Job Description :
Job Summary:
This role will be responsible for design, deliver, and optimize high-performing systems. Provides architecture and application design and development guidance that ensures scalability and minimizes performance issues.
Essential Functions:
Responsible for capacity estimation/planning, modeling, monitoring, analyzing and recommending solutions to performance problems with enterprise business application and load balancer issues.
Review architecture and design for performance
Creating a performance testing strategy, workload modeling, running various types of performance tests. Review the tests and analyze and provide recommendations to improve.
Obtain information on limitations / capabilities, performance requirements, hardware & software interfaces to develop specifications and resolve technical issues related to performance.
Monitor resource usage for physical servers, application servers & databases to drive optimization changes in production environment.
Plan and manage deliverables for: performance diagnostic, capacity planning, performance architecture design, performance tuning, and performance monitoring.
Conduct system performance and stress testing, analyze test results and suggest action plans.
Distill volumes of data, analyzes performance results, diagnoses performance problems and clearly characterize system performance to stakeholders.
Drive performance engineering as an integral step during the software development life cycle.
Requirements:
5+ years of software product development and delivery experience.
3+ years of performance engineering & performance testing experience.
Ability to identify system bottlenecks with strong troubleshooting, problem solving & reasoning skills.
Familiarity with tools such as Fiddler, Firebug, YSlow and JProfiler.
Experience in using monitoring tools & ability to identify performance issues within J2EE architecture.
Experience in JAVA, Web Services, XML technologies and SQL performance tuning.
Experience with Load balancers, Webservers, Database, Operating System, Network Software and Hardware.
Preferred:
Familiarity with Test-driven development (TDD) and virtualization technologies.
Working knowledge of Web services, ORM technologies & WebSphere Commerce Server.
Programming skills in Java and .Net.
Knowledge on SOA, AJAX and Web 2.0.