Position Details

SolTech Services

Job Title: Performance Engineer
Location: Perimeter
State: Atlanta, GA Metro Area
Position Description:

The Performance Engineer will diagnose and resolve performance issues across multiple product lines including memory and garbage collection issues, inefficient programming algorithms, database tuning, etc.

Responsibilities:
  • Diagnose and resolve memory issues including frequent and long garbage collections.
  • Diagnose and resolve performance issues related to global network constraints.
  • Profile applications for poor coding practices and implement fixes.
  • Diagnose database usage, query plans, etc. and implement solutions to poor-performing queries.
Required Qualifications:
  • 5+ years of hands-on Java development experience.
  • Experience with global, high-traffic websites is a must.
  • Demonstrated experience in configuring and tuning memory in Java applications.
  • Demonstrated experience in diagnosing and resolving performance client-side (browser, JavaScript, HTML, etc.) and server-side (algorithms, latency, JMS, web service, etc.) issues in Java applications.
  • Demonstrated experience in diagnosing and resolving performance issues in Oracle databases.
  • Demonstrated understanding of the different development methodologies including, but not limited to, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall, Extreme Programming (XP), Iterative development, and the Agile programming model.
  • Familiarity with all layers of an application stack: hardware, software, network, database, etc.
  • Demonstrated experience in configuring and administering J2EE application servers such as JBoss, Tomcat, or Resin.
  • Demonstrated experience in administering large, enterprise Java applications including familiarity with tuning memory options, threads, connection pools, etc.
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