Infrastructure Engineer Performance & Load Testing

Infrastructure Engineer Performance & Load Testing

Job Role: Infrastructure Engineer Performance & Load Testing

Location: New York City NY (Hybrid)

Job Description: Our squad that needs an Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Performance & Load Testing to manage and scale our automated performance testing infrastructure on GCP and this role you will be responsible for provisioning isolated production-grade test environments automating high-volume data seeding orchestrating scalable load executions and leveraging modern observability tools to monitor infrastructure health under peak stress. Qualifications &

Required Skills:- Hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and container orchestration using Kubernetes (GKE).- Proficiency in Terraform Helm or Kubernetes manifests for environment setup and lifecycle management.- Strong experience configuring Grafana Prometheus or Datadog to monitor alert and trace performance metrics during stress testing.- Experience building pipelines for database seeding cleanup and synthetic dataset management (SQL/NoSQL).- Familiarity with triggering and scaling distributed load-testing tools (e.g. k6 operator Locust Gatling) on Kubernetes. Preferred Skills:- Experience embedding automated infrastructure provisioning and load-test execution into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions GitLab CI Argo Workflows).- Experience optimizing GCP resource allocation and auto-scaling rules for cost-effective load generation.- Strong proficiency in Python Bash or Go for infrastructure automation and custom telemetry exporters.