Sr. Performance Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Performance Engineer for an exciting project in Chantilly, VA supporting the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA). This project supports the implementation of the Enterprise Veterans Self Service (EVSS) Portal and enables the VA to educate, empower, and connect Veterans while standardizing platforms to lower overall costs. This is a marquis system at the VA and has enormous visibility at all levels up the chain-of-command;

it is an enterprise scale development. The daily environment is very faced-paced, with team members situated in 4 different locations.

In your role as a Senior Performance Engineer, you will lead efforts to predict transaction workload and identify software, systems and network integration to optimize through-put and user response. You will also be responsible to identify any component that will throttle transactions to a sub-optimal state. You will work with stakeholders and product owners to define capacity requirements. You will be an integral resource to the Program Architectural Review Board (ARB) in order to represent technical areas for improvement.

You will work with our production operations team, development teams, program management, and our clients to lead and facilitate short term and long term actions to resolve any performance issues. And most importantly, you will help the team to identify longer term initiatives to improve performance and reduce bottlenecks.

As the Senior Performance Engineer, you will:

• Lead the Program’s Performance Team
• Prepare Performance and Capacity Baseline Plans for the Program
• Review and interpret performance measurements from a variety of tools – Google Analytics and Introscope
• Utilize Introscope to further analyze application software service calls, Web Logic, Red Hat Linux, and network traffic to define baselines and identify variances for each software release
• Identify application software enhancements within our software development stack (application functionality, caching, SDK upgrades, etc.)
• Identify capacity thresholds in areas beyond our SDK
• Participate in our Program Architectural Review Board (ARB) to assess and review changes being recommended
• Define, aggregate and report on release performance via customized scripts prepared by the Performance Team
• Participate in stakeholder discussions to present and communicate areas for reconsideration to improve user response times
• Participate in an agile team to deliver the full lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, design, development, testing and deployment
• Recommend and implement refactoring of existing applications to incorporate best practices to improve performance
• Study the systems and components of our application to identify specific functional changes for the next release or posted to the Program Backlog
• Mentor performance engineers

• 10+ years of progressive performance engineering / analyst experience
• Highly motivated, success oriented, organized and strong work ethic
• Take pride in the quality and efficiency of your work
• Experience with and knowledge of Web software and infrastructure and processing using a Java code base
• 7+ years of system monitoring technologies and tools (e.g. Introscope, Google Analytics, AWStats, App Dynamics)
• 5+ years of conducting performance analysis and techniques that demonstrates experience and results
• 4+ years of automated tools for conducting load test measurement (e.g., Load Runner)
• Data analysis skills to aggregate data from multiple sources and prepare visuals for stakeholder consumption
• Practical experience implementing test driven design strategies, including experience with mocking/simulating external services
• Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion
• Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills are a must
• Microsoft Office knowledge of Excel, Word, and Power Point

** Must be able to obtain a Public Trust Clearance. **

• Previous experience with the Department of Veterans Affairs
• Agile team experience