Platform Engineer​/Performance Tester

Req : RQ212559

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other

Required:

BI Full 6C (T4)

Job Family: Software Engineering

Skills:

CI/CD,Containerization,Performance Testing

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact supporting the Case Management Modernization (CMM) Program. The CMM program is an initiative to support the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AO) in developing a modern cloud-based solution to support all 204+ federal courts across the United States.

GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

The Platform Engineer/ Performance Tester will work as part of the CMM Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) team to deploy a secured cloud-native EDW platform and support the statutory and operational reporting, data cataloging, and other analytical objectives.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• 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

• Support canary release functions to allow end-user beta testing in production-like environments

• Contribute to the performance section of the Monthly Status Report (MSR) and sprint-level performance documentation

• Ensure alignment of performance testing strategy with Dev Sec Ops and MLOps processes for continuous integration and delivery

• Developing and executing formal performance test plans to ensure the delivery of quality software applications

• Writing and maintaining comprehensive test plans and reports

• Verifying and validating functionality by evaluating software against system requirements

• Identifying and documenting defects using reproducible test cases

• Work independently to triage issues and prioritize tasks

• 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 Dev Ops principles

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE &

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree and 1+ years’ experience with deploying and managing applications and systems to commercial and private clouds, or equivalent years of experience

• Experience in performance engineering and automated testing of cloud-based applications and platforms

• Strong knowledge of performance testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, Load Runner, Blaze Meter, or k6

• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Git Lab CI, Azure Dev Ops, or Git Hub Actions

• Experience with
  monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, Cloud Watch, or Elastic Stack

• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Java Script 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

• Experience with
  telemetry frameworks and logging standards to support traceability and root cause analysis

• Demonstrated ability…