Performance Engineering Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES:Kforce has a client that is seeking a Performance Engineering Manager in Miami, FL.Overview:The Performance Engineering Manager will lead a global team of experts who are responsible to make Platform products performant, scalable and reliable. You will be responsible for providing performance insights and identify optimization opportunities to product stakeholders, triage production performance bottlenecks, and identify and fix performance issues while working with all engineering teams. The candidate will work with all product development teams, DevOps, and SRE to design and develop performance plans to uncover performance problems, and performance analysis tools to allow dev teams to gain further insight into production behavior. The qualified candidate will work Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday onsite and Thursday/Friday WFH.Duties: Own end-to-end performance coverage and identify bottlenecks and work with the Engineering teams to address issues Daily management of objectives, priorities, risk as well as performance management of all staff reporting to you Provide technical leadership, career development, and mentoring to team members Work efficiently with teams at other geo locations (India, Philippines) Provide estimation of projects working with technical leadership Allocation, assign and capture the team's roles and responsibilities You design and develop more complex tests and non-functional tests Work with counterparts in the QA and Developer Productivity organizations to build tooling that serves the needs of all teams Create and curate dashboards to allow for comparative metrics across product buildsREQUIREMENTS: 14+ years of related experience Experience managing software engineering teams Agile, proactive, comfortable working with ambiguous specifications and can prioritize on the fly The courage to pull the emergency brake on releases that will negatively affect our customers and reputation Ability to perform many of the roles required of a software testing project, through which you acquire a full testing lifecycle experience Ability to act as a stream leader with technical delivery ownership within a limited number of technology areas Ability to contribute to bid, or review client proposals based on your technological expertiseComplete understanding and experience on end-to-end performance engineering lifecycle, including but not limited to each of below: Customer engagement Discussing the need and importance of performance testing to capture metrics for insight in application and infrastructure's performance Evaluating the system architecture and data flow Understanding the infrastructure design to plan performance tests accordingly Define the process for performance and test data management Define and standardize the Process, Reporting and communication to the different Business teamsEnvironment setup: Ensuring the performance test environment yields results which will mimic the real-world scenario Clearly defining the business functionalities which are to be in scope for performance testing Capturing the Non-Functional Requirements Ensuring each aspect of the business requirements is translated to Non-Functional Requirements which will help design the performance test scenarios Ensure that the environment under test has a monitoring solution either tool based on through system access Ensure control of Performance test environment to maintain the integrity of the testThe pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.