Software Engineer - Monitoring (AppDynamics) at Apex Systems (Austin, TX)

Software Monitoring Engineer - AppDynamics

Austin, Texas

3 Year Contract

MUST HAVES: 10 Years of Exp + Masters Degree OR 20 total years of experience

Basic Qualifications:

knowledge of and experience with the VA IT computing infrastructure and architecture. Senior Software/Systems Architect experience, Application/Infrastructure performance and availability program management experience. Must have demonstrated experience with managing and analyzing large volumes of data for predictive analysis.

• Minimum of 2 years hands-on experience with performance tuning, diagnostic or monitoring
• Minimum of 2 years hands-on design / development experience (e.g. Java, .Net, etc.)
• Minimum 1 year hands-on experience performance diagnostics tools (e.g. CA APM, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, etc.)
• Local to Austin

DESIRED Skills: (Specific to the actual work to be performed)

Desired Additional Skills and/or Certifications:

• Masters Degree or equivalent experience
• Previous Consulting experience
• Experience with distributed computing, Web Services, SOA, and JEE design concepts
• Experience delivering software designed for high concurrency, scalability, or availability
• Experience using Application Performance Management (APM) tools (e.g. AppDynamics, DynaTrace, New Relic, CA APM)
• Participant in Agile software development process
• Hands-on experience collecting performance data, analyzing, troubleshooting, and tuning
• Comfortable navigating UNIX/Linux command line to assess OS performance
• Hands on analysis, reverse engineering, debugging, and profiling Java code (e.g. Eclipse Profiler, Eclipse TPTP, JProbe, JProfiler, Yourkit, VisualVM, Valgrind, NetBeans profiler, JConsole, JBoss Profiler, JAMon, JRocket Flight Recorder)
• Experience debugging web applications using HTTP proxy or browser-plugin tools (e.g. Firebug, Chrome Developer Tools, Fiddler, HTTPWatch, HTTP Analyzer, Charles, YSlow)
• Experience analyzing the performance and health of a JVM or Application Server (e.g. IBM WebSphere, Oracle AS, BEA WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, Glassfish)
• Experience with usage of common application protocols and messages (e.g. TCP/IP, HTTP, SOAP, RESTful APIs, XML/JSON, JDBC, JMS/MQ)
• Experience analyzing network messages using a packet capture tool (e.g. WireShark,TcpDump, WinDump)
• Experience with SQL development and tuning
• Exposure to Cloud, SaaS, and virtualization concepts and performance concerns
• Exposure to application threading and concurrency concerns
• Working knowledge of operating system design , processes, and threading model
• Ability to work in other languages such as JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, Perl, Python, Powershell, and Linux shell scripting

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