p>This role is responsible for leading on conducting supply/demand, trend analyses and makes proactive capacity planning recommendations to mitigate risk and rationalize the optimal amount of resources to meet business needs, service level requirements and growth capacity.

Responsibilities


Monitors, measures and reports production performance and reliability
Support Product teams in assessing release performance and reliability
Identifies instrumentation requirements for applications
Performs capacity trending analysis and planning
Gathers product usage projections and assesses impacts
Provides capacity assessment support for business case and special project analysis
Designs and runs load tests to develop data on performance, capacity and stability
Troubleshoots capacity/performance problems in all domains
Develops key metrics for measuring and monitoring performance and capacity
Develops, implements and maintains system performance monitoring solutions, performance test strategies and plans, and reporting systems
Participates in technical architecture discussions to determine the most appropriate scalable model taking into consideration high availability, failover and disaster recovery
Serves as a subject matter expert to application engineering and other technical and business staff in planning the resource requirements for products under development
Contribute to the definition and implementation of performance SLAs (Service Level Agreements).
Stay up-to-date with the latest performance testing tools and methodologies.
May provide guidance/training to staff

Requirements

Demonstrable experience leading in defining performance test strategies and plans, capacity monitoring and planning and relevant tool selection
Demonstrable experience of testing against large globally available multi-site hosting platforms
A deep understanding of product drivers and instrumentation
Typically possesses 5-7 years of relevant work experience
Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field of work or equivalent work experience

Technologies

Languages - DotNet/c#
Load Testing - Gatling, Real User Monitoring
Instrumentation - Splunk, or similar
Cloud - AWS
Environment - Linux/Windows