Job Description
Position: Performance Engineer
Duration: 1 Year Contract
Location: Walnut Creek, CA
Direct client: Immediate Interview
Responsibilities:
- Perform performance/scalability testing on our backend messaging platform
- The ideal candidate will have both the ability to create high-level benchmarks, working closely with Product Management and dev architects to define them, as well as the ability to develop micro-benchmarks to help isolate performance bottlenecks and confirm performance gains
- Deploy and manage clusters spanning hundreds of nodes
Requirements:
• 5+ years industry experience
• Skilled in both the art and science of benchmark creation and measurement and modelling of system behaviour under load
• Strong understanding of Java performance: garbage collection, heap dump analysis, tuning, caching, throttling and Java profiling
• Knowledge of statistical analysis and experimental design techniques
• Good knowledge of Hadoop, Oracle and SQL
• Deep knowledge of web services standards and related technologies (XML, SOAP, REST)
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking
• Experience in system monitoring and problem troubleshooting
• Equal comfort in Microsoft and Unix/Linux environments in terms of both tools and systems administration.
• Experience in tackling problems of load, scale, and optimizations of complex large-scale deployments
• Experience with Silk Performer tool is a plus
• Experience with Java is a plus
• Ability to find root cause of performance bottlenecks
Education:
· Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, or equivalent
Qualifications
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