Senior Software Engineer - OpenShift/ Kubernetes Performance and Scale

Job description

What you will do

• Work closely with management, product owners, developers, and quality engineers to understand product requirements and build suitable performance test plans to verify OpenShifts performance and scalability limits
• Develop sophisticated tests that perform user workload simulations through comprehensive end-to-end automation, leveraging custom built and state of the art open source tools and frameworks
• Improve existing frameworks for automated continuous performance testing and develop new features that help with automatic performance regression identification
• Deep dive into performance issues with the intent of discovering their root cause on complex distributed systems deployed on cloud infrastructure
• Design and develop monitoring and reporting tools to do performance and scale tests and analysis
• Document your research and results clearly and concisely, and communicate findings both internally and externally

What you will bring

• Masters Degree in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of experience in performance engineering or systems/software engineering or Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field and 7+years of experience in performance engineering or systems/software engineering
• Demonstrable experience or understanding and passion for performance engineering
• Strong programming, debugging, and profiling skills
• Experience with CI/CD systems and frameworks
• Hands-on experience with performance measurement, analysis, and optimization
• Experience with distributed systems
• Very strong Linux system administration and system engineering skills
• Solid scripting skills, particularly with Bash, Python, or Ansible
• Experience working with public clouds like AWS, Azure, GCP or IBM Cloud
• Knowledge of database fundamentals
• Experience analyzing and interpreting large volumes of test results and succinctly communicating findings through easy to understand graphs/charts
• Experience with collaborative software development methodologies, tools and version control
• Knowledge of statistical analysis and experimental design techniques
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work with independence and to proactively seek collaboration

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with container technologies like podman or docker and familiarity with building container images
• Working knowledge of Kuberentes or OpenShift
• Experience with system performance engineering and metrics collection tools like iostat, vmstat, sar, perf, and prometheus
• Familiarity with monitoring and dashboarding tools like Prometheus and Grafana
• Record of contributing to an open source project
• Presentation skills and public speaking skills for conferences and demonstrations.