Principal CapacityPlanning Engineer for Mainframe

The Principal Capacity Planning Engineerfor Mainframe works directly with a team responsible for monitoring, analyzing,and reporting mainframe processing capacity. The successful candidate willcollect system resource data along with business volume data for analysis usingsound data science principles. One needs to be knowledgeable of which types ofdata are used in Capacity Planning and well as the sources and tools used tocollect, validate, and then process required data. One should be familiar withMainframe infrastructure components. A strong mathematics background in bothdescriptive and inferential statistics is imperative to extrapolate insightfrom large quantities of raw data using SAS software on the mainframe and indistributed environments. A solid foundation with Excel is a plus.
Monthly Mainframe Capacity Reports including.

• Measurement of system resources usage for all LPARs
• Usage Trends, Top-N lists, Peak Profiles, Threshold Exception, etc.
• Data analysis - Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
• Correlation Analysis, Business volume to System Resources
• Pattern Recognition / Detection of outliers
• Linear / Logistic Regression, ARIMA forecasts, integrating projections with forecast data.

MICSsupport and maintenance

• Ensure the successful daily processing / reporting of 30 different MICS units split by LPAR and work type (Examples: SMF/RMF component, CICS, DB2, MQ, mainframe web logs)
• Apply MICS maintenance to support new processors, z/OS operating systems and general updates.
• Ad-hoc reporting inquiries such as frequency of a specific function, transaction, or job

Requirements

Skills: Mainframe infrastructurecomponents, strong mathematics background, SAS software on the mainframe and indistributed environments, Capacity Planning, Data Analysis

• Experiencelevel: Mid-senior
• Experiencerequired: 8 Years.
• Educationlevel: Bachelor’s degree
• Jobfunction: Information Technology
• Industry: Financial Services

MUSTHAVE

• Familiarity with Mainframe infrastructurecomponents. 
• Familiarity with MICS support andmaintenance.
• Theability to read and write SAS software onthe mainframe and in distributed environments. 

NICETO HAVE

·A solid foundation with Excel is a plus.

• Totalposition: 1
• Relocationassistance: No

Candidates hiredfor this role will be required to start onsite from Day 1 following hybrid workoption, 2 days in office. Candidates who are local to either Dallas,Tampa, Boston, McClean, VA or Jersey City need to apply.

Dueto a recent increase in misrepresentation during the interview process, ourclient has implemented a new policy that requires a candidate’s headshot on thefront page of the resume to be considered.

Thisrole is contract to hire!

Benefits

• 401 K
• Dental
• Company Benefits​