Senior Application Performance Engineer/Dynatrace SME to monitor application health and troubleshoot issues - 39028

Senior Application Performance Engineer/Dynatrace SME to monitor application health and troubleshoot issues - 39028

Location Address: Hybrid - 44 King - 3 days/week onsite (days will vary depending on team)

Subject to change: 3-4 days onsite may be required based on business needs

Contract Duration: 6 months (Must convert to FTE)

Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week

Story Behind the Need

Business group: Global Banking and Markets Engineering (GBME) is the fast-moving, award-winning technology engine that powers bank’s Corporate, Investment Banking and Capital Markets businesses.

Project: GBME is searching for an Application Performance Engineer (Dynatrace) who is a continuous learner and is eager to boost capabilities of capital markets products and analytics platforms.

Typical Day in Role:

In partnership with peer engineers, business partners, and the various GBME teams, you will:

• Utilize Dynatrace to monitor application health and troubleshoot issues.

• Implement performance monitoring strategies for GBM applications.

• Conduct performance testing (load, stress, endurance) and analyzing results to identify bottlenecks

• Collaborate with development teams to optimize code, queries, and configurations for better performance.

• Provide recommendations for capacity planning and scalability improvements.

• Develop dashboards and reports to communicate performance metrics to stakeholders.

• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis for performance-related issues.

• Stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies in application performance engineering.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 10+ years of experience in application performance engineering or related role.

2) 7+ years’ experience with Dynatrace

3) 5+ Experience with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner).

4) 5+ Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud environments.

5) 5+ Experience with scripting languages (Python, Shell) and automation frameworks.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Experience with some automated deployment.

• Understanding of observability principles

• Capital Markets product knowledge - margins, derivatives, - as working on capital markets applications, any knowledge will be helpful

• Cloud, Kubernetes experience

• Experience monitoring batch

• Experience working with real-time, high availability and low latency systems

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Best VS. Average Candidate:

The ideal candidate brings a strong technical foundation and a deep observability mindset. They are passionate about Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with a focus on building reusable, efficient, and scalable environments while thriving in an innovative, cross-functional team setting.

Key differentiators for the best candidate include:

Expert-level proficiency in Dynatrace, serving as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the tool.

Skilled in creating dashboards, defining KPIs and SLAs, and configuring plugins.

Capable of monitoring third-party integrations within Dynatrace and enabling other SREs to leverage these capabilities effectively.

Candidate Review & Selection - Interview Process

2 rounds - 1 hour - in person at 44 King

1st with HM

2nd with GBME