Overview

Join to apply for the Senior Performance Test Engineer role at Graphics Unlimited (Vic) Pty Ltd

Pay up to £71,017, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

We are looking for a Senior Performance Test Engineer to join our community of tech experts. We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by millions of people.

The scale of what we do is significant, and our purpose is to deliver reliable, scalable systems. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Significant demonstrable experience as a Performance Test Engineer / Lead in an agile team with a pragmatic, strategic mindset focused on system scalability and sustainability
• Extensive experience in performance testing APIs, UIs, microservices and enterprise databases (e.g. MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle)
• Detailed working knowledge with practical experience in identifying performance bottlenecks across application and infrastructure layers
• Strong working knowledge of performance testing tools (JMeter and K6) and performance monitoring tools like Grafana, Kibana, Kiali, Prometheus and AWS CloudWatch
• Familiarity with IaC and modern DevOps practices

The role

If you’re passionate about ensuring systems run smoothly under pressure and want to help build services that millions rely on, this could be the role for you. You’ll be part of an agile, forward-thinking team on high-impact projects. You’ll lead performance testing across key services, work with developers and architects, and contribute to test automation and CI/CD integration. It’s a hands-on role where you’ll shape strategy, mentor others and help us stay ahead of the curve. You’ll work with tools like JMeter or K6, have experience with AWS and Kubernetes, and know your way around Git pipelines.

Details, Wages, Perks

Location: You will join us in one of our digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We operate a hybrid model – some time at home and some time in a hub.

Pay: Up to £71,017.

Pension: Civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97% (approx. £16,000 per year).

Holidays: 26 days rising to 31 days over time, plus up to 3 extra flexi-time days and usual holidays.

Benefits: Flexible working, volunteering and charitable giving, diversity and inclusion initiatives, discounts, and professional development opportunities.

Process

Our application and selection process is two stages:

Apply: Complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There will be full instructions when you click through.

Interview: A single-stage online interview.

Click Apply for more information and to start your application.