Performance Analysis and Capacity Planning Jobs

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1  RIM, Canada

Description:

Research In Motion Limited (RIM) is seeking driven individuals who can take our wireless data products to the next level in the global wireless market.

Job ID:

Performance Specialist Job Number: 1107218

Position Summary:

The Performance Engineering team is responsible for ensuring that our BlackBerry Solutions meet the highest level of performance and reliability. The emphasis in this role is to ensure that the BBM Cloud service is meeting performance requirements and to ensure product quality under load conditions. This will entail creating performance test strategies, running load tests, analyzing performance data and monitoring the product for reliability, stability and robustness. This will be done through experimenting with various load testing scenarios and workloads. Our customers demand that highest quality and performance of our products under real world traffic conditions.

Particulars:

• Job: Research & Development
  
  
• Primary Location: Canada-Ontario-Mississauga
  
  
• Schedule: Full-time
  
  
• Hire Type: Experienced (Regular)
  
  
• Travel: No
  
  
• Relocation: Available
  
  

2  Nokia, Germany

Description:

Experienced analyst to join our globally distributed Capacity Planning team. Our mission is to develop predictive models to translate business forecasts into IT infrastructure requirements. Our organization hosts and manages all of the services offered by Nokia Location & Commerce, and we need to scale our infrastructure to support hundreds of millions of users. Learn more.

Particulars:

• Job: Information Technology
  
  
• Primary Location: DE-Berlin
  
  
• Organization: Location & Commerce
  
  
• Schedule: Full-time
  
  
• Job Level: Individual Contributor
  
  
• Education Level: Bachelor's Degree (+ 16 years)
  
  
• Job Type: Experienced
  
  
• Employee Status: Regular
  
  
• Travel: None
  
  

3  Capacity Planner, Manhattan

Qualifications

Four-year degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Mathematics and at least 7 years experience in computer systems, software engineering, performance analysis, or at least 10 years equivalent professional experience. Must have knowledge of mainstream operating systems (i.e. Linux, Unix, Windows); basic networking concepts, such as TCP/IP and routing, as well as common hardware architectures; database concepts. Understanding of the client/server paradigm; demonstrated programming skills, preferably in an object-oriented language; knowledge of the following skills: modeling, load testing, or benchmarking; and knowledge of the scientific method. Also, individual should have written and oral communication skills.

Key competencies

• Strong understanding of automated performance testing approach, including implementation of automation frameworks.
  
  
• Strong understanding of modeling and simulations
  
  
• Strong understanding of server virtualization concepts
  
  
• Expertise in CA Hyperformix
  
  
• Experience with workload planning & estimation and test documentation.
  
  
• Strong understanding with monitoring concepts and tools
  
  
• Excellent skills with object-oriented development languages
  
  
• Strong understanding of Web 2.0 technology and testing
  
  
• Strong understanding of Server, Network, and database concepts
  
  
• Strong understanding of software development life cycle, quality assurance life cycle and testing methodologies.
  
  
• Good understanding of test metrics concepts
  
  
• Proven expertise in analyzing and understanding business requirements and translating these into test cases and test scripts.
  
  
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
  
  
• Strong analytical skills
  
  
• Ability to multi-task and display flexibility
  
  
• Ability to work effectively both in a team environment and independently
  
  
• Familiarity with HP Performance Testing Tools: HP Performance Center and/or LoadRunner is a strong plus
  
  
• Familiarity with Shunra / any WAN emulation technology is a plus one of the primary skills Ð modeling and simulation. We have a number of projects that require an experienced Capacity Planner who has recently created system analytical models using tools from vendors such as CA-Hyperformix, SPE-ED, Compuware, IBM, etc. The person could have also created models utilizing Excel as well.
  
  

4  EMC Greenplum, Hadoop

• MS CS or equivalent required
  
  
• 10+ years of industry software development experience including a recent technical leadership role
  
  
• Strong development experience in Java and Linux environment. Scripting languages a plus.
  
  
• Experience developing large-scale system software. Participated in the entire product life cycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance.
  
  
• Knowledge of distributed computing and parallel programming. Experience with Hadoop strongly desired.
  
