*Title: Senior*
*Performance* *Engineer/Architect *
*Term: 12-24 *months
*Location: Washington, DC*
*Rate: Open*
*Interview Format*: 1st – Phone interview of
30-45 mins
2nd – In-person;
*Job Category*:
Infrastructure/Performance/Senior
*Senior**
Performance Engineer/Architect*
Required Skills/Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or Engineering or
equivalent work experience required.
- *# 1 must have:* Senior level understanding of mainframe application
architecture and development
- *# 1 must have: *Direct hands-on experience with performance
diagnostics, performance architecture design, performance tuning,
performance monitoring, capacity planning, and/or software development in a
n-tier environment
- *# 2 must have: *Demonstrated experience in monitoring, analyzing and
recommending solutions to performance problems in high-traffic, large-scale
distributed systems and client-server architectures
- Ability to distill volumes of data, analyze performance results, and
diagnose performance and capacity problems.
- Knowledge of and experience in IT environment (mainframe,
infrastructure, Web/Java)
- Excellent analytical skills in order to effectively analyze broadly
defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques, and
evaluation criteria to obtain the desired results.
· Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and
apply it to business needs, developing and delivering IT centric projects
using (where appropriate) leading-edge technology.
· Very good understanding of networking and architectural
frameworks and methodologies, a working knowledge of design and
implementation of systems software as well as the internals of the system
in order to produce the best possible system availability and performance.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office 2010 tool set – MS Word, MS Excel, MS
Project, MS Visio and MS PowerPoint.
- Solid teamwork and interpersonal skills, with the ability to
communicate and persuade customers, employees, and management at all levels
and thrive in a cross-functional environment.
- Excellent oral and written communications; an ability to present (5%)
and discuss technical information in a way that establishes rapport,
persuades others, and gains understanding.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple tasks and work under
pressure
- Ability to provide structure in an unstructured and rapidly changing
environment
Preferred Skills/Qualifications
- *# 1 Preferred: Progressive broad-based Information Systems Management
experience (which could include consulting) with state-of-the-art hardware
and software systems is desirable; knowledge and implementation experience
in new computing architectures and networked computing structures. *
- *# 2 Preferred: Performance/Capacity modeling will be a plus.*
- Health Care Industry experience will be a plus.
Team Dynamic: Individual contributor, no management of matrixed staff,
collaborate with Solution/Infrastructure Architects, AppDev, technicians
and some managers
*Note: *This is not a Performance tester/scripter position; although an
understanding of the Performance testing process is a plus.
Background: The FEP Operations Center is seeking a Senior Performance
Engineer/Architect to analyze, design and engineer high performing Customer
products. The candidate should have extensive experience in infrastructure,
architecture and operations support functions in a fast-paced,
time-to-market-driven environment. Demonstrated experience in the following
is strongly preferred: performance diagnostics, performance architecture
design, performance tuning, performance monitoring, capacity planning,
and/or software development in a multi-tier environment for mainframe and
midrange platforms. Tasks:
· Analyzes the design and implementation of business applications,
middleware, database, operating system, and hardware components and ensure
that all system components are designed and tuned to acceptable levels of
performance and resource utilization
· Participates in technical architecture and design discussions to
determine the most appropriate solution model taking into consideration
high performance, availability, failover and disaster recovery
· Partner with the Development, Application & Infrastructure
Architecture and Technical Services teams to ensure that changes in
technical or business systems do not adversely impact application
performance
· Ensures that capacity workload modeling and availability analysis
is performed for a variety of platforms and environments
· Serves as a technical expert to IT groups in planning the
resource requirements for systems under development. Presents statistical
availability and trend analysis and recommendations to IT management, IT
leadership, and the business, as needed.
· Serves as a technical expert resolving critical and complex
application performance issues. Identifies and drives optimization changes
in the application design to improve customer experience for
mission/business critical IT applications
· Develops, maintains, recommends, documents and supports tools and
backend utilities to perform performance and capacity planning management
· Creates and presents a Performance Planning Strategy that
outlines Current Production Workload distribution, Performance Requirements
and Test/Production Environment Requirements and Performance Optimization
results
- Performs the following Communication tasks
- Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis
- Lead, facilitate and participate in various FEPOC meetings
- Ensure effective communication within and outside of the project
team
- Report status to Resource Manager on a regular basis
- Assist Resource Manager in preparing and reporting statuses to Sr.
Management and other Project Stakeholders
Regards,
Rahman,
rahm...@usmsystems.com
703 246 1849
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