Application Performance Engineer
About The Position
We are seeking a highly technical Application Performance Engineering professional to support and expand enterprise-wide observability capabilities. The individual will work closely with development teams, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance. This role is highly hands-on and focuses on Dynatrace, Elastic, OpenTelemetry, monitoring strategy, distributed tracing, synthetic monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis. The successful candidate will help developers interpret performance issues, investigate production incidents, analyze logs and traces, implement monitoring solutions, and drive proactive observability practices across the organization. The environment is heavily Microsoft-based and runs primarily within Azure.
Requirements
- Minimum of five (5) + years’ professional relevant experience and Bachelor’s Degree in CS, CIS, or related discipline preferred
- Minimum one (1) + years of recent and relevant experience in an information systems management role (with direct reports) having responsibility for engineering or support.
- Experience or certification with Dynatrace or Elastic is a must
- Deep and proven knowledge and experience in at least two of the following technologies (vendor certifications are preferred): Servers and Storage technologies including Cisco UCS and NetApp or Pure Storage technology stack, Virtualization technologies, including service automation using VMWare and Nutanix, SQL database technology in a larger enterprise environment with complex replication strategies, Unified Communications technologies including web, audio and video conferencing
Nice To Haves
- Experience or certification with Microsoft Azure is a plus.
- Experience with Artificial Intelligence is a plus. (Devin AI is even better)
Responsibilities
- Support and expand enterprise-wide observability capabilities.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance.
- Help developers interpret performance issues.
- Investigate production incidents.
- Analyze logs and traces.
- Implement monitoring solutions.
- Drive proactive observability practices across the organization.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including Medical/Dental/Vision
- Wellness program to support both mental and physical health
- Generous paid time off for both exempt and non-exempt positions
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
