Charles Schwab

Performance Engineer IV

Posted on: 5 Mar 2021

Austin, TX

Job Description

Your Opportunity
We are looking for a Performance Engineer who is passionate about automation and process improvement. Retail Web Technology builds and maintains client facing technology solutions. We are looking for a Performance Engineer to support a wide range of improvements to performance engineering processes, including production monitoring and DevOps practices in support of various development teams. The ideal candidate will have 6+ years of experience in a comparable position, demonstrated experience in a fast-paced, agile environment and capable of working across a large enterprise

What you are good at

* Work with Build/Run teams to build highly-available and scalable performance testing solutions leveraging platform infrastructure with appropriate monitoring and alerting mechanisms in place.
* Engineer performance testing into the agile scrum certification process and establish service level agreements for RWT infrastructure, agent deployments, including optimizations and tuning's per requirements.
* Provide guidance for application/operational teams to setup policies, alerts, dashboards and custom configuration to get full visibility into their entire environment.
* Work closely with product owner and team members to decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks
* The ideal candidate will contribute to Schwabs journey to mature our Continuous Delivery processes by establishing automated processes, streamlining build and deploy methodology, and improving our software development practices.
* Assist in analyzing application configuration management issues in production and test (non-production) environments. Develop and maintain performance scripts.
* Identify technology gaps/risks early and establish mitigation plans
* Complete assigned tasks by working with individuals and teams that are geographically dispersed.
* Actively participating in mentoring junior team members.
* Work with Team Leads, Architects, and Developers across the organization to proactively monitor application performance and ensure new features align to application SLAs.

What you have

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
* Excellent judgement.
* Excellent oral and written communications skills.
* Ability to juggle many competing priorities.
* Knowledge with Monitoring of large scale applications, .NET and database applications.
* Solid systems administration understanding (UNIX, Linux or Windows)
* The ideal candidate will have 6+ years or more in depth of Build, Deploy, Configuration, and Release Management discipline and processes.
* Experience with Microsoft VSTS, Parasoft LOADTest, Jmeter, Karate or other industry leading toolsets for performance and load testing.
* Experience with the Atlassian toolset (Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo and Confluence).
* Experience with deployment patterns which reduce deployment risk, such as Canary and Blue-Green.
* Have experience in one or more major programming, scripting or data base query languages (i.e. Powershell, Javascript, C, Python, SQL/PL).
* Experience in Cloud Foundry or AWS or relevant experience is preferred.
* Experience with automation/configuration management tools such as Saltstack is a plus.
* Experience with code scanning tools such as Vericode and SonarQube.
* Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, Splunk, Dynatrace Synthetic, ThousandEyes and Geneos.
* Knowledge of best practices with respect to branching strategies and code promotion.
* Understanding of testing frameworks and reporting tools.









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Charles Schwab

San Francisco, CA

The Charles Schwab Corporation provides a full range of brokerage, banking and financial advisory services through its operating subsidiaries. Its broker-dealer subsidiary, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (Member SIPC), offers investment services and products, including Schwab brokerage accounts. Its banking subsidiary, Charles Schwab Bank (member FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender), provides deposit and lending services and products. Access to Electronic Services may be limited or unavailable during periods of peak demand, market volatility, systems upgrade, maintenance, or for other reasons.

Our purpose is to champion every client's goals with passion and integrity. This purpose drives us to help our clients take ownership of their financial futures, helping people at all levels of income and every stage of life, because investing for the future is one of the most important things people can do for themselves and their families. We believe it is critical to the health of our communities and to our society.

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