Senior Performance Engineer

Senior Performance Engineer

5-8 Years Experience---Night Shift Role

Demonstrated experience within the healthcare insurance industry. Knowledge of claims systems a plus, specifically FEP claims

Knowledge of EDI specifically ANSI X.12 transactions, e.g. 834, 837, etc. would be beneficial

Infrastructure Engineer with a hands-on experience.

It is the responsibility of a Senior performance engineer to review technical aspects of the applications at the runtime in Pre-Prod & Production and identify any potential issues of inefficiencies. These skills are applied in many ways such as certification of load tests, support of production and development issues, and architectural requirements and design reviews. The ideal resource will have a very strong capacity for problem-solving, as well as a background in one or more of the following areas: Load Balancing, Java/J2EE principles, JVM and Garbage Collection tuning, infrastructure engineering, and data analysis.

Required Skills/Tools:

• Application Monitoring Tools: AppDynamics
• LPAR2RRD
• TMON

Database:

• Viewing data using tools like SQL Developer
• Executing a query/Running Explain Plan and Trace
• Getting and analyzing AWR for performance issues, validations

Data/Statistical Analysis:

• Finding min, max, average
• Plotting results and reviewing data for trends and anomalies
• Reducing a set of data to a list of distinct values

Unix/Linux Skills:

• Editing a file/Executing a shell script
• Viewing available disk space/Recommend the optimum
• Find and kill a process by process ID
• Take a heap dump/ thread dump
• Restarting a server using the command line/Consoles

Java and JVM Skills:

• Demonstrate a basic knowledge of garbage collection
• Open a Heap Dump/find Memory leak suspects
• Read a Thread Dump

This Senior Performance Engineer should possess a unique depth of technical knowledge, analytical expertise, and/or domain knowledge. They are recognized as SMEs in multiple areas and have repeatedly proven their ability to work with complete independence to identify, diagnose, and work with delivery partners to resolve performance issues, often proactively via the ability to identify subtle symptoms of potential issue.