Performance Engineering Cloud Lead
Core
Establish and drive Performance Engineering strategy for migration to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring cloud-native architectures meet performance, scalability, resiliency, and capacity objectives.
Role type
Director-level Performance Engineering Cloud Lead
Builds
Cloud-native performance standards, tooling, automation, capacity models, and certification methodologies for GCP workloads.
Domain
Financial Services / Cloud Infrastructure & Performance Engineering
Required skills
Performance Engineering strategy, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes/GKE, cloud networking, cloud databases, containers, observability platforms, performance modeling, benchmarking, capacity planning, bottleneck analysis, non-functional testing, load/stress/endurance testing, resiliency testing, technical leadership, data-driven analysis.
Preferred skills
Experience with microservices, service mesh, caching, messaging, data platforms, multi-region deployments, cell-based architectures, chaos engineering, modern performance testing automation.
Technologies
GCP, Kubernetes, GKE, LoadRunner, JMeter, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk
Responsibilities
Define and drive Performance Engineering strategy for GCP transformation; Partner with Architecture, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Platform teams to evaluate cloud-native designs; Lead performance assessments, proof-of-concepts, benchmarks, and comparative architecture studies; Establish cloud performance engineering standards, methodologies, guardrails, and non-functional requirements; Design performance validation frameworks covering load, stress, endurance, scalability, failover, and resiliency testing; Establish performance baselines and capacity models; Partner with development teams to identify and remediate performance bottlenecks; Evaluate and introduce modern performance testing, monitoring, observability, and automation capabilities; Define performance certification criteria and governance; Leverage cloud-native telemetry and observability data to develop actionable performance insights; Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the Performance Engineering organization.
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with strategic influence