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Cloud Application Performance Engineer in Barcelona

Travelport

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Job Description

WHERE DOES THE ROLE FIT IN TRAVELPORT SMARTPOINT CLOUD?
• Here in Travelport we’re looking for a talented Senior Performance Engineer to bring energy, skills and drive to lead up performance improvements to our Smartpoint point of sale Product line.
• Reporting to Software Engineering Management, you’ll work in a fast-paced agile environment and strengthen Quality within the organization.
• To drive Quality and performance standards within the Travelport Smartpoint products through working with our Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• This role requires an experienced candidate to support and mentor developers and performance engineers in the Travelport Smartpoint teams and to own & drive high quality software deliverables
• This is a hands-on role and we are looking for a great communicator at all levels of the business.


WHAT WILL I BE DOING?
• Work with the Software Engineering Management and other Smartpoint stakeholders (Team Leads, Architecture, Product Management, UX etc.) to build performance quality into the project from the ground up, improving continuous integration and speed to production
• Hands-on automated performance testing within the assigned project team (approx. 70% of your time)
• Mentoring other Performance Engineers in the team to continually improve performance engineering for our product
• Mentor and support developers (locally and remotely based) working on the agile project teams to build performance testing into how they delivery product features for the business – “Shift Left Performance Testing”
• Advise on industry standard metrics and identify optimisations and improvements
• Review Smartpoint teams’ component test execution progress and quality deliverables
• Monitor and compile regular Automation Performance test results and communicate these to the project team
• Complete root cause analysis of performance issues
• Escalate issues appropriately to out stakeholders
• Work with a variety of test tools – Jira, Jenkins, Confluence, Test Case Management system, CI/CD pipelines, etc.
• Evaluate new performance tools & processes and introduce tangible improvements to quality
• Documenting performance enhancements to performance environment and CICD pipelines
• Continual involvement in the estimation & planning of performance feature and user stories for each release, including identifying quality risks and constraints.


SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Technical Skills
Essential to have experience of:
• 5+ years as a Performance Engineer
• Experience in Agile methodology and delivering performance improvements within sprint timelines
• Strong communicator both written and verbally
• Experience with JavaScript, Java and/or .Net based application monitoring and optimization. Knowledge of performance challenges associated with these programming languages is beneficial. Valued engineering experience includes:
o Profiling – inclusive of infrastructure utilization
o Threading Analysis
o Bottleneck analysis
o Tuning
• Experience with Performance Analysis/Troubleshooting
• Experience in understanding and explaining metrics from high-level monitoring systems like AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Splunk, AppInsights and other monitoring tools. Ability to interpret metrics for stakeholders from these types of tools is a must.
• Ability to design meaningful workload for load test and show ability of researching system usage patterns and identifying key system performance requirements
• Experience in Performance, Load, Stress, Scalability, and Destructive Testing
• Strong experience summarizing large amount of metrics into meaningful graphs and reports for varying levels understanding, including designing and improving reports to suit the audience.
• Strong experience using Performance tooling such as LoadRunner (preferred), Gatling, JMeter/Blazemeter
• User level or higher experience of Unix/Linux
• Strong experience in Performance Testing web applications and server applications
• Strong experience in Performance Testing of microservices architecture
• Knowledge of Web Browser profiling of graphical user interfaces and web based services
• Strong experience in performance testing and monitoring on cloud based solutions (Azure and AWS) and demonstrate knowledge of cloud based tooling which can support performance testing
• Version control systems such as GIT
Familiar with:
• Experience with JVM monitoring, GC Analysis, and optimization – Java experience is nice to have
• Experience with profilers, debuggers, and memory analysis tools (JS-Profiles, JConsole, JProfiler, MAT, JHAT, YourKit etc.)
• Experience with statistical extrapolation, presentation, and comparison
• Proficiency in shell scripting
• Proficiency in Javascript, Java or .Net development or better
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• Broad knowledge of development tools & techniques
• Continuous Integration & tools used for CI such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps or TeamCity
Education & Qualifications
• Degree in Computer Science/ Engineering or related technical field or relevant experience

About Us

Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform. Our next-generation virtual marketplace connects travel buyers and travel sellers, that share our passion for delivering exceptional travel experiences.

Unconflicted and independent, we are re-inventing a simpler future for travel’s complex ecosystem.

Our platform gives the industry the power to help people see the world. We make it simple for businesses like airlines, hotels, and car rental companies to connect to agencies and travelers, through personalized and engaging content.

We are a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities and customers we serve. We are socially responsible, and we give back to our communities.

We encourage our people to think differently and have the courage, confidence, and ambition to challenge what has been done before.

Travelport is on a mission to make Travel easier and more rewarding for everyone.

About the Team

Content is a key part of our Technology strategy. The focus of the Content Delivery and Services team is to serve our customers with high-quality, relevant and differentiated content.

The Content Delivery and Services team is dedicated to designing, building and optimizing all content and merchandising capabilities across Air, Hotel, Car and Rail content channels and Digital Media. Additionally, the group works with the Links Application Development team to establish, maintain and optimizes all link-related applications development and connectivity to our air, hotel and car suppliers along with their host systems.

Finally, we serve as the delivery team for ACT, which delivers IT services and products directly to a core set of airline customers as a value stream for Travelport. This includes products and services for pricing, hosting, merchandising, IROP and more.


*Please note that if your application is progressed, you may be asked to complete a self-recorded video interview, at a time that works best for you. This is your chance to bring your skills & experience to life in your own words and style. Ensure you keep an eye on your junk folder just in case our invitation finds its way there.*

We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.

 

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