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Technical Engineer Senior | Level III | APM / Performance Engineer
Posted: 03/16/2026
Employment Type:
Contract
Category: Information Technology
Job Number: 29096
Pay Rate: $45-$55/hr
Job Description
Title: Senior Technical Engineer
Location: Hartford, CT (Hybrid)
Job Type: Contract (12 Months)
Compensation: $45 - $55 p/h (W2 only, no C2C)
Industry: Insurance & Financial Services
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About the Role
We are partnering with a leading organization in the insurance and financial services sector to identify a highly skilled Senior Technical Engineer. This role is critical to ensuring peak performance and reliability of enterprise applications and infrastructure. You will work extensively with Application Performance Management (APM) technologies and collaborate across development, infrastructure, and operations teams to maintain the stability of mission-critical business systems.
Job Description
As a Senior Technical Engineer, you will serve as a key technical expert responsible for monitoring, diagnosing, and optimizing application and infrastructure performance across a large, distributed enterprise environment. Your work will directly support system availability, user experience, and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Benefits
Dahl Consulting is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees that will allow you to choose the best coverage to meet your family’s needs. For details, please review the DAHL Benefits Summary: https://www.dahlconsulting.com/benefits-w2fta/.
How to Apply
Take the first step on your new career path! To submit yourself for consideration for this role, simply click the apply button and complete our mobile-friendly online application. Once we’ve reviewed your application details, a recruiter will reach out to you with next steps!
Equal Opportunity Statement
As an equal opportunity employer, Dahl Consulting welcomes candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply. If this position sounds like the right opportunity for you, we encourage you to take the next step and connect with us. We look forward to meeting you!
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Location: Hartford, CT (Hybrid)
Job Type: Contract (12 Months)
Compensation: $45 - $55 p/h (W2 only, no C2C)
Industry: Insurance & Financial Services
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About the Role
We are partnering with a leading organization in the insurance and financial services sector to identify a highly skilled Senior Technical Engineer. This role is critical to ensuring peak performance and reliability of enterprise applications and infrastructure. You will work extensively with Application Performance Management (APM) technologies and collaborate across development, infrastructure, and operations teams to maintain the stability of mission-critical business systems.
Job Description
As a Senior Technical Engineer, you will serve as a key technical expert responsible for monitoring, diagnosing, and optimizing application and infrastructure performance across a large, distributed enterprise environment. Your work will directly support system availability, user experience, and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead performance triage efforts and troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems
- Support, maintain, and optimize the organization’s enterprise APM platform
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and business teams to identify and resolve performance challenges
- Participate in incident response related to performance issues in production environments
- Develop and maintain documentation, runbooks, and best practices for performance monitoring and triage
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in performance engineering or a similar technical role
- Strong hands-on experience with APM tools (Dynatrace preferred; AppDynamics, Datadog, or New Relic also applicable)
- Proven experience supporting large, complex enterprise environments
- Deep understanding of application performance triage and root cause analysis
- Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud environments
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities with meticulous attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Demonstrated success working across multiple teams and organizational units
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring tools and operational practices
- Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash
- Experience with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner, Neoload)
- Background in mainframe performance monitoring and optimization
- Exposure to network performance monitoring tools (e.g., Wireshark, ThousandEyes)
- Understanding of chaos engineering concepts and tools (e.g., Gremlin, Chaos Monkey)
Benefits
Dahl Consulting is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees that will allow you to choose the best coverage to meet your family’s needs. For details, please review the DAHL Benefits Summary: https://www.dahlconsulting.com/benefits-w2fta/.
How to Apply
Take the first step on your new career path! To submit yourself for consideration for this role, simply click the apply button and complete our mobile-friendly online application. Once we’ve reviewed your application details, a recruiter will reach out to you with next steps!
Equal Opportunity Statement
As an equal opportunity employer, Dahl Consulting welcomes candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply. If this position sounds like the right opportunity for you, we encourage you to take the next step and connect with us. We look forward to meeting you!
#ZR #IT.IndeedÂ
#LI-CF1
#LI-Hybrid
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