Senior Performance Engineer

Team

ServiceNow DT Platform Technology Services team of talented and energetic individuals. The team works closely with application developers, product owners and PMO to maintain ServiceNow internal instances.

What you get to do in this role:

What we’re looking for:

• Experience with J2EE application servers (Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere, etc.)
• Development experience in JavaScript or Java (client/server-side)
• Knowledge of relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server)
• Familiarity with dynamic HTML components (AJAX, JavaScript, DOM, CSS, XML, HTML)
• Understanding of SQL performance, tuning, and Explain Plans for complex queries
• Experience with scripting languages (JavaScript, Python, Perl, Unix/Windows Shell)
• Ability to write/debug Object-Oriented code (Java preferred)
• Knowledge of Java JDKs and memory management, including heap dump analysis
• Great communication and presentation skills
• ServiceNow architecture experience is a plus
• Basic understanding of ITSM, ITIL, and CMDB is a plus
• Experience in web application platform performance management is a plus

Requirements

To be successful in this role you have:

• 8 - 12 years performance engineering experience around PerfOps, Performance Modelling and Analysis in the enterprise applications space
• BS, Masters in computer science or equivalent.
• Ready to analyze, track, capture end-to-end performance coverage, identify bottlenecks and collaborate with the teams to address issues
• Implement and monitor perf scripts to assess reliability, performance, and quality of the product/service.
• Should have started his/her career as a developer and transformed self to take up on the performance engineering activities.
• Understanding of basic networking and system administration
• Experience in diagnosing performance degradation (e.g. explain plans, database tuning, identify poor-performing dependencies, legacy code and hidden exceptions)
• Database fundamentals and architecture (e.g. MySQL, Oracle, PostGreSQL)
• Experience in one (or more) scripting languages: JavaScript, Python, Perl, Unix Shell, Windows Shell)
• Strong technical skills in web application/service performance and domain knowledge in cloud computing
• Good Experience with Performance Tools like Splunk/Neoload
• Unix/Linux experience
• Timely and accurate communication of alerts to the team
• Good working knowledge of web application component stack.
• Should play a key role in defining the perf strategies around the prevention of issues/ incidents through predictive and active analysis
• Perform proof of concepts of performance monitoring tools
• Should be good in documenting performance best practices and patterns and build relevant KBs
• Work with the SRE teams to determine points of failure in the ecosystem and advise how to architect for resiliency and low MTTR
• Unparalleled troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational aptitude, and time management skills
• Agile, proactive working with ambiguous specifications and should be able to prioritize on the fly
• Ability to clearly articulate solutions to complex technical problems
• Should collaborate and coordinate with teams globally
• Note: Should be willing to work outside of normal business hours as needed.

Desired Skills

• Strong understanding of ITSM, ITIL, and/or CMDB
• Must have a strong understanding of ServiceNow instance and its Perf ops
• Expertise in debugging, tuning, and optimizing Enterprise Applications (Java preferred, other relevant technologies ok)
• Experience writing or debugging Object Oriented code
• Experience working with dynamic HTML components: AJAX, JavaScript, CSS, XML
• Web Services (SOAP, REST) Producing and consuming the APIs
• Data connectors (e.g. JDBC, ODBC)
• Knowledge on two way automated integrations across systems
• Understanding Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

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Additional information

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