Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer

Job Description

Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer

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Send your CV's to : Venkat@Ancileinc.org

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Location: Woodlawn, MD (5 days/week onsite). Candidates must be local to Maryland, DC, or Virginia

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Employment Type: W2 only

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Clearance: Must be able to obtain and maintain Public Trust

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Experience: Minimum 7 years

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Required Skills & Experience

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• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university

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• Minimum 7 years of experience in IBM zSystems mainframe performance engineering, capacity planning, capacity forecasting, and systems performance analysis

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• Analyzing, monitoring, and tuning z/OS and zLinux environments

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• Application load testing, workload analysis, performance benchmarking, and production readiness assessments

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• MIPS modeling, trend analysis, capacity forecasting, resource utilization reporting, and long-term capacity planning

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• Troubleshooting performance, throughput, response time, and workload management issues across enterprise mainframe environments

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• IBM technologies: CICS, DB2, WebSphere Application Server (Traditional and Liberty), IBM MQ, z/OS Connect, Sysplex, LPARs, Coupling Facilities (CF), multi-CEC environments, and data replication technologies

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• Real-time Sysplex, LPAR, and CEC performance monitoring, root cause analysis, and tuning

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• MIPS forecasting and capacity projections using IBM zPCR and z/OS AIOps toolsets

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• Automated SAS-based reporting and analytics for resource utilization, trending, forecasting, and performance analysis

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• Performance and capacity tools: RMF/SMF, zPCR, MICS, MXG, SAS, IntelliMagic Vision, BMC Strobe, Dynatrace, Splunk, Ironstream, and related z/OS AIOps solutions

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• JCL, IBM Utilities, SQL, Oracle/DB2 databases, and data analytics/reporting platforms

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• Working knowledge of C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, and object-oriented programming concepts for performance analysis, reporting, and automation

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• Disaster recovery, business resiliency, data replication, and hybrid cloud initiatives using AWS and/or Microsoft Azure

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• Technical documentation, SOPs, analytical reports, performance studies, and executive recommendations

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• Microsoft Office Suite: Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio, and Access

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• Strong written and verbal communication skills

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• Willingness to support after-hours troubleshooting and performance problem determination as required

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Desired Skills (Nice to Have)

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• Experience supporting SSA or other Federal agencies

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• Experience supporting large-scale mainframe modernization initiatives

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• Cloud integration and hybrid cloud architectures

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• SharePoint administration

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• Creating technical architecture, workflow, systems, and operational process diagrams in Visio

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Key Skills Summary

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Mainframe, Azure, CICS, Data Analysis, Java, Linux, MS Office 365