Performance Tester / Platform Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $85.1k - $115k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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General Dynamics Information Technology

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1954

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

General Dynamics Information Technology is a company at the forefront of technological innovation, offering a wide range of services including consulting, digital modernization, and application services. The company is heavily involved in implementing solutions related to artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, high-performance computing, and quantum technologies. GDIT is committed to supporting government and defense sectors, providing mission-critical services such as logistics and supply chain management, intelligence, and homeland security. The company also focuses on diverse and inclusive hiring practices and actively promotes employee well-being. Through its digital accelerator solutions and pioneering use of emerging technologies, GDIT aims to propel agencies' missions forward and address complex technological challenges.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and maintain automated performance testing frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native applications • Define and track performance KPIs including response time, throughput, resource utilization, latency, and error rates • Conduct load, stress, and scalability testing under multi-tenant and concurrent-user conditions • Develop and manage performance dashboards and provide executive- and technical-level reporting • Perform real-time monitoring, observability, and telemetry setup for application and infrastructure performance • Collaborate with developers, QA, SREs, and operations teams to identify bottlenecks and recommend optimizations • Validate critical workflows and use cases, including long-running queries, search operations, and API endpoints • Capture and report CPU, memory, disk, network, and application-specific log metrics • Contribute performance content to Monthly Status Reports and sprint-level documentation • Align performance testing strategy with DevSecOps and MLOps processes • Develop and execute formal performance test plans • Compose and maintain comprehensive test plans and reports • Verify and validate functionality against system requirements • Support IaaS and PaaS cloud solution resources for secure sensitive workloads • Design and implement server, network, and software configurations for cloud infrastructure and applications using DevOps principles • Work as part of an agile development team supporting modernization of enterprise-class software applications for the US Courts’ Case Management Modernization Program

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor of Science • 5+ years of related experience • At least 1 year deploying and managing applications and systems to commercial and private clouds • Experience in performance engineering and automated testing of cloud-based applications and platforms • Strong knowledge of JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, BlazeMeter, or k6 • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions • Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch, or Elastic Stack • Proficiency in Python, Bash, or JavaScript • Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices testing strategies • Strong understanding of AWS, Azure, or GCP performance characteristics • Experience with telemetry frameworks and logging standards • Ability to analyze large volumes of test data, identify trends, and drive root cause identification and tuning • Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams and participating in sprint ceremonies • Experience implementing DevSecOps using GitOps or similar tools • Experience developing, testing, and maintaining containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc. • Working knowledge of source version control and build/release tools and methodologies • Extensive hands-on experience with test planning, test case/script writing, test case automation, performance test execution, and performance test result analysis • Familiarity with SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS concepts and practices • Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure migration methodologies and application migrations to AWS or Azure • Ability to obtain a position of Public Trust with the Administrative Office of the US Courts • Must be a US Person: Green Card Holder, US Permanent Resident Alien, Refugee, Asylee, or US Citizen • Less than 10% travel required

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts • Dental plan options • Vision plan • 401(k) plan with company match • Full-flex work weeks where possible • Vacation, sick, personal, holiday, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave • Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year • 10 paid holidays per year • Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees • Short- and long-term disability benefits • Life insurance • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance • Personal accident insurance • Critical illness insurance • Business travel and accident insurance • AI-powered career tool identifying career steps and learning opportunities • Internal mobility team supporting career goals • Wellness packages • Competitive pay • Award-winning culture of innovation and military-friendly workplace