Performance Assessment Engineer (Top Secret)

MKS2 Technologies, LLC, an award-winning high growth small business, creates innovative and customer-centric technology solutions in the areas of Cyber Security, Instructional Design and Training, Software Engineering and IT Support Services to improve the security and well-being of our clients. Our commitment to excellence and our “Mission First” orientation has resulted in steady growth and an expanding client base across government agencies. We have employees nationwide and for the past three consecutive years were named one of the fastest growing Veteran-owned companies in the nation. Please take a moment to browse through our website and learn more about what it means to serve with MKS2.

Performance Assessment Engineer

Location: Huntsville, AL
Work Type: Full-Time | On-Site
Clearance Required: Top Secret
DoD 8570 Requirement: None

JOB SUMMARY

The Performance Assessment Engineer is responsible for developing, maintaining, and evolving software tools and analysis capabilities used to assess and analyze system performance. This role focuses on performance‑oriented software development, automation, data analysis, and collaboration across engineering teams to generate actionable performance insights that support mission‑critical decision‑making.

SUMMARY OF ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Develop software solutions focused on post‑processing analysis tools and visualizations used to assess system performance

• Write high‑performance Java and Python code to support analysis, tooling, and automation efforts

• Refactor legacy software components to improve scalability, latency, and resource utilization

• Conduct deep‑dive performance studies and generate actionable insights

• Recommend architectural or algorithmic improvements based on performance findings

• Maintain, evolve, and troubleshoot the Jenkins and HTCondor automation platform, including pipeline jobs, scripts, and plugins

• Collaborate with cross‑functional engineering teams to understand and perform high‑level performance analysis

• Create analysis documentation, technical briefings, and present findings to stakeholders

• Maintain and update analysis utilities, visualization dashboards, and data exploration notebooks

• Ensure analysis tools and artifacts are well documented and kept current

• Translate existing MATLAB‑based tools into Java and Python implementations

• Stay current with emerging Java and Python performance techniques, CI/CD tools, and database technologies, and proactively introduce improvements

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Software development experience focused on performance analysis and assessment tooling

• Proficiency in Java and Python development

• Experience refactoring legacy code to improve performance, scalability, and efficiency

• Experience developing analysis tools, visualizations, or post‑processing utilities

• Experience creating technical documentation and briefing analysis results

• Ability to collaborate across engineering teams to support performance assessment activities

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience OR

• Master’s degree with 3+ years of relevant experience

LOCATION

• Full-Time / On-Site

• Huntsville, AL

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: MKS2 Technologies is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.