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Job Title: Senior Oracle Performance Engineer - Hybrid
Location: Austin, TX
Local Candidates Only
Note: Candidates with State or Federal Experience Required
We are seeking an experienced Senior Performance Engineer to join our team. This is a hybrid role based in Austin, TX, requiring onsite presence one day per week (Wednesdays) and remote work for the rest of the week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze and evaluate application, system, and ecosystem performance across multiple tiers, with a focus on the data tier in both cloud and on-prem environments.
- Identify performance and scalability bottlenecks, propose solutions, and implement fixes.
- Simulate user/system traffic, measure, evaluate, and analyze system behavior.
- Optimize code, queries, and system configurations to improve response time, scalability, and resource efficiency.
- Analyze and interpret Oracle wait events, AWR Raw data, trace files, and correlate insights with system behavior.
- Generate and analyze AWR, ASH, and ADDM reports.
- Predict system behavior under full load/stress based on representative loads.
- Present complex analysis, findings, and performance metrics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Conduct detailed root cause analysis (RCA) for performance issues.
- Forecast future performance needs based on application usage trends and growth projections.
Required Qualifications:
- 8 years of experience in analyzing and optimizing application performance.
- Expertise in identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks.
- 8 years of experience in Oracle wait interface and event analysis.
- 8 years of experience in tuning large Oracle databases (50 TB) in AWS.
- 8 years of experience with Oracle Exadata databases and clusters.
- Strong SQL tuning, Linux shell scripting, and session tracing skills.
- Proficiency in generating and analyzing AWR, ASH, ADDM reports.
- Ability to predict and extrapolate system behavior under different loads.
- Experience troubleshooting performance issues and optimizing database performance.
- Excellent technical writing, documentation, and diagramming skills (Visio, Erwin, MS Office Suite).
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across multiple teams.
Other Qualifications:
- 5 years of experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Experience using JIRA for tracking and managing development tasks.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Prior experience working with healthcare data, PII/PHI, and HL7.
- Experience in the healthcare industry.
Work Environment:
- Hybrid position: 4 days remote, 1 day onsite (Wednesdays) in Austin, TX.
- Must be local to Austin, TX.
If you are a performance engineering expert looking for a dynamic role with a hybrid work model, apply today!
PriceSenz is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.
