Performance Engineer

Date Posted: 10/22/2025

Hiring Organization: Rose International

Position Number: 490346

Industry: Financial Services

Job Title: Performance Engineer

Job Location: Riverchase, AL, USA, 35244

Work Model: Hybrid

Work Model Details: 3 days in office, 2 days remote

Shift: Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Employment Type: Temporary

FT/PT: Full-Time

Estimated Duration (In months): 13

Min Hourly Rate : 62.00

Max Hourly Rate : 62.00

Must Have Skills/Attributes: Automation Testing, Cloud, Performance Testing, QA, Splunk

Experience Desired: Performance Engineer or related experience (5 yrs); Software application development or test automation (1+ yrs)

Required Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree

**C2C is not available**

Job Description

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field

Required Experience, Knowledge & Skills:

• 5 years working as a Performance Engineer or related experience with high-traffic, large-scale distributed systems, client-server architectures on-prem and cloud

• 1 year of experience in software application development or test automation

• Familiar with application architecture, design, capacity planning, and application performance best practices

• Experience with Structured Query Language (SQL), C, C++, C# or Java programming, and automated testing methodologies

• Familiar with container technologies

• Understanding of On Prem and Cloud

• Familiar with open-source load testing tools such as Apache JMeter, httperf and APM, infrastructure monitoring tools like Splunk

• Familiar of mobile app (Android and iOS) and web technology stack (HTTP, REST, HTML, JavaScript, CSS)

• Familiar with SQL/NoSQL databases – querying, profiling and performance tuning

• Experience with cloud DevOps (Kubernetes)

• Ability to dissect multi-tiered systems and track data flow throughout an entire application stack

• Effective communication and leadership skills

• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk

• Experience with other tools and frameworks such as Fiddler, Dynatrace, JMeter, Hammer, and Performance Center

• Hands-on experience with load testing tools like HP LoadRunner

• Knowledge of application scalability and performance tuning (Web-based, n-tier, MQ, CICS)

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Understanding of performance analysis and testing processes

The Performance Engineer conducts a wide range of quality control tests and analysis to ensure that software meets or exceeds specified standards and end-user requirements, and monitors the performance of the production systems. In addition, the Performance Engineer provides guidance and collaborates with various groups to develop and deploy high-performing applications and systems.

Job Duties:

• Collaborates with application development teams to mitigate performance bottlenecks throughout the entire application stack

• Recommends improvements to the architecture and deployment of applications under test

• Emphasizes methods of integrating testing best practices into the application development lifecycle to reduce friction, identify potential problems early, and improve cross-collaboration

• Participates in the Performance Engineering Community of Practice which is a technical platform that enables knowledge sharing and cross-collaboration, drive standardization and innovation

• Collaborates with other engineers to develop testing and monitoring approaches

• Focuses on assurance in the areas of error rates, response times, and impact to infrastructure

• Designs, scripts, configures, and run performance tests to validate production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance

• Conditions test data as needed to properly simulate test scenarios

• Supports testing needs of new projects, infrastructure upgrades, and application enhancements by validating application functionality against documented test cases

• Diagnoses, tracks, and manages performance issues to resolution

• Uses dashboards that enable efficient monitoring of applications and systems running in production environments to troubleshoot issues and report findings

• Provides summaries and assessments of the application’s performance, emphasizing trends over time

• Conducts “deep dive” analysis of data when trends or anomalies are identified

• Collaborates with Application Development teams during story design to ensure new application features are developed in a performant manner

• Participate in Program Increment Planning, Sprint Planning, and Daily standup meetings for development teams

• Provides leadership and mentorship to team of performance engineers

• Leads or participates in cross-organizational initiatives

**Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered. **

**Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements. **

Benefits:

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