Senior Performance Engineer

at  VML

WHO WE ARE:

At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an ever-evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse.
Our global family now encompasses over 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences. Our expertise spans the entire customer journey, offering deep insights in communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology. We deliver end-to-end solutions that result in revolutionary work.

IF YOU KNOW SOME OF THIS, EVEN BETTER:

• Ecommerce platform expertise and experience performance testing and analysis on IBM WebSphere Commerce, SAP Hybris or Magento and SOLR, Fredhopper or other search services.
• Experience setting up performance monitoring using Grafana, APMS or other tooling.
• Experience implementing performance testing in a continuous delivery environment.
• Scripting (perl, awk, python etc.)
• Exposure to Java or PHP
• Experience with Apache Tomcat, JBoss
• Experience with other load generation tools eg LoadRunner, CloudTest or NeoLoad
• Experience in front end page load analysis and profiling and optimisation using Webpagetest, Pagespeed, Speedcurve, sitespeed.io or other tools.

AT VML ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS

Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.
We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.
As our business grows internationally, we’re looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client’s successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.
In our Lisbon or Porto office, you’ll join a team of other specialists who are always ready to help each other. The team is part of our Enterprise Solutions network and works in coordination with our Local and EMEA client leads.

You will be involved in the defining and creating performance scripts, executing the performance testing and then analysing, in detail, the results, and identifying problematic features and making recommendations to the wider team to resolve these.
This is a key role, responsible for the delivery and support of many high-profile eCommerce systems. The challenges you will face include different architectures, application components and their interaction.