Company Name: FMR LLC d/b/a Fidelity Investments
Job Title: Senior Performance Engineer
Work Site: 100-300 New Millennium Way, Durham, NC 27709

Position Description:

Develops and designs performance characterization strategies for financial applications. Gathers and compares quantitative data using performance benchmarking tools -- LoadRunner, CloudTest, and JMeter. Monitors and analyzes performance metrics and application logs. Builds automation pipelines using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) frameworks. Builds large-scale end-to-end systems with application server technologies -- Tomcat, Node, and Apache.

Primary Responsibilities:

Identifies performance bottlenecks and makes tuning recommendations.
Triages defects with development partners and project management teams.
Ensures timely escalation of critical issues to development, project, and performance engineering teams.
Prepares and communicates performance results to management.
Develops original and creative technical solutions to support on-going development efforts.
Designs applications or subsystems on major projects involving multiple platforms and supporting a range of divisional initiatives.
Supports and performs all phases of testing leading to implementation.
Analyzes information to determine, recommend, and plan computer software specifications on major projects and proposes modifications and improvements based on user need.
Develops software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation.


Education and Experience:

No degree and five (5) years of experience as a Senior Performance Engineer (or related occupation) performing software performance engineering on high volume, online financial systems in a DevOps environment.

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and three (3) years of experience as a Senior Performance Engineer (or related occupation)performing software performance engineering on high volume, online financial systems in a DevOps environment.

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and one (1) year of experience as a Senior Performance Engineer (or related occupation) performing software performance engineering on high volume, online financial systems in a DevOps environment.


Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) performing software performance benchmarking and performance engineering of online financial Web applications, APIs, and Mobile transactions according to DevOps engineering practices, using performance benchmarking tools -- Akamai CloudTest, LoadRunner, and JMeter; and configuring Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) and test automation, using Jenkins, Sonar, Ant, Maven, Artifactory, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

DE analyzing and monitoring hardware system performance metrics -- CPU/memory, heap, and Garbage Collections (GC) -- across Apache, NGINX, Java, and Node.js software platforms; instrumenting and monitoring operating systems -- Linux and Windows -- using Linux console and monitoring tools -- Splunk, Datadog, and IBM ISA; and analyzing performance across applications hosted on external Cloud solution providers -- AWS -- using AWS Console and CloudWatch.

DE researching performance bottlenecks to provide tuning recommendations using APM tools -- Dynatrace, NewRelic, and DataDog APM; and performing capacity planning to advocate CPU sizing, memory, and process configuration management, using APM tools.

DE forecasting and coordinating work intake across Scrum teams and orchestrating the testing of financial software products, using Jira; and providing performance tool (CloudTest and Jenkins) trainings.

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For full job details and to apply, please visit https://jobs.fidelity.com and search for job number 2093563