Lead Performance Engineer Orchestration

Overview

Title:
Lead Performance Engineer with Orchestration.

Location:

Charlotte, NC
Inperson interview needed.
Position type: W2 contract

We are seeking experienced Performance Test Engineers to support a large-scale Data Center Migration program involving performance validation of enterprise applications. The role requires strong expertise in end-to-end performance testing, including NFR gathering, scripting, execution, monitoring, and advanced bottleneck analysis across modern cloud-native and enterprise platforms. This position requires candidates who can ramp up quickly, work independently, and bring strong engineering depth to both first-time performance initiatives and performance re-validation scenarios.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and define Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), SLAs, and workload models.
• Design and implement performance test strategies for migration validation.
• Develop and maintain performance test scripts using Load Runner and JMeter.
• Execute performance tests using Load Runner and/or Blaze Meter.
• Design workload distribution models based on business usage patterns.
• Conduct performance validation for applications migrating to new data center environments.
• Perform deep-dive bottleneck analysis across application, middleware, infrastructure, and database layers.
• Work with monitoring and observability tools such as App Dynamics and Splunk for root cause analysis.
• Validate scalability, reliability, and resilience in containerized/Open Shift environments.
• Plan and execute Chaos Engineering experiments to validate system stability under failure conditions.
• Provide performance tuning recommendations to development and infrastructure teams.
• Prepare detailed performance reports and executive summaries.
• Support rapid onboarding of applications where performance testing is being conducted for the first time.

• Performance Engineering
• Strong experience in NFR gathering and performance strategy definition.
• Expertise in performance scripting using:
• Load Runner (VuGen, Controller, Analysis)
• Apache JMeter
• Load Runner
• Blaze Meter
• Strong knowledge of Orchestration of workload modeling and test scenario design.
• Experience handling large, complex, multi-application environments.

• Hands-on experience with:
• App Dynamics
• Splunk
• Strong capability in performance diagnostics and bottleneck identification.
• Experience analyzing CPU, memory, thread pools, connection pools, GC logs, and SQL performance.

• Java-based applications
• .NET applications
• Containerized environments (Open Shift/Kubernetes preferred)
• Microservices architecture understanding

• Experience designing and executing controlled failure experiments using Gremlin or Chaos Mesh
• Ability to validate resilience, failover, and recovery scenarios.

• Experience in Data Center Migration performance validation.
• Experience testing applications undergoing infrastructure refresh or cloud transformation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD integrated performance testing.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) is an advantage.
• Experience handling performance testing for applications where no historical baseline exists.