DevOps Performance Engineer (Jmeter/K6)

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

The Opportunity

“A DevOps role at FICO is an opportunity to work with cutting edge cloud technologies with a team focused on delivery of secure cloud solutions and products to enterprise customers.” - VP, DevOps Engineering

What You’ll Contribute

• Collaborate in a devops environment where you will work closely with developers in automating new applications, features, and services.
• Support enterprise standards around technology, security compliance and systems interoperability for FICO products/solutions.
• Assist in developing scripts to automate development operations functions or processes –Cloud Infrastructure Automation & Orchestration.
• Research and implement automation tools to replace existing manual processes and maintenance tasks.
• Collaborate with other engineers on design, analysis, architecture/modeling, implementation, unit testing, code reviews and process enhancements.
• Optimize performance and scalability as necessary to meet business goals.
• Deliver customer solutions using open source and commercial technologies. 
• Deliver full automation pipeline using CI/CD/DevOps concepts, tools and technologies (Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, Git/Stash, Nexus, Puppet/Chef). 
• At least 3+ years of experience with performance test simulations, performance analysis, and performance monitoring.
• Design, maintain and enhance performance testing framework components.
• Develop a comprehensive performance testing strategy, including detailed Non-Functional Requirements (NFR). Translate the requirements into appropriate test scenarios.
• Create LoadRunner scripts with Rest API and Web protocols.
• Jmeter and K6 tools experience required
• Design, script and execute load, stress and endurance testing and deliver comprehensive reports to the project team.
• Review, analyse and document test results and metrics with recommendations to the engineering leaders and senior managers of the engineering team.
• Develop and execute performance test scripts using Gatling, leveraging advanced custom coding capabilities. Knowledge of LoadRunner, JMeter, K6, or similar tools with advanced custom coding skills is beneficial.
• Have exposure to Monitoring tools like AppDynamics, Grafana, Splunk and Datadog to monitor and enhance application performance.
• Implement chaos testing to evaluate system resilience and robustness under adverse conditions.
• Hands-on Experience in Agile Scrum and Waterfall Software Development Lifecycle.
• Well versed in using Continuous Integration and Continuous Development tools, like Jenkins / GitHub Actions or any other.
• Able to manage multiple work streams, independent, able to communicate well in both written and spoken form.
• Broad experience working in cross-functional teams to drive product development.
• Experience in creating test strategy and test plans, and executing performance and load testing activities for large-scale, enterprise-class applications.
• Experience in designing and developing automated reporting. Automate repetitive manual tasks to improve efficiency and streamline performance testing processes.
• Willing to work in a highly dynamic environment with tight deadlines and ever changing priorities. 

What We’re Seeking

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• Experience in a computer engineering position or related occupation.
• 3+ years of overall experience.
• The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with performance testing tools, monitoring tools, automation tools, Java profiling, and technical analysis.
• This role requires operational exposure to DevOps and CI/CD. Develop a technical and functional grasp of our product architecture. This role requires to participate in the continuing performance enhancement of our products.
• Experience in operating highly-available, redundant, public cloud architectures solutions utilizing IaaS and PaaS.
• Experience in driving engineering automation from CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, monitoring & alerting to developer support.

Our Offer to You

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values:  Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

Why Make a Move to FICO?

At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics.  You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

•    Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.

•    Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.

•    Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career.  Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!

Learn more about how you can fulfil your potential at www.fico.com/Careers

FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.

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