System Performance Architect - Expert

Location: India, Pune (IN)

Experience Level: Expert

Description

Curious about what it’s like to work at Cognyte?

At Cognyte, you’ll collaborate with expert colleagues around the globe to solve problems most people will never even know exist!

You’ll be part of building unique solutions shaped by real investigative methodologies, enabling our customers to identify, investigate, visualize and prevent criminal, terror and security threats worldwide.

These solutions are used by law enforcement, national security, and national and military intelligence agencies in almost 100 countries to turn massive, diverse data into clear, actionable intelligence for a safer world.

We are seeking for a System Architect to join our NI (Network Intelligence) architecture group. This role requires proven experience with leading multidisciplinary design activities, as well as expertise in system performance, benchmarking, observability, and resource management. This role will be instrumental in designing scalable systems that are resilient under load, support auto-scaling, and provide deep visibility into operational metrics. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in performance engineering, cloud-native environments, and modern observability stacks.

 As a Cognyter, you will

• Architect and optimize systems for performance, scalability, and reliability across cloud-native and virtualized environments
• Design and guide load testing, benchmarking, and performance tuning of critical infrastructure and applications
• Implement observability solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar
• Develop resource management strategies, including dynamic and auto-scaling based on performance metrics
• Establish best practices for monitoring, alerting, and incident response
• Analyze system bottlenecks and recommend architectural improvements
• Define system specifications based on testing outcomes
• Collaborate closely with Engineering and DevOps teams to embed performance and observability in system design
• Stay updated on emerging technologies in observability, performance engineering, and cloud-native infrastructure

Requirements

For that mission you will need:

• BSc in computer science or equivalent degree 
• Proven experience as a System Architect or Solution architect in large-scale environments.
• Background in system performance engineering
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native architectures and auto-scaling mechanisms (e.g., Kubernetes HPA).
• Strong understanding of load testing tools and benchmarking methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with system of systems High-Level and Detailed design, decision making and leading design concepts to development.
• Strong understanding of networking, and virtualization technologies
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with configuration management
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Nice to Have

• Experience in capacity planning and sizing
• Certification in performance engineering
• Experience with distributed tracing and log aggregation tools
• Experience working in a global company
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies