Performance Architect

This company is a nationally recognized organization thats known for providing high-impact services supporting families and education. Theyre 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 GCP 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; Masters 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.