There’s nothing more exciting than being at the center of a rapidly growing field in technology and applying your skillsets to drive innovation and modernize the world's most complex and mission-critical systems.

As a Performance Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank Capacity Management team, you will leverage your technical expertise and problem-solving skills to promote substantial business impact by optimizing the performance capabilities of various applications across both private and public cloud environments.

Job responsibilities

Partner with SRE LOB teams to create a centre of excellence for Performance Testing in CIB, developing an efficient approach and defining testing templates to drive compliance, quality, and standardization across the organization.Utilize performance testing and monitoring tools such as Blazemeter, JMeter, Grafana, and Prometheus to build prescriptive guidance that highlights and resolves performance bottlenecks.Assist with the implementation of performance monitoring solutions to provide real-time insights into system performance.Master multi-platform performance tooling and lead the architecture and engineering of performance tooling to meet the firm’s needs.Contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.Creates high quality designs, roadmaps, and program charters that are delivered by you or the engineers under your guidanceProvides advice and mentoring to other engineers and acts as a key resource for technologists seeking advice on technical and business-related issuesCollaborates with others to create and implement observability and reliability designs for complex systems that are robust, stable, and do not incur additional toil or technical debtWorks toward becoming an expert on the applications and platforms in your remit while understanding their interdependencies and limitationsProvides comprehensive and ongoing guidance, tools, and solutions to support the firms’ growthMakes significant contributions to JPMorgan Chase’s site reliability community via internal forums, communities of practice, guilds, and conferences

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience.Hands on experience in identification and resolution of Performance issues across systems, specifically in building and executing Load and Stress testing for app health and Capacity purposes.Passion for creating best practices and influencing technology change, with understanding of how application architecture and performance impact business outcomes and continuity.Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.Advanced knowledge in site reliability culture and principles with demonstrated ability to implement site reliability within an application or platformAdvanced knowledge and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, service level objectives, alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, etc.Ability to communicate data-based solutions with complex reporting and visualization methodsRecognized as an active contributor of the engineering communityContinues to expand network and leads evaluation sessions with vendors to see how offerings can fit into the firm’s strategyAbility to anticipate, identify, and troubleshoot defects found during testingStrong communication skills with ability to mentor and educate others on site reliability principles and practicesPreferred qualifications, capabilities, and skillsPractical cloud-native experience, primarily in AWS.Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices.Certifications in performance testing or cloud technologies.