Performance Engineer

This is what we offer you

• Gross monthly salary between EUR 3,712 and EUR 5,300 (scale 08) for a 36 hour week
• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance
• 10% Employee Benefit Budget
• EUR 1,400 development budget per year
• Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles)
• A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution

View all our benefits.

Do you have a vision on how to improve the end user experience for our users, so that they can efficiently use the application without performance issues?

As a Performance Engineer at Rabobank you are responsible for the stability, availability, and performance of applications. Besides major performance activities, you also implement change requests like upgrading and updating LRE. You will have contact with customers who ask for your advice and support and on top of that you will maintain and support LRE users.

As a Performance Engineer you make the difference. Within our Tech for Development area, we have 9 scrum teams who are responsible for helping 400+ development teams across the Globe with their ambitions. Your potential team specifically offers advice and help to improve these teams with standardized code scanning and repository management solutions.

• You are part of Engineering & Enterprise Tech division and are responsible for helping teams to continuously improve their development process;
• We advise and coach squads, offer expert knowledge and contribute to analyzing and optimizing performance bottlenecks in applications, software and cloud infrastructures.;
• You will be welcomed in an agile environment where we learn from our mistakes and where the importance of having fun is understood.

Responsibilities

As a Performance Engineer, you will provide ongoing support to multiple squads with their performance-related activities. Together with a colleague, you will act as the main point of contact for all matters concerning LoadRunner Enterprise and Application Performance. Your routine responsibilities will encompass the following activities:

• LoadRunner Enterprise administration(Users and Projects) and its maintenance(host upgrades/patch installations etc)
• Mentoring and Training DevOps teams and making them more autonomous in Performance Management
• Onboarding users to LoadRunner Enterprise and AutoLST(Automated Load Stress Testing: Inhouse tool)
• Helping squads to create CI/CD pipelines for automating their performance tests
• Identifying performance risks and requirements for new features
• Determining application load models and performance testing plans
• Support in the scripting, execution and analysis of performance load tests (Jmeter, Loadrunner Enterprise, AutoLST(Automated Load Stress Testing: Inhouse tool))
• Verify the stability and reliability of applications during exceptional situations (peak conditions,slow backends, fail over)
• Identifying key metrics and configuration of monitoring and alerting and analysing the end user experience and end-to-end response times in production
• Analyse and optimize performance bottlenecks in applications, software and architectures (Dynatrace APM, SignalFX, Splunk)

Qualifications

• Minimal 5 years of experience as performance engineer role in an Agile organisation
• Of which a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in a performance engineering role
• Experience in the scripting, analysis and execution of performance load tests using either Loadrunner or JMeter
• Experience with observability solutions similar to Dynatrace, Splunk and SignalFX
• Experience in using Azure cloud and setting up Azure DevOps pipelines
• Solid understanding of web application architectures and technology
• Solid understanding of the software development life cycle and DevOps
• Knowledge of API’s and related (test) tooling like OpenAPI, Wiremock is a plus
• Familiarity with Cloud-based load testing services like Azure Load Testing or distributed Load Testing on AWS is a plus
• Understanding of shift left and shift right testing approaches.

You and your talent

Within Tech4Dev we value integrity, an engineering focus, an ‘improvement and embracing change’ mind-set and openness. In addition, it is important that you are a team player, have leadership skills and recognise yourself in the checklist below:

• Great analytical skills
• Some programming skills
• Experience with Linux
• Fluent in English on a professional level
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• You are pro-active, hands on and have a practical mindset
• Involved in complex analysis and implementation questions
• Good communication skills to collaborate with colleagues and squad members
• Influence and persuade others with an open mindset

🚨 To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands or elsewhere in the EU and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.

A salary between €3.712,- and €5.300,- gross per month means up to €85.000,00 per year, including all benefits, based on knowledge and experience for a 40-hour work week (scale 8).