Kforce has a client in Cincinnati, OH that is seeking a Level 3 Performance Engineer to join their team on a 12-month contract to hire basis. Local candidates are required. This person will mostly be working from home initially but could have days in the office required. Responsibilities: * Dive deeply into SW/HW systems to solve for performance issues and make architectural, design and coding recommendations where needed * Conduct Architectural & Technical reviews during software development life cycle and to identify potential bottlenecks and provide suggestions for performance improvements * Collaborating with development leads and project team to review and refine application NFRs, SLAs, & KPIs to create acceptance criteria and performance budgets necessary to measure, validate, and improve performance * Collaborating with developers to promote the concept of performance engineering during all phases of the SDLC to detect and correct performance issues earlier in the lifecycle * Monitoring application performance during performance tests or production usage using APM and other monitoring tools to isolate the fault domain, dive deep into application code, and identify root cause of performance issues * Profiling application performance from end-user perspective to inventory performance concerns and suggest tuning opportunities across the application stack * Performing deep dive JVM analysis examining garbage collection logs, heap dumps, and thread dumps as needed * Documenting performance findings and recommendations * Interacting with project teams, development, operations, and infrastructure resources to recommend solutions to remediate performance issues * Participating in re-architecture, redesign, and refactoring decisions to satisfy performance requirements * Developing dashboards and reports to provide ongoing visibility into the performance of client applications * Contributing learnings and experiences to the company's performance CoE