Performance Engineer

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

Nagesh

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