Seeding an Application Performance Engineer to support the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) team in Washington, DC. The Application Performance Engineer's primary responsibilities include providing architecture design, planning, implementation and oversight for the IT monitoring environment for on premise and cloud applications.

Job Duties

• Expanding the Application Performance Monitoring program to improve application performance, availability, and resiliency through real-time monitoring

• Work with internal teams and vendors to build a solution that includes network, systems, and application performance dashboards

• Define the monitoring tools, design, and configuration needed to meet the needs of the organization and customers

• Assist in developing / updating documentation including service catalog, implementations, configurations, processes, and policies.

• Identify, analyze and resolve the most complex public and hybrid cloud-based issues. Identify and balance risks and rewards to meet objectives.

   

  Required Education & Experience:

  Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience; or 8 years of experience in lieu of degree; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience

  Advanced experience with application performance monitoring tools such as Splunk, Azure Monitor, Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM), AppDynamics

  Advanced scripting knowledge and experience including regular expressions, bash, PowerShell, and Python

  Experience in Unix / Linux and Windows Environment

  Experience in integration design supporting mission critical business processes

  Experience with system capacity monitoring and forecasting applications

  Experience with AWS or Azure administration

  Experience with network & firewall topology

  Proven track record of automating processes and developing effective QA measures that include performance testing, capacity management, and reporting

  Understanding of industry standard system architecture and system management concepts and tools

  Experience in the design, deployment, and support of large, complex systems

  Clearance: Must be able to attain Public Trust