IT Performance Engineer

Job Description

This IT Performance Engineer position is a member of the Systems, Network and Applications Performance (SNAP) Center of Excellence.
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing full-stack performance engineering support to Aeronautics, Space, Rotary & Mission Systems, and / or Missiles & Fire Control critical infrastructure, services or applications.

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:
• Identifying relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) for the subject application or service
• Identifying dependencies / interfaces with other applications and services
• Developing performance requirements that support the (currently stated and anticipated future) business needs and customer expectations.
• Developing the appropriate performance tests to validate adherence to the documented requirements
• Selecting appropriate tools and test methodologies to execute adequate performance tests
• Provide in-depth analysis of the performance implications of proposed architectures
• Provide suggestions to architecture teams for achieving optimal performance within budget and technical constraints

The successful candidate must be a self-starter, able to independently support multiple IT applications / services, but also have the experience to recognize when to engage additional support from team leaders and / or peers to ensure that our customers receive world-class performance engineering support.

This position is remote, as part of a geographically-dispersed team. However, preference will be given to candidates who are within 50 miles of a major facility.

This position requires US citizenship.
• Application performance engineering experience: monitoring, testing, debugging and diagnosing application performance
• Effective written and verbal communication skills; experience interfacing with customers on technical issues.
• Experience troubleshooting the performance of compute devices (Windows, Linux), including the review of logs and other sources of performance indicators
• Experience troubleshooting the performance of complex networks and networking devices, including firewalls, network load-balancers, routers, switches, etc.
• Proven experience leading teams and / or projects, being accountable for meeting technical, schedule and cost objectives
• Adaptable to changing priorities and circumstances
• Experience writing in and debugging scripting languages such as Python, Perl, PowerShell
• Experience with IT capacity and performance analysis: compute / server, file storage, network (vSphere, NetApp, etc.)
• Experience being a member of an Agile team, and using Agile methodologies to track and execute tasks
• Experience using tools such as ExtraHop, CA Performance Centre, CA Spectrum, LoadRunner, Splunk, SiteScope, Perfmon, Wireshark, Java profilers, etc. to troubleshoot performance anomalies
• Experience administering and / or troubleshooting WebLogic, Apache, JBoss, or other containers
• Experience troubleshooting J2EE and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tools like jps, jcmd, jstat, jmap, etc