Who we are looking for

The Performance and Cloud QA Engineer Intern/Co-op to join our Performance Engineering Team, supporting our SaaS clients on their performance testing needs. They will work directly with our offshore performance engineers and will work on one or more projects at a time. This role promotes growth in Performance Engineering area as well as expertise in the financial market space.

The Ideal candidate is:

Proficient in Python and Java, with experience in writing efficient and scalable code

Passionate about Performance optimization, cloud scalability and system reliability.

Familiar with performance monitoring tools like Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, Solarwinds

Strong in troubleshooting and analyzing performance bottlenecks in cloud-based applications.

A strong problem solver and a team player able to collaborate with engineers and cloud architects

Required Skills:

• Individual contributor with hands on skills.
• Experience in Performance Engineering and cloud quality assurance.
• Cloud System Reliability Engineering, Resiliency testing and Chaos Engineering experience
• Experience with JVM monitoring and diagnostic for optimal application performance. Good understanding of GC
• Experience with Performance Analysis/Troubleshooting while providing solutions to optimize application performance.
• Knowledge of performance monitoring tools and thorough understanding of throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization
• Good understanding of memory management, multithreading, thread/connection pooling etc.
• Experience with profilers (JMeter), debuggers
• Knowledge of Java deployment structures (Jar, War…)
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Desired Skills:

• experience in Java programming
• Excellent Java Development skills with focus on core java, memory management and multithreading
• Understanding of large enterprise distributed applications and architectures
• Experience with Azure
• Experience with JMeter
• Experience with APM tools like Dynatrace, Solarwinds etc.
• Experience with SQL Server DB
• Knowledge of Virtualization tools
• Knowledge in Continuous Delivery concepts. Experience building pipelines from dev to production (Azure DevOps is preferable)
• Knowledge in Cloud concepts. Experience with deployment tools (Azure)
• Broad knowledge of development tools & techniques

Salary Range:

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Job Application Disclosure:

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