Software Engineer 3
I.  DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES


Texas Health and Human Services Commission requires the services of 1 Software Engineer 3, hereafter referred to as Candidate(s), who meets the general qualifications of Software Engineer 3, Applications/Software Development and the specifications outlined in this document for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.

All work products resulting from the project shall be considered "works made for hire" and are the property of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission  and may include pre-selection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Candidates) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by Texas law. Texas Health and Human Services Commission will pay no fees for interviews or discussions, which occur during the process of selecting a Candidate(s).

 

Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes. Investigates problem areas. Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.

 

The Department of Information Resources (DIR) requires the services of One Performance engineer hereafter referred to as Worker, who meets the general qualification of Developer 3 Emerging and the specifications outlined in this document for Health & Human Services Commission - Social Services Applications team.

 

All work products resulting from the project shall be considered “works made for hire” and are the property of the HHSC. HHSC may include pre-selection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Workers) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by the Texas law. HHSC will pay no fees for interviews or discussions, which occur during the process of selecting a Worker(s).

 

· Analyzes and evaluates application, system and ecosystem performance and scalability across multiple tiers with particular emphasis on the data tier in both cloud and on-prem environments. 

· Identifies performance and scalability bottlenecks and issues and propose solutions to resolve the same.

· Simulates user/system traffic/load using scripts or other mechanisms, measure, evaluate and analyze component behavior.

· Optimizes code, queries, and system configurations to improve response time, scalability, and resource efficiency (CPU, memory, I/O).

· Analyzes and interprets Oracle wait events, AWR Raw data and trace and correlate observations and analysis to system behavior.

· Generates and analyzes AWR, ASH and ADDM reports.

· Extrapolates system behavior under representative load to predict system behavior under full load/stress.

· Extrapolates system behavior from application and data tier metrics.

· Communicates complex results, analysis, and metrics to diverse technical and non-technical audience.

· Evaluates and predicts future performance needs based on application usage trends, traffic patterns, and growth projections.

· Conducts detailed root cause analysis (RCA) on performance issues to pinpoint the underlying cause of slowdowns or failures.

II.  CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

 

Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
Years Required/Preferred Experience
8 Required Experience in Analyzing and evaluating application performance across multiple tiers
8 Required Experience with identification and solution implementation for performance and scalability bottlenecks and issues
8 Required Experience with Oracle wait interface and event analysis
8 Required Experience with Performance tuning of large Oracle databases in AWS (50+ TB)
8 Required Experience with large Oracle Exadata databases and clusters
8 Required Experience with Single node non-Exadata Database tuning
8 Required Experience with Linux shell scripting, SQL tuning and session tracing.
8 Required Experience with AWR, ASH, ADDM generation and analysis
8 Required Experience with Oracle AWR Raw data analysis and interpretation.
8 Required Experience Extrapolating system behavior under representative load to predict system behavior under full load/stress.
8 Required Experience with Presenting complex results, analysis, and metrics to a diverse audience of technical and non-technical personnel.
8 Required Experience with Troubleshooting performance bottlenecks and issues.
8 Required Knowledge of Oracle internals pertaining to database performance
8 Required Experience with understanding of application behavior, performance, and interaction patterns with DBs in relation to performance and scalability.
8 Required Experience with extrapolating application and data tier metrics to explain system behavior.
8 Required Experience with Technical writing and diagramming skills, including proficiency with modeling and mapping tools (e.g., Visio, Erwin), and the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and MS Project.
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