[TriLUG] JOB: Web Performance Engineer

[Christopher L Merrill]

Working for Web Performance, you will be joining a small, fast paced company specializing in web
performance testing tools and testing services. As a Web Performance Engineer, your primary
responsibility is helping our customers test, measure and meet the performance goals for their websites.

Job duties will include:

     * Understanding each customer's application, infrastructure and their testing goals
     * Configuring and performing load tests of web-based applications and analyzing the results
     * Executing and analyzing performance tests of complex web software systems and publishing the
results
     * Support customers by reproducing customer configurations in our test lab and diagnosing
reported problems
     * Writing about website performance and load testing for articles, research papers, case studies
and our blog

Job Requirements:

     * Understanding of networking, including configuration on Windows and Linux
     * Basic understanding of the HTTP protocol
     * Ability to communicate clearly and effectively (written and verbal)
     * Ability to work in a fast-paced, startup environment

Desirable Skills:

     * Understanding of factors affecting the performance of web-based applications
     * Understanding of high performance configurations of operating systems and application servers
     * Experience configuring load balancers, firewalls, routers, web servers, etc.
     * Experience developing non-trivial web-applications (esp Java and .NET)

When you have proven your capabilities, this position can evolve to include:

     * Internal IT system development
     * Software development for the Load Tester product
     * Project management

Send your resume to jobs at webperformance.com. Principals only. No phone calls please.


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Chris Merrill                           |  Web Performance, Inc.
chris at webperformance.com                |  http://webperformance.com
919-433-1762                            |  919-845-7601

Web Performance: Website Load Testing Software & Services
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