Job Responsibilities
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Drives well-tuned implementations of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies.
- Master multi-cloud performance tooling; and lead the architecture and engineering of performance tooling to meet the firm’s needs.
- Build mechanisms to measure and track application efficient use of public and private cloud resources: compute, storage, database, and network.
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Anticipate and Identify issues - Performance Engineers look for potential problems that could negatively impact performance and work to eliminate or mitigate them.
- Plan and develop methodologies for standard performance benchmarks and comparisons.
- Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
- Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Infrastructure knowledge of VMWare virtualization and associated tooling
- Hands-on experience in performance troubleshooting skills
- Optimize software solutions for execution speed, memory efficiency and communication latency.
- Experienced in both Linux and Windows operating systems, a broad variety of databases, and infrastructure across compute, network and storage.
- Strong communication skills with ability to present, and effectively communicate with Senior Leaders and Executives. Experience in influencing engineers and leaders. Benchmark performance metrics for any given business case.
- Experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and expertise in technology disciplines
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Practical cloud native experience primarily in AWS is a plus
- Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practice.