Leader, Performance Engineering - Trivandrum

Leader, Performance Engineering - Trivandrum

Job Description

# Leader, Performance Engineering

**Location:** Thiruvananthapuram, Trivandrum
**Experience:** 15 - 18 years

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The Leader, Performance Engineering is a Senior Technical Leader who will understand the current solutions in order to create the performance engineering strategy and roadmap for designated solutions and assist in influencing, change management, and continuous performance engineering across SDLC. The Performance Engineering Lead will also create the enterprise level KPIs (Key performance indicators) and Metrics to demonstrate the value of performance engineering.

## Key Responsibilities

- Lead a team of 5-6 Performance Engineers and Testers and other Performance Engineering SMEs






- Define performance engineering standards, frameworks, best practices, and tools
- Embed Performance Engineering in SDLC leveraging Agile methodology
- Define tools to simulate and monitor key performance metrics as required
- Benchmark Production and Test Labs for baselining and ensure accuracy of test simulation
- Define Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools and requirements for Non prod and production in partnership with Dev Engineering and IT Operations teams.
- Embed performance tests process into Continuous Delivery process with Release Engineering
- Create performance NFE (Non Functional Engineering) guidelines and requirements with QA Governance team.
- Provide education and training of Performance Engineering and Testing related tools
- Build and oversee the processes to proactively manage solution performance
- Oversee the consolidation, analysis, and presentation of performance data in production environments and throughout the software development lifecycle






- Work with Product Solution and Infrastructure Architects and Product Development leaders to identify and test improvements, understand customer usage patterns, and recommend architectural and tuning improvements to increase performance and scalability
- Make recommendations on design direction, performance criteria, and work with the cross-functional performance teams in addressing improvements
- Work with cross-functional groups to address critical customer issues and maximize performance
- Creation and delivery of detailed technical documentation and presentations
- Oversight and guidance of new product initiatives ensuring adherence to architectural principles

## Skills and Knowledge

- Expert knowledge in all aspects of Performance Engineering including SDLC & Architecture, Performance validation (profiling, tuning, workload simulation,





benchmarking & testing), Capacity Planning, Application Performance Monitoring and problem detection and resolution.
- Expert in identifying and resolving system bottlenecks and limitations in software system architectures
- Strong ability to identify potential architecture limitations and resolve software & infrastructure performance issues
- Full stack, end-to-end, understanding of throughput, latency, memory, and CPU utilization in a multi-tiered architecture environment
- Strong fundamental knowledge in Performance tuning and optimization and optimal tuning guidelines for production setup JVM, Pool, logs, App/Web server, DB, OS, etc.
- Documentation of application performance benchmarks and its characteristics
- Expert in definition of Non-functional requirements (NFRs)





and validation of NFRs in architecture, design, build phases
- Expert knowledge in end to end profiling, tuning, recommendations for overall system scalability
- Expert knowledge in volumetric, sizing/estimation, and modeling
- Experience with capacity planning and scalability design
- Knowledgeable about useful metrics, and how to work with them to track against goals/KPIs.
- Strong organization and communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 10 years of experience in software development.

## Required Skills and Experience

- **Industry:** IT/Computers-Software
- **Role:** Leader, Performance Engineering
- **Key Skills:** Javascript, JProfiler, Azure, Performance Testing, Visual Studio,





SQL, Performance Engineering, Java, XML, Load Runner
- **Education:** B.E/B.Tech
- **Email ID:** [email protected]

▶️ Leader, Performance Engineering - Trivandrum
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