Job Description

At U.S. Bank, we're passionate about helping customers and the communities where we live and work. The fifth-largest bank in the United States, were one of the country's most respected, innovative and successful financial institutions. U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, among other factors.

Job Description

The Senior Performance Engineer is responsible for defining performance strategy, analyzing performance results, tuning the applications and systems key KPIs and enhance the performance of Consumer Banking Channel technologies and end-to-end technical solutions.

Additional Accountabilities:
Responsible for troubleshooting and resolution of performance problems.
Work with application development, network, database, and infrastructure specialists to identify and implement performance improvements. Take the lead on assisting develop teams in planning on-going performance support and trouble shooting
Collaborate with developers to promote performance engineering best practices to catch performance earlier in the SDLC life cycle
Responsible for analysis of performance results and measurements and the reporting of those results back to project teams, development teams, management, and business stakeholders
Provides the foundation and oversight for translating performance requirements into effective technical requirements. Guides team in the design of technical solutions that meet these requirements
Understand the requirements for performance of all applications in scope and makes recommendations for infrastructure capacity planning
Tune application and systems for performance and scalability improvements
Improve resiliency of applications/systems by emulating latency and extreme conditions in performance environments
Analyze code and suggest best practices from performance standpoint
Profile applications for performance improvements
Performance deep dive of JVM/CLR analysis to examine garbage collection, thread and heap dumps etc.
Implement automation for regular tasks to improve the efficiency
Provide technical expertise to improve the performance and reliability of applications/systems
Conduct analysis of application needs and recommend tools to increase the productivity as necessary
Participate in architecture design and assess the design performance standpoint
Ensures that performance strategies are formulated, approved, and followed.
Able to serve as subject matter expert for performance testing and performance test tools.
Successful applicants will exemplify US Bank's ethical principles of uncompromising integrity, respect for others, accountability for decisions and actions, and good citizenship.

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- Three to five years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience
-5+ years of in Performance Engineering
-2+ years experience in development using Java/.Net
-7+ years of experience across multiple technology disciplines

Extensive experience in/with:
- Languages: C, C and Java
- Database: MS SQL, Oracle, MongoDB
- Agile methodology/deliveries
- Experience with diagnostics tools to identify root cause like jProfiler.
- Automated testing tools such as LoadRunner, jMeter
- Performance monitoring tools such as App Dynamics
- Experience with Splunk and ELK logging tools
- Good knowledge with Cloud technologies
- Experience with performance engineering of Kubernetes applications
- Good understanding of infrastructure sizing and analysis
- Exceptional technical expertise in architectural design, development and implementation with specialization in multiple technology disciplines, platforms and applications
- Extensive knowledge in system integration and business process modeling
- Superior understanding of the enterprise architectural blueprint requirements and the impact on business functions
- Ability to work both independently and collaboration with team
- Strong technical, logical, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent planning and organizational skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Benefits:
Take care of yourself and your family with U.S. Bank employee benefits. We know that healthy employees are happy employees, and we believe that work/life balance should be easy to achieve. That's why we share the cost of benefits and offer a variety of programs, resources and support you need to bring your full self to work and stay present and committed to the people who matter most - your family.

Learn all about U.S. Bank employee benefits, including tuition reimbursement, retirement plans and more, by visiting usbank.com/careers.

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