DescriptionAs a Performance Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Infrastructure Platforms (IP) organization, you provide expertise and engineering excellence in the software development life cycle to ensure that applications, hardware, and systems are optimized for performance and user experience. Leverage your advanced technical capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes across various technologies to support one or more of the firm’s business objectives. Use your passion to solve customer challenges while bringing down the total cost of ownership.
Job responsibilities
- Understand the wide variety of internal & external products across compute, storage, network, database, and middleware to identify bottlenecks in architecture, design, and code.
- Monitor and collect performance statistics and analyze product performance and scalability across a variety of hardware, software, and configurations.
- Anticipate and Identify issues - Performance Engineers look for potential problems that could negatively impact performance and work to eliminate or mitigate them.
- Plan and develop methodologies for standard performance benchmarks and comparisons.
- Design, develop and implement tools to automate performance measurement and analysis.
- Develop process to track ROI and application TCO.
- Profile application performance and recommend appropriate hardware solutions for various application profiles.
- Use a variety of tools and programs to test and analyze code, as an expert in designing, running, and interpreting test results.
- Act as performance advisors within teams to find the best way to scale infrastructure ensuring that performance considerations are integrated into development practices.
- Influences leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on system design, application development, testing, and operational stability concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ year of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization
- Experience working with modern private & public cloud infrastructure platforms.
- 8 years of hands-on experience in performance troubleshooting skills
- Optimize software solutions for execution speed, memory efficiency and communication latency.
- Experienced in both Linux and Windows operating systems, a broad variety of databases, and infrastructure across compute, network and storage.
- Benchmark performance metrics for any given business case.
- Strong communication skills with ability to present, and effectively communicate with Senior Leaders and Executives. Experience in influencing engineers and leaders.
- Experience creating, tracking, measuring, and interpreting Key Performance Indicators as a basis for developing performance recommendations and roadmaps.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in Infrastructure Architecture designs.
- Direct experience in Performance Engineering.
- Experience working in a consultancy, proposal development, and engagement delivery.
- Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practice.
- Published research papers, industry articles, and product performance technical papers.
