Principal Performance Engineer Sre

ADP is hiring a Principal Performance Engineer – SRE

• Are you empathetic to client needs and inspired by transformation and impacting the lives of millions of people every day?
• Are you looking to join a dynamic, inclusive team environment with a culture of collaboration and belonging? 

Well, this may be the role for you. Ready to design what’s next?

In this role, you will build innovative and flexible cloud solutions for the automation, execution, and implementation of processes that deliver products more quickly to market across ADP’s cloud-based payroll, tax, HR, and benefits solutions, while keeping them highly reliable and available.

No two days are the same. As part of a systems reliability team, you’re the first one they call from an operations standpoint to understand why an app is down. In this hands-on role, collaborate with Application Architects, Developers, Testers, and System Engineers to capture functional and non-functional requirements in order to achieve high performance goals, you’ll work side-by-side with the architecture and product development to design and implement CI/CD pipelines and Cloud initiatives. Every day will require you to be agile, adaptable, and fluid.

To thrive in this role:
– You’ll need experience creating, executing, or troubleshooting end-to-end automation scripts for the cloud. You should feel confident running the process end-to-end.
– You are also confident migrating data and managing change within an organization.
– You have come up through the ranks as a full-stack engineer and are passionate about automation.
– You have experience writing the code and building fully automated, highly elastic, cloud-orchestrated platforms over various IaaS providers like AWS, GCE, and/or Azure, or using on-premise solutions like OCP (RedHat OpenShift Container Platform). 
– Expert in performance testing strategies, practices, frameworks, Strong experience with testing tools, monitoring and load simulators (HP Performance Tester/LoadRunner, JMeter, Selenium, or similar)
– Strong experience with application telemetry, monitoring and tracing solutions (Splunk, CA Wily, or similar)

– Expert-level skills in Python and Groovy are necessary, and some experience with Java/JVM, the Spring Ecosystem, Service Mesh/Istio, Hashicorp Vault, etc. 
– You should also possess significant experience with Cloud (AWS, EKS RDS), Containerization (K8S), Orchestration (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Helm Charts), Clustering, CICD tools, etc.

You’ll have a hands-on role designing, developing, debugging, and deploying software solutions where you can leverage your expertise with code complexities.

You’ll also serve as a mentor to the junior developers. In the senior role, you will balance the assigning of user stories through prioritization and consideration of the technical interests of each developer on the team. As part of our team, you’ll find exciting challenges, get opportunities to grow your career, and develop solid friendships as we design what’s next for ADP and the industry. Pace should not scare you. We still find time for a healthy dose of fun.

Like what you see? Apply now!
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A little about ADP: We are a global leader in HR technology, offering the latest AI and machine learning-enhanced payroll, tax, HR, benefits, and much more. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating an inclusive, down-to-earth culture that welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. ADP has a deep commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as a global Best Places to Work, DiversityInc® Top 50 Company, Best CEO and company for women, LGBTQ+, multicultural talent, and more. Learn more about ADP’s commitment on our YouTube channel: http://adp.careers/DEI_Videos

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Here’s what you can expect on a typical day:

• Scrums. You’ll start each day with a scrum, working in a team to understand responsibilities, identify issues, and communicate coding priorities while choosing user stories to complete. You will also participate in other agile ceremonies, including scheduled sprint demos.
• Collaboration and Communication.You’ll be the point person for developers and operations when they need to find a solution quickly. You’ll listen to their needs, find a solution and share it. You’re comfortable presenting to leadership everything from system designs to new ideas for echnology to production incidents.
• Design and implement extensions to our existing performance testing framework.
• Design, implement and drive the adoption of new performance testing tools and processes.
• Design, implement and drive the adoption of performance testing on the cloud (AWS)
• Drive the preparation of performance testing environments, including the acquisition of large data volumes for “prod-like” testing.
• Create new solutions in order to push the boundaries of our automation capabilities, integrating performance testing with our CI/CD pipelines
• Generate proper designs, diagrams and documentation of the implemented solutions.
• Generate reports on performance test results, providing insights and recommendations for improvements.
• Provide technical leadership and coaching to other team members.
• Use Agile methods (Scrum/Kanban) to organize project deliverables, to track, to follow-up and to report progress.
• Code Review. Working in three-week sprints, you’ll ensure that developer code runs through automation scripts with no errors and can automate scale for demand.
• CI/CD. You’ll be part of the team that designs and implements extensions to our existing DevOps and CI/CD tools to help usable products get to market faster through accurate automation.
• Variety of work.There is no typical day. You could be checking in with a team in India one minute, meeting with leadership to review initiatives for the coming quarter later and tomorrow handling a few ad hoc requests from your peers in other departments.
• Change. You’re comfortable working on products with tech never used before. Inevitable challenges will arise, and we’ll rely on you to look for a solution. Fail fast, fail safely.
• Influence and inspire confidence. You are comfortable presenting to senior leaders, product owners, and peers with a compelling voice that you demonstrate through executive presence, leading change, and creating clear executive-level communications on milestone achievements. 
• Experience. You have 12+ years of experience in relevant skills gained and developed in the same or similar role.

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:

• You’ll have a Bachelor’s degree OR equivalent.

YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE BECAUSE YOU CAN:

• Have courageous team collaboration. Courage comes from how associates are willing to have difficult conversations, speak up, be an owner, and challenge one another’s ideas to find the best solution.
• Deliver at epic scale. We deliver real user outcomes using strong judgment and good instincts. We’re obsessed with the art of achieving simplicity with a focus on client happiness and productivity.
• Be surrounded by curious learners. We align ourselves with other smart people in an environment where we grow and elevate one another to the next level. We encourage our associates to listen, stay agile, and learn from mistakes.
• Act like an owner & doer. Mission-driven and committed to leading change, you will be encouraged to take on any challenge and solve complex problems. No tasks are beneath or too great for us. We are hands-on and willing to master our craft.
• Give back to others. Always do the right thing for our clients and our community and humbly give back to the community where we live and work. Support our associates in times of need through ADP’s Philanthropic Foundation.
• Join a company committed to equality and equity. Our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions.

What are you waiting for? Apply today!
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