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Performance Tester / Platform Engineer
General Dynamics Information Technology
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $94,676 - $128,092 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaScriptJenkinsJMeterKubernetesMicroservicesOpenShiftPrometheusPython
About the role
- Design, implement, and maintain automated performance testing frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native applications
- Define and track key performance KPIs (e.g., response time, throughput, resource utilization, latency, error rates) based on SLAs and stakeholder requirements
- Conduct load, stress, and scalability testing to validate performance under multi-tenant conditions and concurrent user loads
- Develop and manage a performance dashboard and provide executive-level and technical-level reporting on system behavior
- Perform real-time monitoring, observability , and telemetry setup for application and infrastructure performance using modern tools and dashboards
- Collaborate with developers, QA, SREs, and operations teams to identify performance bottlenecks and provide optimization recommendations
- Validate the performance of critical workflows and use cases, including long-running queries, search operations, and API endpoints
- Capture and report on system metrics such as CPU, memory, disk, network , and application-specific logs for tuning and diagnostics
- Contribute to the performance section of the Monthly Status Report (MSR) and sprint-level performance documentation
- Ensure alignment of performance testing strategy with DevSecOps and MLOps processes for continuous integration and delivery
- Developing and executing formal performance test plans to ensure the delivery of quality software applications
- Composing and maintaining comprehensive test plans and reports
- Verifying and validating functionality by evaluating software against system requirements
- Responsible for supporting cloud solution resources, both IaaS and PaaS, that enable the business to securely run sensitive workloads within a cloud
- Implementing and designing server, network, and software configurations for a cloud computing infrastructure and applications with a focus on DevOps principles
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor of Science
- Experience: 5+ years of related experience; 1+ year should involve deploying and managing applications and systems to commercial and private clouds
- Required Skills: Experience in performance engineering and automated testing of cloud-based applications and platforms
- Strong knowledge of performance testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, BlazeMeter, or k6
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch, or Elastic Stack
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or JavaScript for automation of testing and reporting workflows
- Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and microservices testing strategies
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure performance characteristics, especially AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience with telemetry frameworks and logging standards to support traceability and root cause analysis
- Demonstrated 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
- Experienced in providing DevSecOps implementation using GitOps, or similar tools
- Experienced in developing, testing, and maintaining containerized applications utilizing docker, k8s, Openshift, etc.
- Working knowledge of Source Version Control and Build/Release tools and methodologies
- Extensive hands-on experience with Test planning, writing test cases/scripts, test case automation, performance test execution and analysis of performance test results
- Familiarity with standard concepts, practices, and procedures of cloud technology, including Software as Service (SaaS), Platform as Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Supporting large scale infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques (IaaS/PaaS) including application migrations to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay and paid time off
- Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
- GDIT Paid Family Leave program providing up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for vacation, personal business, and illness
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
performance engineeringautomated testingperformance testingscripting languagestest planningtest case automationperformance test executioncloud infrastructure performancetelemetry frameworksroot cause analysis
Soft skills
collaborationanalytical skillscommunicationproblem-solvingreportingdocumentationteamworkadaptabilityattention to detailtime management
Certifications
Bachelor of ScienceDevSecOps certificationAWS certificationAzure certificationGCP certification
