English
French
Spanish
Infrastructure Engineer / GCP / Kubernetes / Load Testing
Infrastructure Engineer / GCP / Kubernetes / Load Testing
Job ID: mrp-892587
New York, NY, US
Information Technology
Contract,
$70 - $95
On-site
Other/Non Classified
New York, NY, US
$70 - $95
Contract,
Other/Non Classified
On-site
Information Technology
Job details
A global technology organization is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer focused on Performance & Load Testing to support the consolidation of several major dining and restaurant technology platforms. This is a 6-month contract-to-hire opportunity with a strong preference for candidates who can work hybrid in New York City. Candidates based in Chicago may also be considered.
This engineer will help build highly scalable, reliable infrastructure as multiple dining solutions are brought together into a unified technology environment. The role combines GCP, Kubernetes, performance engineering, observability, and test automation, with opportunities to work with modern infrastructure and emerging AI technologies. It is ideal for someone who can do more than execute load tests and is comfortable building the environments, tooling, test data, and infrastructure required to make performance testing effective.
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Advanced experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting Kubernetes environments
- Experience with performance, scalability, and load testing for distributed applications
- Ability to build and configure performance testing environments
- Experience with test data setup, data seeding, and environment preparation
- Ability to execute, automate, and trigger performance/load tests
- Strong understanding of application and infrastructure observability
- Experience with monitoring platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Datadog
- Experience analyzing infrastructure and application performance to identify bottlenecks
- Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud infrastructure, containers, and application environments
- Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, infrastructure, and quality teams
Desired Skills & Experience
- Experience supporting high-volume consumer or transaction-based applications
- Experience with performance testing tools such as k6, JMeter, Gatling, or Locust
- Infrastructure-as-Code and automation experience with tools such as Terraform
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating performance tests into automated workflows
- Understanding of Kubernetes capacity planning, autoscaling, resource utilization, and performance tuning
- Experience working within restaurant technology, hospitality, marketplace, or e-commerce environments
- Exposure to AI-enabled engineering tools or modern AI technologies
- Experience supporting platform consolidation, migration, or large-scale modernization initiatives
What You Will Be Doing
Tech Breakdown
- 35% GCP & Kubernetes Infrastructure
- 30% Performance & Load Testing
- 20% Observability & Performance Analysis
- 15% Test Environment Automation & Data Seeding
Daily Responsibilities
- 40% Building and maintaining scalable performance-testing environments
- 25% Executing and automating load/performance tests
- 20% Monitoring results and troubleshooting performance bottlenecks
- 15% Collaborating with infrastructure, application engineering, and quality teams
#LI-CK2
I want more jobs like this in my inbox.
Similar Jobs
About Kelly
Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we’re obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it’s about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It’s the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It’s the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.Kelly is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and we take affirmative action to recruit, employ, and advance qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in the workforce. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to the Kelly Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California’s state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
Kelly may use AI-powered tools during the recruitment and hiring process. For full details, including how Kelly uses AI, your rights, and how to request a reasonable accommodation, visit the Recruitment Artificial Intelligence Notice.