Performance Test Engineer
Location
Virginia
Posted
14 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Performance Test Engineer
SES Corporation
This program provides IT services focused on building, securing, and operating the Department of Veteran Affairs LGY’s home loan product-line technology. The contract’s purpose is to modernize and sustain critical home loan technology systems that support LGY’s delivery of mortgage-related services to program stakeholders, to provide continuous delivery and security integration. **Position Description:** The Performance Developer will support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Loan Guaranty Service (LGY). The Performance developer will be responsible for building the observability & monitoring artifacts, telemetry and logging that supports serverless system performance, diagnosing performance bottlenecks, and supporting performance optimization efforts across the LGY platform. The Performance Developer will not just write Lambda code, they will own the engineering pattern for how LGY Lambda services are built, instrumented with AWS ADOT, deployed through CI/CD, tested, and monitored in Dynatrace & Splunk. This role works closely with development first and then assists operations teams to ensure system performance scalability, and reliability across Salesforce and AWS-based integration services. The ideal candidate must have development experience working with API-driven systems, cloud infrastructure, and performance monitoring tools to develop & analyze telemetry, logs, and system metrics to identify and resolve performance issues.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field or equivalent professional experience and 3-7 years of experience.
- Development background experience with Nodejs and Python on serverless architecture. THIS IS A MUST
- Years of experience in performance engineering, application performance monitoring, or system performance analysis.
- Experience with Dynatrace and Splunk
- Experience analyzing application performance metrics and system telemetry.
- Must be able to decipher code for troubleshooting performance issues in API-driven or distributed systems.
- Familiarity with cloud-based environments such as AWS.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working with monitoring tools and log analysis platforms.
- Preferred Skills**
- Experience supporting VA or federal government IT systems.
- Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, and cloud monitoring tools.
- Familiarity with Salesforce-based applications and enterprise API integrations.
- Experience supporting systems that process sensitive or regulated data.
Benefits
- SES provides a competitive salary and the following benefits:**
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- AD&D
- STD
- LTD
- Company paid Life Insurance
- 401k with employer contribution
- Paid Time Off
- Pet Insurance
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