Performance Engineer - Contract - W2 Only - Remote - Ampcus Incorporated

Performance Engineer
 
This posting is for a W-2 employee only. Staffing company candidates and independent contractors will not be considered. All work under this opportunity will be performed in the United States.
 
Open to Remote: Core Hours - 8:30-5pm EST/CST, M-F

Duties:

• Provide expert content/professional leadership on complex infrastructure assignments/projects.
• Serve as a technical consultant responsible for the design, engineering, and development of information technology solutions.
• Support the design, analysis, development, and implementation of engineering infrastructure solutions for projects and/or work requests for complex business solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure compatibility issues based on system architecture, project requirements, customer expectations, etc.
• Create design specifications and develop and apply utility programs.
• Resolve infrastructure compatibility problems as they arise.
• Perform risk assessments, partner on capacity planning, budget forecasting, and diagnose and correct application/network problems.
• Serve as the primary contact for vendors.
• Work with technologies spanning mainframe, midrange, desktop, server, network data, voice, messaging, web, database, and output/receiving.
• Exercise considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives.
• Use deep professional knowledge and acumen to advise functional leaders.
• Focus on providing thought leadership within infrastructure engineering but work on broader projects that require an understanding of wider business.
• Be recognized internally as a subject matter expert.

 
The ideal candidate will have a passion for taking on performance analysis and code optimization challenges across multiple application domains, focusing on the following objectives:

• End-to-End Performance Analysis: Analyze enterprise-level distributed environments and optimize performance bottlenecks in both our real-time data streaming and ETL warehouse application stacks.
• Capacity Planning & Optimization: Strategize capacity needs, identify trends, and propose design recommendations to ensure resiliency and scalability.
• Environment Ownership: Manage and support the performance testing environment, and drive initiatives that lead to optimal throughput and improved customer experiences.
• Automate for Performance: Design and build efficient processes and automation tests for every release build.
• Developer Support: Provide diagnostics, reverse-engineer microservices, and develop NeoLoad/JMeter scripts to deliver performance outcomes at scale.

 
Required Skills:

• BS or higher in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years in a performance engineering role analyzing, troubleshooting, and automating performance workloads on large-scale systems.
• 5+ years of experience with build automation tools utilizing CI/CD pipelines.
• Deep knowledge of Java and its internals (e.g., JVM performance tuning, GC mechanisms, etc.) and familiarity with Java profiling (e.g., JProfiler, YourKit, Glowroot).
• Outstanding attention to detail and communication skills.
• Experience identifying bottlenecks across various layers of web application stacks (client, network, backend).
• Hands-on experience with load testing tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, and other open-source products.
• Experience working and optimizing large-scale distributed applications on hybrid cloud platforms.
• Experience building frameworks and driving architecture design for testability.
• Expert-level understanding of key performance metrics associated with throughput, latency, memory, CPU, disk, and network, and the ability to debug bottlenecks associated with any of them.
• Expertise with Oracle, NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis), and SQL Server database analysis and tuning.
• Thorough knowledge of OpenShift or similar experience in containerized design patterns.
• Experience with Fuse, Kafka, and other Red Hat products preferred.
• History of migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud is a plus.

 
Tools:

• YourKit, JProfiler, Glowroot, Dynatrace, TeamQuest, JProbe, Sitescope, Splunk, Memory Analyzer, TDA, LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad, Gatling, CA Wily Introscope, Grafana, IBM GC Analyzer.

 
Cloud & DevOps:

• AWS API Gateway, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Console, AWS Lambda, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EC2 Compute Service, Amazon Route 53, Aurora, Amazon EBS, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Fargate, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), DynamoDB, and Terraform (IaC).

For more information please contact Tom Mazzulla at  tmazzulla@itechsolutions.com

Since 1995, iTech Solutions Inc., has been providing IT Consulting and Direct Hire Services to the Insurance, Financial, Communications, Manufacturing  and Government sectors with local offices in Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado,  Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Jersey / Pennsylvania area. 

Our recruiting strategy is simple, if you want to find qualified IT professionals then use IT professionals to find them.   So at iTech Solutions,  our personnel are all career IT professionals with a wide range of IT experience.  We can honestly say our staff understands the technologies, the complexities of finding and selecting the appropriate personnel and the pressures of running successful IT projects.  

Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.