MAINFRAME CAPACITY PLANNING ENGINEER position at The Judge Group in Irving

The Judge Group is currently interviewing MAINFRAME CAPACITY PLANNING ENGINEER on Fri, 03 May 2013 02:48:07 GMT. Capacity Planning Engineer Department Function Area/Team Function: Capacity and Performance Management team is responsible for: · Improving the timeliness, stability and cost effectiveness of IT service delivery · Forecasting the impact of changing business environment on IT service delivery. Planning the applications and infrastructure environments to assure an uninterrupted delivery of timely...

MAINFRAME CAPACITY PLANNING ENGINEER

Location: Irving, Texas

Description: The Judge Group is currently interviewing MAINFRAME CAPACITY PLANNING ENGINEER right now, this position will be presented in Texas. More details about this position opportunity kindly read the description below. Capacity Planning Engineer

Department Function

Area/Team Function: Capacity and Performance Management team is responsible for:

• Improving ! the timeliness, stability and cost effectiveness of IT service delivery
• Forecasting the impact of changing business environment on IT service delivery. Planning the applications and infrastructure environments to assure an uninterrupted delivery of timely and cost effective services to firm’s businesses.

Position Summary

Capacity / Performance Engineer is responsible for mainframe Performance Management and Optimization
Principal Responsibilities

• z/OS real time performance diagnostics and L2 production support in a large mainframe environment
• Identification of performance bottlenecks and their alleviation through z/OS components and application tuning
• Proactive, exceptions driven component performance management & optimization

o CPU, Memory, I/O, Network, CF, etc.
o Synergy with other performance SME - DB, CICS, Network, Storage, etc

• Sysplex WLM policy design, analysis and mai! ntenance
• LPAR, Hiperdispatch/IRD configurations desig! n and tuning
• Performance tests configuration, analysis and support
• Improving mainframe cost effectiveness through a focused peak resource demand reduction effort
• Batch workloads critical path prioritization
• Performance software products configuration and tuning
• Performance reporting structure design
• Operations staff training in L1 performance diagnostics

Experience

10+ year experience in the equivalent role in a large z/OS mainframe environment (5,000 MIPS+)
Knowledge/Skills

• Expertise in z/OS performance diagnostics, problem resolution and proactive performance management
• Expertise in z/OS Workload Manager Policy design in a large Sysplex environment
• Working knowledge of z/OS components â€" WLM, ASM, RSM, IOS, Master Scheduler, HSM, JES2, SNA, TCP/IP, etc.
• Understanding of the functionality and performance aspects of z/OS secondary subsystems â€" DB2, C! ICS, MQ
• Ability to tune the above components to maximize the productive utilization of computer resources and improve cost effectiveness
• Strong teamwork skills
• Intermediate to strong SAS coding skills including SAS macros and SAS/GRAPH. Working knowledge of MICS and SAS/MXG
• Ability to create and lead virtual teams of performance SME’s

Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Education, Training or Certification

• BS/MS in Computer Science / Information System Management /Mathematics / Engineering, etc.

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This position will be opened on: Fri, 03 May 2013 02:48:07 GMT

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