Job Description :
Title: Performance Engineer
Location: South Lake TX 76092
Duration: 12 Months
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
Develops, codes, tests and debugs new non-complex software solutions or enhancements to existing software in a maintenance capacity.
Has good understanding of business application.
Works with technical staff to understand problems with software and resolve them.
Resolves customer complaints with software performance and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements.
Qualifications
Education: B.S. degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or equivalent. Please contact your Human Resources Representative.
Experience: 5+ years of experience in developing Java applications.
Must have skills:
Performance Engineer should have working knowledge of some programming language like C, C++, java.
He should be aware of how objects are created/how they are destroyed etc. Familiarity with Memory allocation techniques/string Manipulation.
UNIX scripting knowledge is essential.
Understanding about presentation layers, business layers, database layers work and testing across layers. Basic working knowledge of the Web server and tunings.
Familiarity with OSI layer, Physical, data link, network, session, transport, application and presentation layers.
Should be familiar with unix/Linux Administration/ basic of application server and Tuning aspect of the Application servers.
Good Operating System Fundamental Knowledge affecting application performormance (in terms of size of the page file,size of RAM or number of processor,Limitation of NIC card etc
Importance of context switches,thread mechanism, process,memory allocation should be known.
Performance engineer should know the difference between Multi core/quad core etc systems and how does it affect the performance of the application.
Good to have knowledge as how the kernel works etc.
Basic networking concepts like usage of Ping,trace route,routing table,DNS functions,subnet mask including LAN and WAN Networks.
Performance engineer should know about how server farms works,what are the limitation of server farms,various methods of achieving load balancing across application like sticky session or via cookie.
Should be familiar with the concepts of Hardware/Network/Software Virtualization concepts,benefits and risks.
Basic concepts of cloud computing are essential.
Good written and verbal communication skills in English
Should be a team player with passion to learn.
Nice to have skills:
Knowledge of Eclipse RCP, OSGi, SWT is a plus
Knowledge of web technologies and tools (ex. Apache, Tomcat)
Knowledge of GUI technologies, HTML5, JavaScript
Knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems
Experience with Agile - Scrum framework