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# Senior Performance Engineer

- **Company:** CYNET SYSTEMS INC.
- **Location:** San Antonio, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $93,600.0 - $104,000.0
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Databases, Apache JMeter, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Datadog, Google Cloud, Performance Testing, Grafana, Containerization, Kubernetes, Performance Monitor, Appdynamics, Dynatrace, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/0e4adb1f-3441-4ddc-97e9-74869a3d3094

## About the Role

Experience in Performance Testing/Engineering, with strong expertise in Apache JMeter and enterprise-scale performance validation. Preferred skills include leadership, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills, with experience in Banking, Financial Services, or high-volume transaction systems preferred.

## Description

* Design and lead performance testing strategy, frameworks, standards, and best practices across applications, APIs, microservices, and cloud platforms.
 * Develop and execute load, stress, endurance, scalability, volume, and capacity testing to ensure application reliability and performance.
 * Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and support continuous performance monitoring and optimization.
 * Analyze application, database, infrastructure, and network performance to identify bottlenecks and drive performance improvements.
 * Demonstrate experience with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform), container technologies (Docker/Kubernetes), and observability tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, or AppDynamics.
 * Possess strong knowledge of Performance Engineering, Capacity Planning, SRE, Root Cause Analysis, and Performance Tuning in distributed and cloud-native environments.