Performance Engineering Lead

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* Work Location:

** Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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* Hours:

** 37.5
** Line of Business:
** Technology Solutions
** Pay Details:**$76,800 - $115,200 CADTD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience  compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.
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* Job Description:

** We are looking for a seasoned
** Performance Engineering Lead
** that is passionate about testing large-scale, mission-critical software in a fast-paced agile environment. We @ TD - Performance engineering, strongly believe in Performance Testing and Engineering to build high-quality next generation software.

This role offers you the opportunity to apply your domain knowledge to new product requests and collaborate with other architects inside and outside the company. The ideal candidate will be partnered with talented full stack engineers that share our passion and great pride in the simple elegance and usability of our solution. They will be a key member of the system performance/core teams & work on a proof of concept if needed and relish the opportunity to share their knowledge with more junior engineers.

- No matter what role you play, you are a leader in the Performance Engineering space. Whether you are an Engineer, SDET or PE Architect, Developer, Tester, Lead, Manager everyone runs on the same set of basic principles in an effort to remain the best ever PE team to work with - We hire the brightest minds at PE @ TD offering an opportunity to make a direct impact and drive change at internet speed.

If you are a passionate leader and innovative pioneer, we looking to hand you the keys to engineer and fine tune applications used by Canada's top rated Bank - Here at PE @ TD, we work hard at building an amazing set of solutions used by our customers and we have a ton of fun while doing it! Fun is a core competency in our team – we look for people that have fun at work and make it easy for others to have fun
** JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
*** Strategize & lead testing of TD Bank's production like infrastructure with a focus on automation & scale
* Promote and apply best practices for performance testing of scalable and reliable services across engineering
* Be a subject matter expert and partner with our engineering team on areas of performance and scale
* Drive initiatives to evolve our current performance framework/tools/processes and keep it in line with best practices and scalability needs.
* Participate in root cause analysis for performance related incidences and determining how we can prevent them in the future, Identify performance bottlenecks and create repeatable processes
* Be a performance test advocate and advisor for the performance tools and frameworks that serve as a model for others with regard to quality, scalability, operability, maintainability, etc
* Participate in defining the technical vision and architecture with performance in mind
* Communicate and collaborate across levels, functions, and organizational boundaries
* Mentor and coach junior engineers to leverage their full potential
** EXPERIENCE AND / OR EDUCATION
*** University or post-graduate degree in computer science or engineering
* 5+ years of Performance Testing/Monitoring of Web Applications
* 5-7 years of eading performance test engineering
* Track record of leading successful large scale Infrastructure projects
* Candidates MUST be able to code with a programming language using standard software development practices like unit testing and iterative development
* Possess good knowledge in network and edge technologies
* Demonstrate excellent Linux fundamentals and solid understanding of diagnosing system utilization
* Experience working with Agile methodologies
* Possess excellent documentation and communication skills, with the ability to influence others
* Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline for performance testing
* Experience with Performance test framework development and automation
* Experience working with large scale distributed systems & large data volumes
* Experience with some of the following technologies and services:
* Cloud based Infrastructure as a Service (especially Azure)
* Container based service schedulers (e.g., Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, etc.)
* MySQL, Java, Python
* Performance testing tool - Jmeter
* Log management tools (Splunk)
* Monitoring systems (Prometheus, Dynatrace, Datadog, )
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* Who We Are:

** TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth…