Systems Engineer (Performance Engineering)

AutoZone•Memphis, TN

About The Position

The Systems Engineer (Performance Engineering) is responsible for creating and implementing performance test plans to evaluate system operations and detect performance bottlenecks. You will analyze CPU usage, memory usage, and other performance metrics of underlying infrastructure. This Systems Engineer will collaborate across teams to determine appropriate performance SLAs. You will identify performance and process improvement areas; determine appropriate tests and monitoring strategies for applications; and analyze performance by measuring the relationship between end-to-end performance, user behavior, and business goals to maximize the business ROI and increase efficiency. You will be responsible for conducting chaos testing and designing test scenarios to replicate production issues in lower/performance testing environments. This Systems Engineer will define and follow resilience and reliability best practices as well as develop a Performance Test Strategy, script & execute Performance Tests, perform root cause analysis, and provide mitigation. You will plan and manage deliverables for capacity planning and performance diagnostics, architecture design, tuning, and monitoring; conduct system security, performance, and stress testing; analyze test results; and recommend action plans. You will also perform web and mobile application penetration testing as well as network penetration testing (external & internal), including vulnerabilities, documenting technical issues identified during security assessments. Other responsibilities include mentoring junior team members and providing technical assistance to improve system performance, capacity, reliability, and scalability.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science, or related
5 years of performance engineering experience
Performance testing for web applications and middleware systems
Chaos engineering and testing
Infrastructure management in on-premises and cloud environments
LoadRunner, JMeter, and BlazeMeter
Python, code profiling, and observability tools
Data mining, Splunk and Dynatrace
CPU utilization, JVM tuning, memory analysis, thread management, query performance optimization
UNIX, Linux, Windows, Java, MS SQL, C, C++, Python, ATG, QT4, Oracle, Excel macros, APIGEE, PingIdentity, Kafka, TCP/IP, and LAN monitoring

Responsibilities

Creating and implementing performance test plans to evaluate system operations and detect performance bottlenecks.
Analyzing CPU usage, memory usage, and other performance metrics of underlying infrastructure.
Collaborating across teams to determine appropriate performance SLAs.
Identifying performance and process improvement areas.
Determining appropriate tests and monitoring strategies for applications.
Analyzing performance by measuring the relationship between end-to-end performance, user behavior, and business goals to maximize the business ROI and increase efficiency.
Conducting chaos testing and designing test scenarios to replicate production issues in lower/performance testing environments.
Defining and following resilience and reliability best practices.
Developing a Performance Test Strategy.
Scripting and executing Performance Tests.
Performing root cause analysis and providing mitigation.
Planning and managing deliverables for capacity planning and performance diagnostics, architecture design, tuning, and monitoring.
Conducting system security, performance, and stress testing.
Analyzing test results and recommending action plans.
Performing web and mobile application penetration testing.
Performing network penetration testing (external & internal), including vulnerabilities.
Documenting technical issues identified during security assessments.
Mentoring junior team members.
Providing technical assistance to improve system performance, capacity, reliability, and scalability.