Performance Test Lead/Performance Engineer - SC Cleared

Performance Test Lead/Performance Engineer - SC Cleared

Location: London or Leeds (50% onsite)
Contract: 12 Months
Rate: £300 per day
Start: 1st October 2026

We're recruiting a Performance Test Lead to join a major transformation programme. This is a Performance Engineering role-not a traditional performance testing position.

Essential Skills:

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• 5+ years' Performance Testing/Engineering
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• JMeter and/or LoadRunner
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• Performance analysis & bottleneck identification
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• NFR definition and performance strategy
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• Azure, AWS or GCP performance testing
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• Dynatrace or New Relic
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• Grafana & Splunk
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• Python Scripting
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• Jenkins/GitHub Actions and CI/CD
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• Docker & Kubernetes
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Desirable:

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• Databricks, Kafka, IBM MQ, ELK
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• Banking or Financial Services experience
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Requirements:

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• Active SC Clearance
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• 50% onsite in London or Leeds
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If you're a Performance Engineer with strong cloud, observability and performance optimisation experience, we'd love to hear from you.