Johannesburg: Senior Performance Engineer – Telco Analytics posted by Sabenza IT & Recruitment

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Performance Engineer to join our team, ensuring our analytics systems can handle massive telco data loads efficiently and reliably. You will play a pivotal role in designing, testing, and optimizing high-performance systems to deliver actionable insights with minimal latency, supporting the rapid growth and demands of modern telco operations.

Key Responsibilities:

       Design, implement, and optimize high-performance analytics systems to handle large-scale telco data.

       Monitor and analyze system performance to identify bottlenecks and ensure scalability.

       Collaborate with data architects, engineers, and analysts to enhance system reliability and efficiency.

       Conduct performance testing, benchmarking, and load testing for new and existing solutions.

       Recommend and implement best practices for system tuning, capacity planning, and resource optimization.

       Troubleshoot and resolve performance issues across the analytics stack, including databases, pipelines, and visualization tools.

       Stay up-to-date with emerging performance engineering technologies, tools, and methodologies.

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience:

       Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

       Proven experience as a Performance Engineer, Systems Engineer, or similar role in telco or large-scale data environments.

       Strong expertise in performance testing tools, profiling, and monitoring solutions.

       Experience with big data technologies, analytics platforms, and distributed systems.

       Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Scala.

       Solid understanding of databases, ETL processes, and cloud-based analytics environments.

       Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.