**Introduction** Are You Ready to Optimize the Global Digital Infrastructure? Join the elite performance engineering team at one of the world's leading high-tech IT companies, where the speed and scalability of data define our success. We are searching for an exceptional Performance Analysis Engineer to be the driving force behind our next generation of data storage products. You won't just test; you will architect the future of efficiency, diving deep into complex infrastructure to analyze latency, throughput, and resource utilization at a petabyte scale. If you thrive on tearing apart bottlenecks and ensuring that our cutting-edge flash and cloud storage solutions deliver peak performance in mission-critical environments worldwide, step into this role and define the microsecond difference that powers global industry. **Your role and responsibilities** We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented individual to join the IBM FlashSystem Storage team as a Performance Analyst. In this role, you will be responsible for performance testing, benchmarking and analysis across the IBM FlashSystem product family and features—including various network protocols, data replication and new hardware. You’ll collaborate with development teams worldwide to ensure that IBM FlashSystem achieves its high performance benchmarks. If you're passionate about performance engineering and thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, we’d love to hear from you. **Required technical and professional expertise** * 5+ years of performance test and analysis experience including * Leadership of teams and projects with global stakeholders * Using storage performance benchmarking tools like vdbench, IO Meter etc * Analysis of performance data to identify trends and assist issue resolution * Defining pass criteria for the performance of hardware and software features, and defining test coverage to ensure that the pass criteria are met * Proven Block Storage domain knowledge, with good understanding of features like High Availability, data reduction technologies and storage multi-pathing solutions * Experience of working with multiple network protocols including Fibre-channel and Ethernet **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Ability to crisply communicate with stake holders (written/verbal) IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.