Performance Engineer

Permanent, Full-Time role. Salary: £30k - £55k per annum. Direct applicants only, no agencies please as we have preferred suppliers already. Spike are retail technology experts delivering end-to-end, go-live confidence for the biggest retail brands. This is an exciting opportunity to join Spike at a time when we are growing our Performance practice. We are looking for Performance Engineers to join us working as part of a team executing effective and professional technical engineering services across our growing client portfolio on different projects. You will use a wide variety of Performance Testing solutions, technologies, and tools and contribute to the achievement of business objectives by executing technical work with a level of supervision.

Key responsibilities:

• Contributes to the successful completion of technical areas within projects.
• Develops and executes performance testing throughout the complete development lifecycle, from project initiation through to delivery.
• Uses agreed standards and tools from agreed specifications, collaborates in reviews of specifications with others as appropriate.
• Takes responsibility for a certain technical area and conditions, selecting appropriate technical methods and applications for project use.
• Collates and reports information, investigates to define problems more accurately and identify trends and exceptions.
• Maintains the status of project responsibilities and works across teams to achieve goals.
• Accurately identifies project risks and reports effectively to relevant stakeholders.
• Manages issues, risks, actions, dependencies, and defects to the success of the project.

Required skills:

• Experience of delivering performance testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Experience of analysing performance issues in at least one performance test tool and experience of application and infrastructure monitoring tools.
• Ability to write Performance test plans, test approach and test reports.
• Experience in programming languages such as C, C#, Java, Python.
• Shows genuine interest in the business and clients, with a consistent focus to satisfy customer ambitions.
• Good client-facing skills, understands customer needs and reliable to deliver exceptional service.
• Good problem solving skills, has experience in proposing solutions and challenging clients to refine the best outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills, translates know-how into plain talking and easy to understand language.
• Developing knowledge and skills of technical engineering methodologies and has a good base in performance tools and platforms required to deliver, including JMeter and NeoLoad.
• Possesses theoretical knowledge as well as basic/intermediate level of practical knowledge within technical engineering.
• Has awareness of new and emerging developments within the technology and/or retail sector.

What we offer:

• Personal relationships - We know each other as individuals with social meet ups at least quarterly and a Director open door policy.
• Technical consultancy - Challenging technical work with varied projects/clients and internal knowledge management forums.
• True flexibility - Remote first approach delivering as teams for clients with expenses paid if needed to travel away from home.
• Shared purpose - Owned by practicing consultants with a hand-picked client base in line with Spike principles.
• Pick and mix benefits – Generous annual benefits allowance giving you the power to choose how and when you engage with benefits including modern perks & discounts.
• Genuine support – Career coach assigned on joining with career chats when you want them.

As well as:

• Competitive pay packages.
• Annual leave entitlement of 25 days + statutory public holidays.
• Day off for your birthday.
• L&D allowance and training days.
• Pension with auto-enrolment to pension scheme after 1 month.

Spike is an equal opportunities employer.