King Soopers/City Market · 21 hours ago
ADVANCED PERFORMANCE ENGINEER
Blue Ash, OH
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expKing Soopers/City Market is the nation's largest grocer, committed to innovation and community. They are seeking an Advanced Performance Engineer to automate and optimize cloud and Kubernetes test environments, ensuring high performance and reliability of applications.
Food ProcessingRetail
Responsibilities
Develop custom automation solutions and enhance performance testing frameworks using Java, integrating APIs where needed
Leverage Terraform to provision and manage cloud environments, and Helm to deploy and manage applications on Kubernetes clusters
Manage and optimize cloud resources on Azure or GCP, ensuring scalable and high-performance Kubernetes deployments
Administer, configure, and optimize NeoLoad to execute performance tests, analyze results, and generate actionable reports
Monitor application performance during performance tests or production usage using APM and other monitoring tools to isolate the fault domain, dive deep into application code, and identify root cause of performance issues
Monitor resource usage for physical servers, application servers and databases to drive optimization changes in production environment
Collaborate with development leads and project team to review and refine application NFRs, SLAs, & KPIs to create acceptance criteria and performance budgets necessary to measure, validate, and improve performance
Profile application performance from end-user perspective to inventory performance concerns and suggest tuning opportunities across the application stack
Interact with project teams, development, operations, and infrastructure resources to recommend solutions to remediate performance issues
Distill volumes of data, analyzes performance results, diagnoses performance problems and clearly characterize system performance to stakeholders
Develop shift left performance practices including execution of performance tests in Continuous Integration & Delivery pipeline
Execute end-user performance tests using selenium or similar automation tools to capture performance metrics on browser & mobile devices
Contribute learnings and experiences to the Kroger Performance Center of Excellence (CoE)
Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree computer science or related information technology field from an accredited institution or equivalent work experience
Strong proficiency in Java for custom automation and framework enhancements. Experience with API integrations to automate testing and infrastructure tasks
Experience with Terraform for cloud provisioning and Helm for Kubernetes application deployments. Solid understanding of IaC principles for environment consistency, scalability, and repeatability
Experience with Azure or GCP, including compute, networking, and storage services. Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker for deploying, scaling, and optimizing containerized applications in high-performance environments
Skilled in administering, customizing, and optimizing NeoLoad (or equivalent) for test execution, analysis, and performance reporting
Any experience with supplemental tools such as Fiddler, Firebug, YSlow and JProfiler
Any experience in Git usage and concepts
Any experience in SQL programming and SQL, NoSQL & graph databases
Any experience in analyzing error, system logs of Web and Application Server, Heap Dump, Thread Dump during failure to determine the cause of failure
Any experience in Web server, Application server and Database performance tuning
Any experience in REST/Soap Webservices with knowledge in API documentation such as swagger
3+ years performance testing/engineering experience
8+ years software product development and delivery experience
Proficient in load testing tools such as Neoload, JMeter, LoadRunner. (Neoload preferred) or similar industry tools
Familiar with Latest Cloud & Container Technologies including Docker and Kubernetes. (Azure is preferred)
Demonstrated experience in Web Applications and Services using JAVA/JAVA EE, Spring, and other related technologies
Ability to interpret and draw System & Architecture diagrams
Proficient in APM products such as Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics. (Dynatrace is preferred) or similar industry tools
Preferred
Any experience with creating test data and utilizing test data management tools
Any experience working in environments utilizing the OKR work process
Any experience with automated testing in a cloud environment
Familiarity with NoSQL Databases
Benefits
A wide range of healthcare coverage, including affordable, comprehensive medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage, through company plans or collective bargaining agreement plans.
Flexible scheduling in full- and part-time roles with paid time off, including holiday and sick pay based on eligibility and length of service.
Emotional and financial support with free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program and free, confidential financial tools and coaching with Goldman Sachs Ayco.
Valuable associate discounts on purchases, including food, travel, technology and so much more.
Up to $21,000 in tuition reimbursement over your career, through our industry-leading Continuing Education program.
Vast potential for growth, through an abundance of industry-leading training programs and diverse career pathways.
Company
King Soopers/City Market
King Soopers & City Market is Colorado's largest, full-service retail grocery chain. Our roots began in Colorado.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageRecent News
2025-12-19
Canada NewsWire
2025-08-26
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