Job Description :
Overview:
Frontline Education is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer. This individual will be responsible for developing the strategy, methods and tools required for testing, measuring and improving the performance, scalability and reliability of our platform.
Responsibilities:
Fully understand performance, scalability, and reliability requirements based on interaction with technical and business stakeholders
Mature the performance engineering strategy - encompassing process, environments, and tools - aligned with product, architecture, and IT goals
Prioritize and champion performance engineering into work streams to support business objectives
Establish and Maintain application benchmarks and work with product and technical teams to ensure performance standards are upheld
Plan and execute load, volume, stress and reliability tests
Evaluate and interpret test results to provides software, hardware, and network related recommendations
Assist teams in identifying performance tuning opportunities
Qualifications:
10+ years'' experience with performance engineering
Excellent knowledge of performance engineering standards
o HTTP Protocol, User scenario modeling
o Performance monitoring and counters
o Web Server and application server tuning
Experience with scripting or programming background
Expert knowledge of performance testing tools and utilities
o Experience with Blazemeter, Tarus, or coordinating distributed automated test execution
o Experience with JMeter or equivalent open source load testing tools
Expert knowledge in analysis and bottleneck identification
Experience working with Unix/Linux based systems
Knowledge of Windows server environments and operations
Experience with agile methodologies