / leadership of performance team and external team members, e.g. product, development, DBA, middleware, network
• Assist in the development of estimates for projects
• Assist with resource assignments and coordinate between teams at multiple locations to ensure on time delivery of projects
• Work with product and development teams to define and maintain non-functional requirements to work into test plans
• Deliver effective performance analysis, reporting and presentations to stakeholders (business, development)
• Perform the analysis of relationships between the non-functional requirements and key performance metrics
• Coordinate troubleshooting of infrastructure and application issues
• Conduct root cause analysis of performance issues and bottlenecks
• Defect tracking and reporting
• Work closely with application development and other technical teams to ensure that defects are dealt with in a timely and professional manner
• Develop and maintain statistical models of key performance metrics
• Construct and maintain analytical models of applications/systems
• Proactively identify areas for further research and analysis
• Lead and participate in knowledge sharing activities
• Mitigate risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

Experience:
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with Masters or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 7 years of related experience
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in performance engineering (analysis, testing, and tuning)
• Minimum of 4 years of experience developing n-tier, J2EE software applications
• Minimum of 4 years of experience working in Unix or Linux environments
• Expertise in performance analysis of distributed platforms including Linux, Windows, AWS, Containers and VMware (tools: TeamQuest, OMi, CloudWatch, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, DataDog)
• Substantial knowledge of the functionality and performance aspects of the above computing platforms
• Experience in advanced statistical and analytical modeling
• Excellent analytical skills including:
• Data exploration, analysis and presentation utilizing descriptive statistics and graphical techniques
• Time series analysis and forecasting
• Key Performance and Volume metrics relationship modeling
• Understanding of queuing networks modeling and simulation modeling concepts and experience with one of the industry standard analytic modeling tools - TeamQuest, Metron-Athenee, HyPerformix, and BMC
• Expertise in load testing tools, such as JMeter, LoadRunner etc.
• Experience in scripting (Perl, Unix shell, Python, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins)
• Experience using JMS/IBM-MQ messaging system
• Understanding of RESTful web service, JSON, and XML
• Experience in Relational Databases, preferably Oracle, MSSQL
• Experience working with AWS services (Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudwatch, Lambda, etc).
• Experience working with Azure services (Virtual Machine, Service Bus, Kubenetes Services).
• Experience working with MongoDB
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementations, including testing, using Jenkins or similar tool
• Expert MS Office skills. Effective use of Excel statistical functions and advanced Power Point presentation skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working with Agile teams (preferably scrum)
• In-depth knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Experience in the financial services industry