Principal Performance Engineer

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Principal Performance Engineer

Apply locations Galway, Ireland time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id 2093057

Job Description:

Are you striving to be the best engineer that you can be? Are you interested in joining a team that is building a next generation platform for one of the most strategic technology platforms in Fidelity? We (Retail Managed Accounts) are building out a new platform as part of the evolution of Fidelity’s Managed Accounts offering. This will be one of the rare career opportunities where you get to experience the newest technologies on a greenfield project. We are seeking an individual with a strong background in performance testing and has knowledge of multiple application infrastructures.

The  Expertise We’re Looking For

• Experience working with a large-scale engineering team defining and developing performance test strategies 
• Expert in defining fundamental design principles for building a scalable application on cloud infrastructure like AWS
• Deep knowledge of middleware Java stack, Oracle, messaging technologies and web containers
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced Agile software delivery environment, with exposure to continuous integration and continuous delivery tools.

The  Purpose of Your Role

You will work with your squad to develop test strategies using project artifacts as well as in depth interviews of architects and development leads to assure capacity and stability of the applications meets requirements for production deployment. Assist the team in defining SLA’s for various functional components in the platform and communicating performance testing results and identify areas for improvement with stakeholders.

The  Skills You Bring

• Excellent analytical skills and extensive troubleshooting experience of performance throughput issues.
• You have experience with enterprise cloud enabled distributed systems.
• Thorough understanding of distributed systems, Internet principles and statistical data analysis
• Ability to identify application bottlenecks and assist engineers with improving application performance and reducing latency
• Extensive experience with Dynatrace or similar, Datadog & Splunk

The  Value You Deliver

• You will participate in design and implementation of software solutions and ensure they meet non-functional requirements and that are aligned to the program’s strategic direction.
• You will ensure that component and system level SLA’s for a mission critical platform are adhered to.
• You will engage with a global team of engineers in leading best practices for performance engineering.

How Your work Impacts the Organization

The position aligns to Strategic Advisors Technology (SAT) division of Asset Management Technology (AMT) which provides worldwide technology and support to the Investment Management, Research, Trading and Investment Operations functions. SAT provides the technology platforms for our investment community to build and support our Managed Accounts Product Offering.

Category:

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