Web Performance Lead Specialist

Job Title: Web Performance Lead Specialist
Location: Cary North Carolina
Experience: 12 Years
Employment Type: Contract
Interview Type: In-Person or Webcam

We are looking for an experienced Web Performance Lead Specialist who can optimize monitor and improve the performance and scalability of large-scale web applications. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in front-end performance engineering web system architecture monitoring tools performance profiling and resolving complex bottlenecks. This role will collaborate closely with architecture development infrastructure security and DevOps teams to enhance digital experience quality application reliability and user satisfaction.

You will be responsible for leading performance audits defining performance standards creating optimization strategies and ensuring high-performing web delivery across platforms and environments.

• Lead end-to-end performance engineering initiatives for web applications services and user interfaces.

• Analyze diagnose and resolve performance issues including latency caching rendering asset optimization and backend response times.

• Define performance benchmarks metrics and best practices for web delivery and page load optimization.

• Conduct performance testing (load stress scalability volume endurance) and implement automation where applicable.

• Review architecture and code to identify performance deviations and propose optimization strategies.

• Collaborate with product development UX and infrastructure teams to ensure performance-aware design and development.

• Implement and optimize caching strategies (CDN server-side browser caching edge caching).

• Monitor web performance and availability using industry-standard tools and develop dashboards and reporting.

• Conduct regular performance audits document findings and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

• Research emerging web performance technologies and recommend adoption for enterprise-scale solutions.

• Lead root cause analysis and incident resolution for production performance issues.

• Minimum 12 years of hands-on experience in web performance engineering and optimization.

• Strong understanding of modern web technologies including HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript React/Angular/Vue REST APIs microservices and responsive design.

• Experience with performance analysis tools such as Lighthouse WebPageTest Chrome DevTools GTmetrix New Relic AppDynamics Dynatrace Datadog and Splunk.

• Expertise in performance testing tools including JMeter LoadRunner K6 or similar.

• Deep knowledge of web performance metrics such as Core Web Vitals TTFB FCP LCP CLS TTI TBT latency throughput and caching strategy.

• Strong background working with CDNs such as Akamai Cloudflare Fastly or AWS CloudFront.

• Experience optimizing images fonts third-party scripts network utilization and rendering pipelines.

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools (Jenkins GitLab Azure DevOps Docker Kubernetes).

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP).

• Ability to lead performance strategy and collaborate with cross-functional technical teams.

• Excellent problem-solving analytical communication and documentation skills.

• Experience with distributed systems and high-traffic environments.

• Knowledge of edge computing serverless architecture and micro-frontends.

• Certification in cloud or performance engineering.