Hybrid Cloud Performance Analyst

Introduction
“As a Hybrid Cloud performance Analyst your responsibilities will include conducting experiments and analyses to detect performance bottlenecks managing performance aspects and uncovering optimization opportunities for every major release of IBM® Power® Virtual Servers’ (IBM Power systems in a cloud/ hosted virtualized environment) cloud management software built on Open stack.
This role requires expertise in Hybrid Cloud concepts computer system architectural design and performance analysis to ensure that our cloud delivers exceptional performance scalability and reliability to our customers.
The areas of work will be on characterization analysis and fine-tuning IBM® Power® Virtual Servers to help deliver optimal performance.

Your Role and Responsibilities
The role will include performance optimization where you will be responsible for advancing the product roadmap by using your expertise in Hybrid cloud performance characterization performance optimization and hardware architecture to analyse performance of software/hardware combinations.

• Use various Performance management tools for analysis and automation competitive study and analysis.
• Work closely with team members to design and develop performance testing tools and platforms.
• Participate in design & architecture performance defects related discussions with development teams
• Setup performance environments with IBM® Power® Virtual Servers and software stack
• Develop acceptable performance test reporting and process tools preferably open-source/home grown.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 8+ years of overall IT experience
• 3+ years of experience as a Software Performance Analyst
• Experience in Performance test execution analysis Tuning Optimization for Cloud management software stack
• Good Knowledge of Cloud architecture deployment models and services (IaaSPaaS)
• Strong expertise in virtualization technologies including hypervisors virtual machine management and resource optimization.
• Good knowledge on Computer system architecture system HW Operating System
• Python shell scripting automation REST and JSON test scripts development
• Good problem solving strong analytical and logical reasoning skills.
• Familiar with server performance management and capacity planning
• Familiar with performance diagnostic methods and techniques
• Strong Linux system skills

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience on Ansible would be an added value.
• Knowledge of IBM PowerVM Virtualization
• Knowledge of network protocols concepts and usage of networking tools.