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Capita's Children Education Services based in Bedford are currently looking for a Senior Performance Engineer to be based from their Bedford site. SIMS is part of the DSS Division of Capita Group, the second largest Software business in the UK. SIMS develops and markets Management Information System ("MIS") software for Schools in the UK and abroad and is a market leader in this sector. SIMS are in the process of developing a very significant and ground-breaking cloud-based MIS system which will ultimately replace our existing market leading product which will support 22k+ schools. The Senior Performance Engineer will ensure that the solution scales cost effectively and delivers a responsive, performant user experience to our users. The role is based in Bedford, but there is a requirement to be able to travel to India (roughly twice a year) where some of the team are located. Key Responsibilities: * Lead the analysis and tuning of the solution to improve the responsiveness of the system and reduce the operational costs. * Continue to evolve the performance and scalability pipeline to ensure we have an effective data-driven approach to identifying issues, reducing performance regression and improving scalability and performance across the system. * Provide mentoring and training across the 12 Development Teams in developing high performance solutions such that problems are prevented or resolved at source. Essential Experience/skills: * Considerable experience of solving performance issues on significant and high traffic web system. * Exceptional C#/Asp.net MVC/SQL Server experience. * Experience of performance profiling (e.g. using Ants) * Experience of developing in a service based architecture (Micro-services) and monolithic architecture. * Load Testing experience (ideally using Visual Studio Load Test suite) * Good architectural awareness. * Experience of Microsoft Azure (Not essential but beneficial) Personal Attributes: * Exceptional problem-solving skills * Great people skills, with the ability to mentor and train less experienced engineers. * Good business judgement - able to strike the right balance between pragmatic solutions and longer-term goals. * Passion for software engineering excellence * Excellent written and oral communication skills * Flexible attitude and approach Capita IT Resourcing is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy