Performance Engineer with SRE and cloud (AWS) Experience

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Role :- Performance Engineer with SRE and cloud (AWS) Experience

Location :- Remote (United states and Canada)

Job Type: Contract

Job Description :-

Role Summary:

As a Performance Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, you will:

Define performance, scalability, and reliability metrics aligned to business services (e.g., customer journeys, checkout, promotions, event‑driven sales, and holiday readiness).
Design, automate, and own the end‑to‑end performance testing strategy, including load, stress, spike, soak, and capacity testing.
Build and maintain capacity metrics and dashboards to support scaling decisions and cost optimization.
Create clear, actionable performance reports and summaries for technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
Leverage observability and monitoring platforms (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch) to analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks.
Apply SRE metrics and frameworks such as availability, latency, saturation, DORA metrics, and service quality indicators.
Contribute to automation initiatives that reduce toil and enable proactive or self‑healing responses to performance issues.
Partner with engineering teams to identify performance risks early in the design and development phases.
Advocate for performance engineering best practices and help raise performance literacy across the organization.

QUALIFICATIONS:

The Performance Engineer has:

Hands‑on experience with performance/load testing concepts and methodologies.
Solid understanding of Site Reliability Engineering fundamentals and principles.
Strong knowledge of core performance metrics, including identifying/testing latency, throughput, error rates, resource utilization, and threading.
Ability to write performance test plans, capacity models, and write detailed performance reports.
Experience participating in incident response and driving or contributing to incident reviews.
Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, DOTNET).
Familiarity with APIs, distributed systems, and cloud‑native architectures.
Strong analytical thinking and problem‑solving skills.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to Have:

Experience with Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (Terraform) is a plus
Experience with ‘Load Testing In Production’ is a plus
Experience with one or more load testing tools (e.g., k6, JMeter, Gatling, Locust).
Experience with Salesforce, Cloudflare, or edge/CDN performance considerations
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