SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Senior Performance Testing Engineer Market Research - Request for Information
- Notice Date
- 7/29/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, WO-AQM IT Support, Albuquerque Service Center, Pan American Bldg, Suite 200, 101 B Sun Ave NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87109, United States
- ZIP Code
- 87109
- Solicitation Number
- AG-7604-M-15-0001
- Archive Date
- 8/22/2015
- Point of Contact
- Madeline E. Livermore, Phone: 505-563-7302
- E-Mail Address
-
mlivermore@fs.fed.us
(mlivermore@fs.fed.us)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Request for Information (AG-7604-M-15-0001) This is a REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. This RFI is for information purposes only and shall not be construed as a commitment or a promise of a contract award by the Government. This is not a solicitation. This notice does not constitute a Request for Bid, Request for Quote, or Request for Proposal, nor does it restrict the Government as to the final acquisition approach. The Government is not requesting or considering your responses as bids or proposals for any solicitation. This is strictly for market research purposes. Number AG-7604-M-15-0001 PURPOSE: The Government is interest in obtaining information on staffing a contracted, Senior Performance Testing Engineer, to support the U.S. Forest Service (FS) Chief Information Office (CIO), and the Data Center Transformation (DCT), located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is requested that interested vendors present information for a contracted, Senior Performance Testing Engineer that is willing to work full time in the Albuquerque Data Center Transformation (DCT) Office. Aside from the requirement of being located in Albuquerque, New Mexico this contracted, Senior Performance Testing Engineer must meet the following job requirements: • 5+ years experience with Riverbed APM tools for detailed performance analysis: Transaction Analyzer, AppResponse, AppInternals, Transaction Trace Warehouse, and WebAnalyzer • 5+ years experience and familiarity with Riverbed Product APIs, including ability to construct custom Data Adapters in AppInternals, Custom Search Analysis Operators in Transaction Trace Warehouse, and custom reports • 5+ years experience and proficiency with Performance Testing tools (as detailed under Item 2), and ability to record, edit, and parameterize performance testing scripts • 5+ years scripting experience in various environments, including bash and python for customized analysis capabilities • 5+ years experience with knowledge and ability to create dashboards and integrate directly with Riverbed metrics sources (NetCollector, ARX, Profiler) • Knowledge of current monitoring and performance testing tools specifically used by the FS; • Performance Testing of applications that may require custom scripting; • Analysis of complex application performance data from multiple sources; • Ability to translate and present highly complex application performance data in reports that are provided to application owners; • Providing assistance to Problem and Incident Management to ensure timely resolution of application faults; • Advanced troubleshooting of FS applications in production and test environments using Riverbed AppInternals Xpert, and other Riverbed tools; • Administer Riverbed tools to ensure that they comply with all FS and government security standards; • Provide knowledge transfer and in depth training to FS personnel of Riverbed tools, and strategies regarding best practices of implementation; • Provide Knowledge transfer and training of performance and load testing best practices, and implementations; • Provide troubleshooting of Riverbed tools, and report all faults, issues, and errors to Riverbed Technology Inc. to ensure all reported issues are resolved in the most appropriate manner; • Develop advanced monitoring metrics using Riverbed tools for FS Enterprise Operations monitoring program. • Investigate reports of poor or diminished application performance and provide analysis of issues • Create custom dashboards to demonstrate impact of application issues • Replicate performance issues in Pre-Production environment through load testing to determine plan of actions for remediation This request is strictly for Market Research purposes, this is NOT a solicitation. This Request for Information to simply obtain information in the market for a contracted, Senior Performance Testing Engineer that meets the aforementioned requirements. Responses to this Request for Information should be emailed to Madeline E. Livermore at mlivermore@fs.fed.us, no later than 07 August 2015 at 12:00 noon.
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