Senior Performance Engineer Jobs in Silver Spring, MD

 We are looking for a Senior Performance Engineer for an exciting project in Chantilly, VA supporting the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA). This project supports the implementation of the Enterprise Veterans Self Service (EVSS) Portal and enables the VA to educate, empower, and connect Veterans while standardizing platforms to lower overall costs. This is a marquis system at the VA and has enormous visibility at all levels up the chain-of-command; it is an enterprise scale development. The daily environment is very faced-paced, with team members situated in 4 different locations.

In your role as a Senior Performance Engineer, you will lead efforts to predict transaction workload and identify software, systems and network integration to optimize through-put and user response. You will also be responsible to identify any component that will throttle transactions to a sub-optimal state. You will work with stakeholders and product owners to define capacity requirements. You will be an integral resource to the Program Architectural Review Board (ARB) in order to represent technical areas for improvement.

You will work with our production operations team, development teams, program management, and our clients to lead and facilitate short term and long term actions to resolve any performance issues. And most importantly, you will help the team to identify longer term initiatives to improve performance and reduce bottlenecks.

As the Senior Performance Engineer, you will:

       Lead the Program's Performance Team

       Prepare Performance and Capacity Baseline Plans for the Program

       Review and interpret performance measurements from a variety of tools - Google Analytics and Introscope

       Utilize Introscope to further analyze application software service calls, Web Logic, Red Hat Linux, and network traffic to define baselines and identify variances for each software release

       Identify application software enhancements within our software development stack (application functionality, caching, SDK upgrades, etc.)

       Identify capacity thresholds in areas beyond our SDK

       Participate in our Program Architectural Review Board (ARB) to assess and review changes being recommended

       Define, aggregate and report on release performance via customized scripts prepared by the Performance Team

       Participate in stakeholder discussions to present and communicate areas for reconsideration to improve user response times

       Participate in an agile team to deliver the full lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, design, development, testing and deployment

       Recommend and implement refactoring of existing applications to incorporate best practices to improve performance

       Study the systems and components of our application to identify specific functional changes for the next release or posted to the Program Backlog

       Mentor performance engineers

       10+ years of progressive performance engineering / analyst experience

       Highly motivated, success oriented, organized and strong work ethic

       Take pride in the quality and efficiency of your work

       Experience with and knowledge of Web software and infrastructure and processing using a Java code base

       7+ years of system monitoring technologies and tools (e.g. Introscope, Google Analytics, AWStats, AppDynamics)

       5+ years of conducting performance analysis and techniques that demonstrates experience and results

       4+ years of automated tools for conducting load test measurement (e.g., LoadRunner)

       Data analysis skills to aggregate data from multiple sources and prepare visuals for stakeholder consumption

       Practical experience implementing test driven design strategies, including experience with mocking/simulating external services

       Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle

       Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion

       Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills

       Advanced written and verbal communication skills are a must

       Microsoft Office knowledge of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

** Must be able to obtain a Public Trust Clearance. **

Desired:

       Previous experience with the Department of Veterans Affairs

       Agile team experience

Apply: https://audacia.workable.com/j/6371B028A0