DevOps Performance Engineer

The Opportunity

“A DevOps role at FICO is an opportunity to work with cutting edge cloud technologies with a team focused on delivery of secure cloud solutions and products to enterprise customers.” - VP, DevOps Engineering

What You’ll Contribute

• Collaborate in a devops environment where you will work closely with developers in automating new applications, features, and services.
• Support enterprise standards around technology, security compliance and systems interoperability for FICO products/solutions.
• Assist in developing scripts to automate development operations functions or processes –Cloud Infrastructure Automation & Orchestration.
• Research and implement automation tools to replace existing manual processes and maintenance tasks.
• Collaborate with other engineers on design, analysis, architecture/modeling, implementation, unit testing, code reviews and process enhancements.
• Optimize performance and scalability as necessary to meet business goals.
• Deliver customer solutions using open source and commercial technologies.
• Deliver full automation pipeline using CI/CD/DevOps concepts, tools and technologies (Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, Git/Stash, Nexus, Puppet/Chef).
• At least 3+ years of experience with performance test simulations, performance analysis, and performance monitoring.
• Design, maintain and enhance performance testing framework components.
• Develop a comprehensive performance testing strategy, including detailed Non-Functional Requirements (NFR). Translate the requirements into appropriate test scenarios.
• Create LoadRunner scripts with Rest API and Web protocols.
• Jmeter and K6 tools experience required
• Design, script and execute load, stress and endurance testing and deliver comprehensive reports to the project team.
• Review, analyse and document test results and metrics with recommendations to the engineering leaders and senior managers of the engineering team.
• Develop and execute performance test scripts using Gatling, leveraging advanced custom coding capabilities. Knowledge of LoadRunner, JMeter, K6, or similar tools with advanced custom coding skills is beneficial.
• Have exposure to Monitoring tools like AppDynamics, Grafana, Splunk and Datadog to monitor and enhance application performance.
• Implement chaos testing to evaluate system resilience and robustness under adverse conditions.
• Hands-on Experience in Agile Scrum and Waterfall Software Development Lifecycle.
• Well versed in using Continuous Integration and Continuous Development tools, like Jenkins / GitHub Actions or any other.
• Able to manage multiple work streams, independent, able to communicate well in both written and spoken form.
• Broad experience working in cross-functional teams to drive product development.
• Experience in creating test strategy and test plans, and executing performance and load testing activities for large-scale, enterprise-class applications.
• Experience in designing and developing automated reporting. Automate repetitive manual tasks to improve efficiency and streamline performance testing processes.
• Willing to work in a highly dynamic environment with tight deadlines and ever changing priorities.

What We’re Seeking

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• Experience in a computer engineering position or related occupation.
• 5+ years of overall experience
• The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with performance testing tools, monitoring tools, automation tools, Java profiling, and technical analysis.
• This role requires operational exposure to DevOps and CI/CD. Develop a technical and functional grasp of our product architecture. Participate in the continuing performance enhancement of our products.
• Experience operating highly-available, redundant, public cloud architectures solutions utilizing IaaS and PaaS.
• Drive engineering automation from CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, monitoring & alerting to developer support.
• Willingness to work in US shift

Our Offer to You

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.