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 fast‑paced, with team members situated in 4 different locations.Job DescriptionIn your role as a Senior Performance Engineer, you will lead efforts to predict transaction workload and identify software, systems and network integration to optimize throughput 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.ResponsibilitiesLead the Program's Performance TeamPrepare Performance and Capacity Baseline Plans for the ProgramReview and interpret performance measurements from a variety of tools – Google Analytics and IntroscopeUtilize 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 releaseIdentify application software enhancements within our software development stack (application functionality, caching, SDK upgrades, etc.)Identify capacity thresholds in areas beyond our SDKParticipate in our Program Architectural Review Board (ARB) to assess and review changes being recommendedDefine, aggregate and report on release performance via customized scripts prepared by the Performance TeamParticipate in stakeholder discussions to present and communicate areas for reconsideration to improve user response timesParticipate in an agile team to deliver the full lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, design, development, testing and deploymentRecommend and implement refactoring of existing applications to incorporate best practices to improve performanceStudy the systems and components of our application to identify specific functional changes for the next release or posted to the Program BacklogMentor performance engineersQualifications10+ years of progressive performance engineering / analyst experienceHighly motivated, success‑oriented, organized and strong work ethicTake pride in the quality and efficiency of your workExperience with and knowledge of Web software and infrastructure and processing using a Java code base7+ years of system monitoring technologies and tools (e.g. Introscope, Google Analytics, AWStats, AppDynamics)5+ years of conducting performance analysis and techniques that demonstrates experience and results4+ years of automated tools for conducting load test measurement (e.g., LoadRunner)Data analysis skills to aggregate data from multiple sources and prepare visuals for stakeholder consumptionPractical experience implementing test driven design strategies, including experience with mocking/simulating external servicesAdvanced knowledge of software development lifecycleDemonstrated ability to coordinate cross‑functional work teams toward task completionDemonstrated effective leadership and analytical skillsAdvanced written and verbal communication skills are a mustMicrosoft Office knowledge of Excel, Word, and PowerPointMust be able to obtain a Public Trust Clearance.Additional InformationPrevious experience with the Department of Veterans AffairsAgile team experience#J-18808-Ljbffr