Job Title: Performance Engineering Architect

Location: Southlake, TX

Duration: 12 Months

Rate: $80/hr. on C2C All Inclusive

Key Responsibilities:

· Architecture & Strategy Define performance engineering strategy across application, API, data, and infrastructure layers

· Establish nonfunctional requirements (NFRs) for latency, throughput, availability, and scalability

· Design performance first architectures for cloud native and hybrid environments

· Lead capacity planning, traffic modeling, and peak load forecasting

Performance Engineering & Testing

· Architect and govern load, stress, endurance, spike, and chaos testing frameworks

· Design reusable performance test harnesses for microservices, eventdriven, and streaming systems

· Identify system bottlenecks across compute, network, storage, and data layers

· Drive shiftleft performance testing within CI/CD pipelines

Cloud & Platform Optimization:

· Optimize systems in GCP using autoscaling, caching, and resource rightsizing

· Architect performance strategies for Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration

· Optimize API gateways, message brokers (Kafka/PubSub), and data platforms

· Guide performance tuning for Databases, Data Lakes, and Streaming Platforms

Observability & Reliability:

· Observability standards using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch

· Correlate performance metrics with business KPIs and customer experience

· Partner with SRE teams on SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

· Lead performance triage during major incidents and IROPs

Technical Skills:

· Performance engineering tools: JMeter, Appscan, Dynatrace, Gatling, k6

· Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP

· Containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Istio/Linkerd

· Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK

· Messaging & streaming: Kafka, PubSub, Event Hubs

· Data platforms: Relational, NoSQL, Data Lakes, Distributed Caches

· Programming/scripting: Java, Python, JavaScript, Shell

Keys:

· Code optimizations

· Code refinement

· API refinement

· Design improvement

· AppDynamics

· Appscan

· Dynatrace

· Performance monitoring

· Prometheus/Grafana

Preferred (Good to have)

· Java

· Legacy

· TPF

· Avoid testing candidates.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $80.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Experience:

AppDynamics: 6 years (Required)
Performance Engineer: 10 years (Required)
Dynatrace: 5 years (Required)
Code refinement: 5 years (Required)

Ability to Commute:

Southlake, TX (Required)

Work Location: In person

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