Performance Engineer

This IT Performance Engineer position is a member of the Systems, Network and Applications Performance (SNAP) Center of Excellence. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing full-stack performance engineering support to Aeronautics, Space, Rotary & Mission Systems, and / or Missiles & Fire Control critical infrastructure, services or applications.

This position is remote and requires US citizenship.

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

Identifying relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) for the subject application or service

Identifying dependencies / interfaces with other applications and services

Developing performance requirements that support the (currently stated and anticipated future) business needs and customer expectations.

Developing the appropriate performance tests to validate adherence to the documented requirements

Selecting appropriate tools and test methodologies to execute adequate performance tests

Provide in-depth analysis of the performance implications of proposed architectures

Provide suggestions to architecture teams for achieving optimal performance within budget and technical constraints

The successful candidate must be a self-starter, able to independently support multiple IT applications / services, but also have the experience to recognize when to engage additional support from team leaders and / or peers to ensure that our customers receive world-class performance engineering support.

Application performance engineering experience: monitoring, testing, debugging and diagnosing application performance

Effective written and verbal communication skills; experience interfacing with customers on technical issues.

Experience troubleshooting the performance of compute devices (Windows, Linux), including the review of logs and other sources of performance indicators

Experience troubleshooting the performance of complex networks and networking devices, including firewalls, network load-balancers, routers, switches, etc.

Proven experience leading teams and / or projects, being accountable for meeting technical, schedule and cost objectives

Adaptable to changing priorities and circumstances

Experience writing in and debugging scripting languages such as Python, Perl, PowerShell

Experience with IT capacity and performance analysis: compute / server, file storage, network (vSphere, NetApp, etc.)

Experience being a member of an Agile team, and using Agile methodologies to track and execute tasks

Experience using tools such as ExtraHop, CA Performance Centre, CA Spectrum, LoadRunner, Splunk, SiteScope, Perfmon, Wireshark, Java profilers, etc. to troubleshoot performance anomalies

Experience administering and / or troubleshooting WebLogic, Apache, JBoss, or other containers

Experience troubleshooting J2EE and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tools like jps, jcmd, jstat, jmap, etc.