Location: Chennai
Experience: 6 - 9 Years
The Purpose of This Role
As a Performance engineer, you will be applying your performance engineering practices working with the
latest performance testing tools and technologies to ensure Fidelity’s industry leading platforms are robust
and can scale to meet the needs of the business, you will also be exercising your system admin skills to
design, develop, implement, and manage AWS cloud and on-prem unix environments. This job requires a
strong background in performance engineering, systems administration and outstanding organizational,
analytical, collaboration, and communication skills. We believe that delivering the best possible customer
experience requires an artful blend of human ingenuity and technology. While we value smart
technologists, we are fanatics about our Culture Code that promotes leadership at all levels.

The Value You Deliver

Work with application architects to identify performance bottlenecks and make tuning

recommendations

Ensure timely escalation of critical performance issues to the development and engineering teams

Develop, design, implement, and support application/web servers running WebSphere, TcServer, and Apache.
System Administration in Linux and AWS environments.
Develop monitoring and management tools and processes.
Accurately estimate work requirements and create detailed plans.
Identify & evaluate automation opportunities and deliver quick POC
Document processes and best practices.
Communicate effectively in team environment.
Identify departmental needs and make suggestions regarding technical direction.
Participate in an on-call rotation and provide 24x7 support.

The Skills that are Key to this role

Performance Testing: LoadRunner, JMeter, Selenium, Grafana & Datadog.
Linux systems administration experience required. (Linux commands)
Application performance testing experience required.
Languages: Java, SQL, scripting (bash/ksh), python preferred.
Application server: Tomcat, Apache, IBM WebSphere.
Advanced application memory consumption analysis
Experience in Continuous Integration tools is highly desired
Experience/Knowledge of cloud computing environments and applications (AWS/Azure).
Solid experience in Agile methodologies (Spotify is a plus).
Excellent communication skills required.
Strong problem resolution skills required.
Ability to work in a team-oriented environment required.
Any workflow tool experience is a big plus.
Owns the outcome by taking personal accountability for delivering strong results
Self-directed, willing to take initiative, pragmatic and results-oriented
Has keen attention to detail and wants to solve really hard problems, not just detect them
Strong motivation to decompose complex systems and understand how they work
Able to work with remote and international team members

How your work impacts the Organization

Advanced Process Solutions (APS) enables digitization of business units by designing, building and
maintaining the technology platforms and products for Fidelity. APS unit is a more recent and highly
potential unit with over 250 associates located in Boston, SaltLake, New Hampshire, Merrimack, Westlake,
as well as India and Ireland. The current position is for a key initiative that is being driven across APS.
The Expertise we’re looking for

6-8 years of Performance engineering experience against large-scale end-to-end systems
Experience in Systems engineering on Unix, web and application servers
Experience in Performance testing of Cloud/AWS hosted applications
A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software engineering or related field

Location: Chennai

Shift Timings: Rotational basis

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