Performance Architect

Performance Architect

Location: South London

Salary: £75k-£80k + Benefits

The role:

To support process owners by documenting processes, archiving, and managing process models as well as documenting key work-products such as performance risk and issues, performance activity plans, performance- and scalability requirements.

You will do this by:

• Leading initiatives to improve performance testing so that there no longer are performance bottlenecks
• Leading initiatives to improve application performance monitoring
• Reviewing existing and ongoing performance test activities
• Coaching and mentoring engineers on the importance of performance testing
• Liaising with stakeholders from multiple teams
• Presenting information clearly at different levels

The Right Experience

Practical knowledge and experience in

• Performance architecture & design
• Performance using Gatling, The Grinder, JMeter, Locust, LoadRunner
• Database performance-testing including distributed storage systems
• Debugging/logging tools, like; dynatrace, MySQL Profiler, Retrace, Xdebug, Xhprof
• Programming languages, like; PHP, Python, Ruby
• Working with the performance monitoring and tuning
• Continuous Delivery/Deployment
• Cloud Computing
• Quantifying complex performance bottlenecks spanning potentially multiple physical and logical components

The Right Person Fit

• Brimming with enthusiasm
• Very much an ideas-person!
• Apt at hitting the ground running - experience in start- and scale-up organisations previously will help there
• Performance coach-led - effective mentor
• Strong aptitude to learn and adapt to new technologies and processes
• Collaborative, visionary and a strong authority in performance
• Strong analysis skills both business and technical.
• Ability to drive a collaborative approach across business functions, and external partners
• Good stakeholder management influencing skills.

T: 07599503704

E: sam.shinner@hendersonscott.com