Performance Architect

Performance Architect

This company is a nationally recognized organization that's known for providing high-impact services supporting families and education. They're searching for a Performance Architect to play a key role in creating a performance-first mindset, guiding architecture decisions, and helping scale infrastructure to support millions of users. You will work with modern observability tools, cloud platforms like Google Cloud Platform and Azure, and performance testing technologies to support their evolving digital infrastructure.

This is an opportunity to build something that lasts. The team is focused on embedding performance as a core part of their engineering culture. If you're passionate about performance engineering, automation, and architectural design, this role will give you the autonomy, tools, and collaboration needed to make a lasting impact.

Required Skills & Experience

Strong experience in performance architecture, troubleshooting, and optimization across cloud and on-prem environments

Hands-on with observability stacks (logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards) and performance monitoring tools

Experience scripting, configuring, and running automated performance tests

Familiarity with Docker and infrastructure automation for load testing

Network profiling using tools like WireShark or Fiddler

Background in root cause analysis, performance modeling, and performance test strategy

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field; Master's preferred

What You Will Be Doing

Designing and maintaining performance testing frameworks

Identifying system bottlenecks and offering architectural improvements

Implementing continuous performance testing practices into CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring production systems, setting SLAs, and creating health dashboards

Collaborating with dev and ops teams to resolve complex performance issues

Researching and adopting new tools and trends to evolve the performance strategy

The Offer

You will receive the following benefits:

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Vacation Time

Work Life Balance

Applicants must be authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.

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10105282

Position Id:

788677