Application Performance Engineer

Title:  Application Performance  Engineer
Position: Contract
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Duration: Long term
Phone and face to face
Rate: 50c2c

Dear Associate,

Applications Performance Engineer

The client is seeking to fill the newly created role of Application Performance Tools Engineer.  This position will work closely with the following teams:

-          Network, Infrastructure
-          Database
-          Application Engineering
-          Development Operations.

Here is a detailed description of the role/responsibilities:

Key Accountability
•             Development Operations:
o             Identify & prioritize software performance issues to improve code base performance, reduce resource consumption and shorten request latency.
o             Use DynaTrace to create application monitoring dashboards, reports & alerts for production operations.
o             Provide for end-to-end root cause analysis and reporting on production incidents.
•             Performance Analysis
o             Create application performance models & identify key-performance indicators
o             Identify & Report application performance across production applications through weekly reporting to Executive Teams and Domain Leads.
•             Capacity Planning
o             Design tests to determine scaling & cost analysis across all production applications
o             Run capacity and performance experiments to determine scaling and utilization parameters for various service tiers.
o             Create capacity planning, cost analysis models & roadmaps for weekly reporting to Executive Teams and Domain Leads.
o             Identify & Prioritize infrastructure related capacity issues work with the appropriate teams to analyze & provide remediation planning.
In terms of skills requirements:
•             5+ years of experience with Java
o             Must have experience with connection pooling, multi-threading and synchronization concepts, and Java memory management including garbage collection algorithms and heap parameters
•             Experience with JConsole, JProfile & Dynatrace or other APM preferred
•             2+ years of experience with at least one infrastructure domain (e.g., server, network, etc.)
•             Excellent written and oral communication skills.



Thanks and Warm Regards,

Selvi Mathanbrabhu
Talent Specialist | E: Selvi@optimalbg.com | P: 301.710.6248 | C: Optimal Business Group, Inc