Performance Engineer

Details

Work Location Type:
Hybrid
Office:
Sydney, Australia
Type of Employment:
Full Time Permanent
Reference Number:
TEC2266

About Kindred

Kindred Group is a digital entertainment pioneer bringing together nine successful online gambling brands, forming one of the largest online gambling groups in the world. Our purpose is to transform gambling by being a trusted source of entertainment that contributes positively to society. Our goal is that 0% revenue is derived from harmful gambling.

Our global team of more than 2000 people represents 70+ nationalities. When you join Kindred, you'll be part of a collaborative, diverse and inclusive team that has your best interest at heart. We are a trusting company that knows the value of a healthy work-life balance. We offer a wide range of benefits, along with annual bonus, which is tied to both company and your individual performance.

The role

As we continue to improve our growing platform, we're looking for a motivated Performance Engineer with excellent hands-on skills to join our TechOps team.

Initiative, resourcefulness, and autonomy are essential skills for this role. The Performance Engineer should be able to reliably, lead continuous improvement culture, and have the patience to communicate with a variety of interdisciplinary stakeholders.

Critical attributes for this role also include proactiveness, ability to quickly learn and pick up complex component integrations, manage many competing priorities and think outside the box.

You will know the development life cycle better than the back of your hand including Agile methodologies.

As a listed and regulated company, Kindred Group pays great attention to player safety and sustainability. Our purpose is to transform gambling by being a trusted source of entertainment that contributes positively to society. Our goal is that 0% of revenue is derived from harmful gambling.

What you will do

Infrastructure (Couchbase, Elastic, Kafka, Solace, Oracle, PostgreSQL).
Platform (K8, Isitio, AWS, OpenStack).
Source control (any git based tool).
Deployment tools (Jenkins).
Demonstrated ability to work independently, and learn quickly, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Gaming industry experience is desirable (Not mandatory).
Experience in test automation design with Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery tools like TeamCity, Bitbucket.

Your experience

Demonstrated experience with various performance testing tools such as JMeter (essential , Neoload , Load-runner, Gatling etc.
Hands-on experience with analysing performance metrics associated with throughput, latency, memory, CPU, disk & network and the ability to debug bottlenecks associated with any of them
Skilled in both the art and science of benchmark creation and measurement and modelling of system behaviour under load

Experienced designing Load, stress, Endurance, spike workload
Experience with Application performance monitoring tools such as Elastic APM , Instana , Newrelic , App Dynamics, Datadog (any 1 preferred)
Should be able to work/co-ordinate individually with engineering teams
Be a champion of change and innovation to improve all aspects of testing.
Support continuous integration through automation.
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with business and technical stakeholders.
Proven command of various software testing methods, levels, types, and processes and where they fit in the overall system and produce development lifecycles.

Our Way Of Working

Our world is hybrid.

A career is not a sprint. It’s a marathon. One of the perks of joining us is that we value you as a person first. Our hybrid world allows you to focus on your goals and responsibilities and lets you self-organise to improve your deliveries and get the work done in your own way.

Application Process

Click on the “Apply Now” button and complete the short web form. Please add your CV and covering letter in English to let us know your motivation for applying and your salary expectation. Our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch soon. Kindred is an equal opportunities employer committed to employing a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. As such we oppose all forms of discrimination in the workplace. We create equal opportunities for all our applicants and will treat people equally regardless of and not limited to, gender, ages, disability, race, sexual orientation. We are committed not only to our legal obligations but also to the positive promotion that equal opportunities bring to our operations as set out in our sustainability framework. Kindred has an ESG rating of AAA by MCSI.