Performance Tester / Platform Engineer
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Performance Tester/Platform Engineer building automated testing and cloud platforms for GDIT’s US Courts case-management modernization. Monitoring performance, optimizing systems, and supporting secure government workloads.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain automated performance testing frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native applications
- Define and track performance KPIs including response time, throughput, resource utilization, latency, and error rates
- Conduct load, stress, and scalability testing under multi-tenant and concurrent-user conditions
- Develop and manage performance dashboards and provide executive- and technical-level reporting
- Perform real-time monitoring, observability, and telemetry setup for application and infrastructure performance
- Collaborate with developers, QA, SREs, and operations teams to identify bottlenecks and recommend optimizations
- Validate critical workflows and use cases, including long-running queries, search operations, and API endpoints
- Capture and report CPU, memory, disk, network, and application-specific log metrics
- Contribute performance content to Monthly Status Reports and sprint-level documentation
- Align performance testing strategy with DevSecOps and MLOps processes
- Develop and execute formal performance test plans
- Compose and maintain comprehensive test plans and reports
- Verify and validate functionality against system requirements
- Support IaaS and PaaS cloud solution resources for secure sensitive workloads
- Design and implement server, network, and software configurations for cloud infrastructure and applications using DevOps principles
- Work as part of an agile development team supporting modernization of enterprise-class software applications for the US Courts’ Case Management Modernization Program
Requirements:
- Bachelor of Science
- 5+ years of related experience
- At least 1 year deploying and managing applications and systems to commercial and private clouds
- Experience in performance engineering and automated testing of cloud-based applications and platforms
- Strong knowledge of JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, BlazeMeter, or k6
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions
- Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch, or Elastic Stack
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or JavaScript
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices testing strategies
- Strong understanding of AWS, Azure, or GCP performance characteristics
- Experience with telemetry frameworks and logging standards
- Ability to analyze large volumes of test data, identify trends, and drive root cause identification and tuning
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams and participating in sprint ceremonies
- Experience implementing DevSecOps using GitOps or similar tools
- Experience developing, testing, and maintaining containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.
- Working knowledge of source version control and build/release tools and methodologies
- Extensive hands-on experience with test planning, test case/script writing, test case automation, performance test execution, and performance test result analysis
- Familiarity with SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS concepts and practices
- Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure migration methodologies and application migrations to AWS or Azure
- Ability to obtain a position of Public Trust with the Administrative Office of the US Courts
- Must be a US Person: Green Card Holder, US Permanent Resident Alien, Refugee, Asylee, or US Citizen
- Less than 10% travel required
Benefits:
- Comprehensive medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Full-flex work weeks where possible
- Vacation, sick, personal, holiday, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave
- Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees
- Short- and long-term disability benefits
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Business travel and accident insurance
- AI-powered career tool identifying career steps and learning opportunities
- Internal mobility team supporting career goals
- Wellness packages
- Competitive pay
- Award-winning culture of innovation and military-friendly workplace
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