Java Performance Engineer

· Experience and understanding of architectural principles and frameworks (MVC, Spring and Hibernate preferred)

· Hands on experience with J2EE application deployment technology.

· Thorough knowledge with J2EE application platform configuration and performance optimization

· Provides subject matter expertise in performance monitoring, tuning, analysis and diagnostics

· Partners with the application architects to identify specific infrastructure components (hardware, software, database, etc.) for architectural and tuning improvements; define and document volumetric requirements across a variety of functional domains.

· Partners with key stakeholders to conduct code reviews, technical specification reviews and define architecture to improve network and system performance

· Conducts technical assessment as part of a proof of concept

· Develops and communicates performance, load and stress testing goals, priorities, and status.

· Performs software system performance analysis, including analysis of application design, coding, and validation of performance results; ensures all test specifications are implemented correctly

· Develops metrics for monitoring increased performance and scalability.

· Provides guidance for performance test initiatives that take a true end-to-end focus on ensuring client side, server tiers, database and data integration jobs are performing as expected

· Conducts performance prototyping, system capacity modelling and projections, performance driven design, application profiling and base-lining to measure and improve system performance

· Troubleshoots performance, load , and stress testing through analysis of system design/coding

· Evaluate and research emerging performance tuning methodologies, monitoring tools, processes and technologies

· Proactively develops and implements organization-wide quality process initiatives to manage and improve infrastructure performance.

· Recommends best practices and ensure adherence to the best practices

· Provides training/mentoring/educating of team members

· Provides oversight and guidance in the formal test execution process

· Works collaboratively with other project team members and independently on assigned tasks and deliverables with minimum supervision

Mandatory Skills: 

scalability, dynatrace, appdynamics, jvisualvm, jprobe, wily introscope