Infrastructure Test Engineering Senior Analyst - Performance Engineering

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Pay and Benefits: 

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Impact you will have in this role:

You will be the member of Enterprise Product & Platform Engineering where that will transform the way of delivering infrastructure to our business clients. A key construction of EP&PE will be the evolution of the IT Product Manager, who will partner with Engineering Domains, Business Aligned Service Delivery organization, DevSecOps Domain and our operational support teams to ensure that IT PM&D provides high quality, commercially attractive and timely solutions to support our business strategy.

The Infrastructure Test Engineering Senior Analyst is responsible for design, development, and maintenance of automated and/or manual test solutions to validate Infrastructure changes or implementations. Collect requirements and set goals and objectives for performance testing. Identify the desired performance characteristics of the system resources including response time, throughput, and resource utilization. Infrastructure Test Engineering Senior Analyst will be part of the Infrastructure testing team within EPPE to provide and support the testing of Infrastructure changes or new implementations done by various engineering teams. The infrastructure requirements will be either to address applications’ infrastructure requirements or internal environments. Identify the software agents, hardware, and network configurations for testing. Provide technical leadership to the performance engineering. Work closely with the development team during performance testing/tuning, and coordinate troubleshooting efforts. Experience with conducting root cause analysis of performance issues and bottlenecks. Evaluate, deploy, operate, and maintain performance monitoring tools. This position requires excellent verbal, written and analytical skills to be able to interact with application development teams, business analysts/SME’s, business users and project managers to understand requirements and communicate status.

Your Responsibilities:

• Be a key technical player in contributing the architecture evolution of Infrastructure Test Automation Frameworks and related capabilities.
• Define, design, development, documentation and maintenance of tools and Automation Frameworks for current and Infrastructure Validations as part of an Agile team 
• Deliver end to end performance testing for projects independently, using Agile methodologies
• Perform the Performance Engineering test activities, standard of Operation enhancements. Provide strong leadership and detailed management of change, both on software agents and hardware and demand management. Correlate application release plans with Performance Engineering testing activities, status reporting, prioritize in concert with business needs and priorities.
• Partners with project stakeholders to ensure effective planning and requirements definition.
• Active participant in all phases of the project lifecycle. Work with project stakeholders during project definition to help the team understand risks, dependencies, and opportunities; participate in requirements definition and review; lend subject matter expertise to projects.
• Creates solutions and conduct performance tests to improve availability, performance, reliability, capacity and scalability in the system or database layers.
• Understands system’s technical architecture, and able to identify the performance implications for different layers of system based on design discussions or architecture documents.
• Review design documents and code to identify potential performance bottlenecks and defects.
• Maintains credibility in communication and takes actions on assigned responsibilities.
• Provide mentoring, knowledge transfer and assist in training of junior team members.
• Build reusable components to automate repeatable, manual activities.
• Support performance, resiliency, and recovery validation activities for applications and platforms, including availability, failover, scalability, and recovery testing across cloud, container, and hybrid environments.
• Participate in resiliency test planning and execution by supporting risk-based test scenarios, recovery validation, observability-driven analysis, and RTO/RPO verification activities.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to analyze performance and resiliency test results, document findings, and provide traceable test evidence for governance, audit, and operational readiness reviews.

 Talents Needed for Success:

• 2+ years of IT experience with proven expertise in performance engineering (analysis, testing, and tuning)
• Experience developing simulators in multiple languages, such as Java, PL SQL, Python for simulating performance load.
• Experience with performance diagnostics/monitoring tools such as DynaTrace or AppDynamics
• Experience with JMeter, LoadRunner or custom load generation tools
• Strong performance analysis skills, including system metrics and thread/heap dump analysis
• Broad experience with multiple middleware and data store technologies, such as message queues, relational databases, non-relational databases, caches, stream processing, batch processing
• Extensive knowledge of Linux operating system, especially process/system monitoring and performance measurement
• Experience with AWS cloud services are preferred
• In-depth experience with Java application servers is a huge plus
• Experience with JVM tuning of heap size and garbage collection is good to have
• Experience with database query optimization and analysis is a plus
• Familiarity with JMS or MQ
• Familiarity with log ingestion and analysis tools, such as Splunk
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins and source code control/repository is a plus
• Experience working with Agile development teams
• Basic knowledge of resiliency engineering concepts, including high availability, disaster recovery, failover validation, RTO/RPO objectives, and observability principles.
• Understanding resiliency and chaos testing approaches across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Understanding or exposure to resiliency and chaos engineering tools such as Gremlin, stress-ng, AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS), Azure Chaos Studio, or similar platforms is a plus.
• Experience in creating testing strategy and automation design document

Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.