  
• Good verbal and written communication skills
  
  
• Strong teamwork skills
  
  

5  EMC Greenplum, Chorus

• iterate and prototype and revise often, working with product managers, end users, a UI designer, and visionary stakeholders from Greenplum's management team, from academia, and from business;
  
  
• contribute to the development of frameworks and infrastructure, and lead by example in creating robust, well-tested code;
  
  
• drive the architecture stack to deliver the vision, and advise at a technical level on "buy versus build" for individual components; and
  
  
• assist with hiring, mentoring and coaching of other engineers.
  
  

• Five or more years in a professional software development role, on at least two successful products
  
  
• Experience with Agile/Scrum style projects
  
  
• Three or more years as an senior developer or technical lead
  
  
• Deep experience of object-oriented development, preferably in Java, and familiarity with UI technologies and client-side frameworks such as JQuery or Prototype.
  
  

• Relational databases
  
  
• Business intelligence or analytics
  
  
• ETL products
  
  
• Cloud-related architectures and technologies
  
  
• PostgreSQL/Greenplum
  
  

6  Yahoo!

• Strong hands-on Linux server infrastructure support and administration experience. FreeBSD experience a plus.
  
  
• Strong knowledge and understanding of current hardware server and components trends and direction (eg. processors, flash based media)
  
  
• Experienced in OS/SW/HW performance testing, analysis and troubleshooting
  
  
• Knowledge and understanding of large scale network and storage concepts, architecture, and operations best practices.
  
  
• Ability to interact with engineers working on Apache, PHP, MySQL, Hadoop, and Java based applications
  
  
• Ability to analyze and debug complex server performance issues
  
  
• Good understanding of IP networks and Internet security protocols
  
  
• Good understanding of key protocols such as: ssh, http, dns, snmp
  
  
• Good understanding of basic systems analysis tools such as netstat, iostat, vmstat, strace, gdb, etc.
  
  
• Good verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
  
  
• Any software development experience would be advantageous, ideally some shell or PERL scripting for daily tasks management.
  
  
• Able to lead meetings and communicate with colleagues and team members of varying technical expertise
  
  
• Experienced with standard operations practices including ticket processing and change management
  
  
• Experienced with large-scale server deployments, installation and support.
  
  

• Strong personal organization skills
  
  
• Reliable and approachable with high integrity
  
  
• Intelligent, analytical and customer focused.
  
  
• Confident and comfortable dealing with conflicting demands
  
  
• Results driven
  
  

7  Performance Engineer, Dallas Area, TX

8  VSP Global

• Monitor and analyze performance and capacity data from various computing platforms.
  
  
• Conduct research and analysis for system incidents to correlate with system performance and capacity data, and publish findings.
  
  
• Track and analyze system capacity demand trends and develop plans for accommodating future needs.
  
  
• Research cost saving opportunities related to system performance and capacity and present written and verbal recommendations.
  
  
• Configure, operate, and administer system performance and capacity software tools.
  
  
• Analyze, diagnose, and develop conclusions related to system performance and capacity alerts.
  
  
• Create new and/or revise technical procedures related to capacity management.
  
  
• Train junior staff and other coworkers on the appropriate use of capacity management products and tools.
  
  
• Prepare scripts for load testing efforts.
  
  
• Configure, operate, and administer system performance and capacity software tools.
  
  
• Monitor and analyze performance and capacity data from various computing platforms.
  
  
• Publish performance and capacity data content on CM web site.
  
  
• Analyze, diagnose and develop conclusions related to system performance and capacity alerts.
  
  

9  President Obama is Recruiting R Analysts

• Communications Analyst
  
  
• Digital Strategy Analyst
  
  
• Statistical Modeling Analyst
  
  

10  Contract Web Systems Engineer

• Duration: 6 to 18 month contract (2 openings)
  
  
• Location: San Francisco, CA
  
  
• Job Classification: Web Systems Engineer Experience Level: 4 year degree and 10+ years technical experience with 6+ years web experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. The applicant needs to demonstrate mastery in the below categories with focus on application delivery. Understanding of Web Applications is required.
  • F5 - Load Balancers / Application Delivery Controllers - In depth engineering experience on F5 load balancers, including an understanding of routing protocols TCP, SSL, TLS, and application layer protocols including HTTP, SSH, SSL, and DNS.
    
