About
At Emirates, we believe in connecting the world through our global hub in Dubai and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers ‘Fly Better’. Emirates Group IT thrives on the dynamic nature of technology, positioning us as pioneers in aviation innovation. We are looking for exceptional IT professionals to join our cutting-edge information and technology team as a Senior Performance Engineer.
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As a Senior Performance Engineer in the Performance Engineering team, you will drive and optimize the performance of our systems and applications. The team is responsible for ensuring that all software and infrastructure components operate efficiently and effectively, delivering a seamless experience to our customers. We value diverse perspectives and ways of thinking as we build a talented team of quality engineers. Our team ensures the robustness and responsiveness of applications across the entire customer journey.
Job Outline
- Participate in all phases of the Performance Engineering lifecycle: Requirement Gathering, Design, Development, Scripting, Execution, Analysis, Troubleshooting, Tuning, Reporting.
- Collaborate with Architecture, Solution Design, and Development teams to design for Performance.
- Understand Non-Functional Requirements and the application, including the underlying architecture and technology stack, and ensure the system performance is within defined SLAs.
- Execute appropriate performance tests against the established Performance Testing Framework for Component Tests and End-to-End Tests across systems.
- Conduct thorough analysis of test results at the feature level to identify bottlenecks and issues, collaborating with Site Reliability Engineers to take appropriate diagnostic action.
- Define test data strategy and collaborate with the Test Data Management team to generate on-demand data.
- Monitor production workloads and performance, and update/refine the workload model using analytics and user-pattern analysis.
Qualifications & Experience
- Degree in Computer Science or similar, with extensive 3+ years of experience in Performance Engineering for Web, Mobile, and Desktop applications.
- Highly skilled in load testing tools and client-side performance analysis tools for assessing and optimizing application performance.
- Proficient in observability and monitoring tools/frameworks, with extensive experience in application performance management tools, code profilers, and log analytics platforms.
- Strong background in relational and No-SQL databases, including expertise in identifying DB-related issues and analyzing AWR reports.
- In-depth understanding of DevOps practices and expertise in implementing Continuous Performance Testing using load testing tools and observability solutions.
- Extensive hands-on experience across various platforms, including UNIX, Windows, Cloud environments, and Container Management Platforms.
- Strong understanding of Resiliency and Chaos Engineering, with hands-on experience using chaos testing tools.
- Proficiency in at least one coding or scripting language.
Salary & Benefits
Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel stays around the world. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city.
