Permanent, Full-Time role
Grade: Principal Consultant
Salary: £70k - £95k per annum

Direct applicants only, no agencies please as we have preferred suppliers already.

Spike are retail technology experts delivering end-to-end, go-live confidence for the biggest retail brands. Learn more about us here.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Spike at a time when we are growing our Performance Engineering practice.

We are looking for Principal Performance Engineers to join us working across our growing client portfolio on different projects using a wide variety of performance solutions, technologies, and tools. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of Performance across different clients and applications, the ability to work in complex and challenging environments, and strong stakeholder management skills.

Key responsibilities:

Own and manage performance test strategies, tools and techniques
Shaping, designing and planning the performance testing service line, including managing the rollout of new services/solutions
Maintaining a repository for performance testing delivery assets to support and encourage asset re-use
Define performance testing solutions and develop workload models, performance testing scripts and scenarios for a wide range of technologies used on our various client engagements
Determine & document detailed performance testing estimates and strategies to allow the Spike sales team to produce the necessary proposals and delivery plans
Supporting the Spike sales team in the pre-sales process
Assisting the marketing team to develop marketing materials and position strategies for the performance services and solutions in conjunction with the Spike marketing message framework
Conduct regular project visits and reviews to support Spike delivery assurance
Leading, guiding, training, and mentoring Spike consultants across our projects

Required skills:

Proven experience in defining and developing performance testing strategies and/or approaches for multiple projects
Agile Software Development Lifecycle Processes and Methodologies
Experience of Microservice architectures
Knowledge and experience of web and API load testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, NeoLoad, LoadRunner
Experience of integrating load and/or speed testing into CI/CD pipelines
Exposure to APM tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, NewRelic, Application Insights
Exposure to data analysis and visualisation tools such as Kibana, Grafana
As required, able to be hands-on in all aspects of performance testing
Previous experience working in the retail industry (optional)

What we offer:

Personal relationships - We know each other as individuals with social meet ups at least quarterly and a Director open door policy
Technical consultancy - Challenging technical work with varied projects/clients and internal knowledge management forums
True flexibility - Remote first approach delivering as teams for clients with expenses paid if needed to travel away from home
Shared purpose - Owned by practicing consultants with a hand-picked client base in line with Spike principles
Genuine support – Career coach assigned on joining with career chats when you want them

As well as:

Competitive pay packages
Annual leave entitlement of 25 days + statutory public holidays
Day off for your birthday
Pension with auto-enrolment to pension scheme after 1 month

Spike is an equal opportunities employer