Capacity Planning Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop and implement capacity planning strategies for AWS environments, focusing on EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).

• Conduct continuous load testing to assess system performance under varying conditions and identify potential bottlenecks.

• Analyze system metrics and usage patterns to forecast future capacity needs and recommend scaling solutions.

• Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure application performance aligns with business objectives.

• Design and execute automated testing frameworks to simulate real-world usage scenarios.

• Monitor cloud resource utilization and optimize costs while maintaining performance standards.

• Prepare detailed reports on capacity trends, load testing results, and recommendations for improvements.

• Stay updated on industry best practices and emerging technologies related to cloud infrastructure and capacity management.

• 8+ years of proven experience with AWS services, particularly EKS, EC2, S3, and RDS.

• Strong understanding of container orchestration and microservices architecture.

• Experience with continuous load testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling) and performance monitoring solutions.

• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation tasks.

• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data sets.

• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Essential Skills

• AWS Ecosystem EKS, EC2, DynamoDB, Lambda, etc.

• Dynatrace (or similar)The capacity planning team should include some members with Dynatrace experience, while the rest can have experience with similar tools.

• Develop and implement capacity planning strategies.