Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Performance Manager in New York, NY

Tuesday, December 22, 2009
A large investment bank located in NYC is in need of a Performance Lab Manager/Engineer to assist with running a performance and reliability test lab.

Key Accountabilities:
Managing small focused team.
Setup test environment, tools, and procedures for performance
testing.
Coordinate testing activities, and interface to development and
production support.
The Performance Lab Manager will be primarily responsible for performing throughput, latency, and capacity measurements and reliability tests of an equity trading system.
The work will involve working directly with the trading application, scripting / programming, performing data analysis,
managing the performance lab, and producing reports.

Job Requirements: (Knowledge/ Experience):
Financial industry experience with Equity Trading systems and applications.
Performance analysis including throughput, latency, and capacity measurements; system reliability and failure recovery methods and procedures.
One or more programming (Object Oriented) and scripting languages.
Statistical and numerical analysis, and proficient with Microsoft Excel.
Candidate must have good team work ability, as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills.
The position demands a high level of responsibility and commitment and full time employment may be considered upon contract completion.
A strong knowledge of infrastructure issues such as servers, networks, data centers and application deployments.


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