Performance Tester | AWS + Gatling | Melbourne

I’m currently recruiting for an exciting Performance Engineer opportunity with a high-volume digital organisation in Melbourne.

This is a great chance for a performance engineer who enjoys going beyond simply running tests — getting into how systems behave under load, identifying bottlenecks, improving scalability and helping engineering teams build highly resilient platforms.

What you’ll be doing
Design and execute performance and load testing strategies
Develop and maintain performance test scripts and tooling
Analyse system behaviour across applications, APIs, data and infrastructure
Identify performance issues, bottlenecks and scalability risks
Work closely with engineering, delivery and operational teams
Contribute to capacity planning and usage modelling
Support the development of highly scalable, resilient and recoverable systems
Help develop performance engineering capability across the wider technology organisation
Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines

What we're looking for

Essential:




Solid commercial experience in Performance Engineering / Performance Testing
Hands-on experience with Gatling
Solid experience working with AWS / public cloud
Experience developing quality code and working with software development practices
CI/CD experience, ideally with Jenkins and/or GitHub
Strong Git experience
Good understanding of *nix/Linux environments
Ability to deep-dive into technical issues and drive resolution
4+ years' experience in performance engineering

Nice to have:
Python
AWS CloudFormation
JMeter or other performance testing tools
SQL
Log analysis / monitoring tools
Test automation frameworks

Why consider it?

This isn't a traditional QA role. You'll have the opportunity to work across the full technology stack, influence how systems are designed for scale, and play a key role in ensuring platforms can handle significant and unpredictable volumes.
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