As an Application Performance Architect, you'll be at the forefront of ensuring that software applications achieve optimal performance, scalability and reliability across all systems.
Responsibilities
- Define performance testing processes, tools and best practices, collaborating closely with development and operations teams.
- Create and monitor dashboards/ reports to track SLIs/SLOs/SLAs
- Monitor application performance, system stability and API tuning in production environments
- Recommend and implement performance optimization, including code improvements and infrastructure change.
- Architect scalable cloud solutions and define cloud migration strategies.
- Drive and Lead production incident resolution related application performance, scalability issues
- Lead bench marking efforts and develop automated performance, scalability and reliability tests.
- Document and communicate performance metrics, findings and recommendations across all development teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Maters degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Significant experience (Minimum 12 year) in application performance engineering/ architecture.
- Expertise with performance testing and profiling tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, New Relic, Dynatrace.
- Experience in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and Automation scripting (Python, Bash)
- Proven experience in Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) , Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM templates) and Cost optimization methods
Technical Skills
- Server-side Framework – Java 17, Spring Boot, Spring MVC
- Microservice Architecture, Rest API Design
- Performance Tuning & Profiling – Visual VM, JMETER, Lighthouse
- Logging, Troubleshooting – New Relic, Dynatrace, Kibana, Cloud Watch
Database
- Relational database – Oracle, MySql, Postgres, DB2
- Nosql database – MongoDB, Redis
Cloud Platform, Deployment and DevOps
- Cloud Platforms – AWS (ECS, EC2, Cloud front, Cloud Watch,S3, IAM, Route 53, ALB)
- DevOps – Docker containers, SonarQube, Jenkins, Git, Github, Github-actions, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform
We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
DISCLAIMER:
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.
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What We Do
Alight is a leading cloud-based human capital technology and services provider that powers confident health, wealth and wellbeing decisions for 36 million people and dependents. Our Alight Worklife® platform combines data and analytics with a simple, seamless user experience. Supported by our global delivery capabilities, Alight Worklife is transforming the employee experience for people around the world. With personalized, data-driven health, wealth, pay and wellbeing insights, Alight brings people the security of better outcomes and peace of mind throughout life’s big moments and most important decisions. Learn how Alight unlocks growth for organizations of all sizes at alight.com.