    
  • Applicant must have an understanding of load balancing strategies/ techniques, expertise in application switching / traffic management, knowledge of persistence and SSL certificates.
    
    
  • Needs experience on F5 versions v9.4. & 10.2.
    
    
  • Applicant needs to be able to complete basic configurations on the F5, including OS upgrades, trunking, and general troubleshooting of the devices.
    
    
  • Advanced skills of designing, coding, and troubleshooting iRules and iControls are required.
    
    
  • A high degree of F5 experience is required for this position.
    
    
  • F5 Web Accelerator or F5 ASM experience is a plus for this job.
    
    
  • Web Servers (Sun One & Apache) Indepth knowledge and hands on experience working with web servers, including the understanding of the various web protocols.
    
    
  • The ability to explain how the web server works, describe the settings in the main configuration files, describe how the certificates work on the web server, and describe SSL termination and handshakes with load balancers and application servers
    
    
  • Sun One administration- includes installation, upgrades, configuration, tuning, creating virtual instances, managing SSL certs, troubleshooting problems including core file analysis.
    
    
  • Apache administration- includes installation, upgrades, configuration, tuning, managing SSL certs, troubleshooting problems.
    
    
  • Understanding of the various modules and its benefits. Automating routine tasks such as startup / shutdown and log management. Additional desired knowledge
    
    
  • Sun N1, IBM Rational Clear Case, Solaris, Linux Red Hat 4.X, scripting ability in Perl and/or shell, XML, and IBM Rational Clear Quest, Knowledge of SAML 1.1 and 2.0.
    
    
  • Applicant needs great attention to detail when creating install guides and standards for the various environments.
    
    
  • The applicant needs excellent verbal and written communication skills when supporting the different technologies in preproduction, and when assisting the production support group.
    
    
  • Knowledge of additional competitive technologies is desired. Platform and Skill Set Expertise: Web Development : Perl, Design Skills & Tools : Visio, Microsoft Productivity Software : MS Office, Source Code Control : ClearCase, Analysis Skills : UML Additional desired knowledge
    
    
  • Sun N1, IBM Rational Clear Case, Solaris, Linux Red Hat 4.X, scripting ability in Perl and/or shell, XML, and IBM Rational Clear Quest, Knowledge of SAML 1.1 and 2.0.
    
    
  • Applicant needs great attention to detail when creating install guides and standards for the various environments.
    
    
  • The applicant needs excellent verbal and written communication skills when supporting the different technologies in preproduction, and when assisting the production support group. á
    
    
  • Knowledge of additional competitive technologies is desired. Platform and Skill Set Expertise: Web Development : Perl, Design Skills & Tools : Visio, Microsoft Productivity Software : MS Office, Source Code Control : ClearCase, Analysis Skills : UML
    
    
  
  
  

11  WalmartLabs

• be at the forefront of solutions for distributed processing and messaging, robust distributed storage, data-stream computational pipelines, real-time indexing, multi-level caching, capacity planning, and performance tuning
  
  
• work with and further develop open-source technologies including Hadoop, Cassandra, and Gearman
  
  
• be excited about making an immediate impact on a global scale
  
  

12  TeamQuest

13  PayPal

Title:

Capacity and Performance Engineer

Location:

PayPal - Scottsdale, AZ

Position:

This is a full time, direct hire position. Please no third party vendors or agencies.

Description:

As a member of the capacity planning team, you will work with other teams to assess the end to end capacity impact of new features and site changes in demand.

• Work with operations teams to influence the choice of new architectures and solutions for the PayPal site.
  
  
• Work on generating long term forecasts and reports for the PayPal site as well detecting and explaining anomalies and changes in site trends.
  
  
• Participate on data validation and collection activities.
  
  

Requirements:

• Strong analytical and technical communication skills
  
  
• Strong experience on data analysis and systems modeling
  
  
• Proven programming skills and solid knowledge of Perl, Java
  
  
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux
  
  
• Proficiency in web architectures and server architectures
  
  
• SAS programming and experience is a plus.
  
  
• Familiarity with capacity modeling tools such as HyPerformix, Workbench, BMC is a plus.