What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mainframe Capacity Planning Engineer position at YDTS Global?
Principal Capacity
Planning Engineer for Mainframe
The Principal Capacity Planning Engineer
for Mainframe works directly with a team responsible for monitoring, analyzing,
and reporting mainframe processing capacity. The successful candidate will
collect system resource data along with business volume data for analysis using
sound data science principles. One needs to be knowledgeable of which types of
data are used in Capacity Planning and well as the sources and tools used to
collect, validate, and then process required data. One should be familiar with
Mainframe infrastructure components. A strong mathematics background in both
descriptive and inferential statistics is imperative to extrapolate insight
from large quantities of raw data using SAS software on the mainframe and in
distributed 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.
MICS
support 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 infrastructure
components, strong mathematics background, SAS software on the mainframe and in
distributed environments, Capacity Planning, Data Analysis
- Experience
level: Mid-senior
- Experience
required: 8 Years.
- Education
level: Bachelor’s degree
- Job
function: Information Technology
- Industry: Financial Services
MUST
HAVE
- Familiarity with Mainframe infrastructure
components.
- Familiarity with MICS support and
maintenance.
- The
ability to read and write SAS software on
the mainframe and in distributed environments.
NICE
TO HAVE
· A solid foundation with Excel is a plus.
- Total
position: 1
- Relocation
assistance: No
Candidates hired
for this role will be required to start onsite from Day 1 following hybrid work
option, 2 days in office. Candidates who are local to either Dallas,
Tampa, Boston, McClean, VA or Jersey City need to apply.
Due
to a recent increase in misrepresentation during the interview process, our
client has implemented a new policy that requires a candidate’s headshot on the
front page of the resume to be considered.
This
role is contract to hire!
Benefits
- 401 K
- Dental
- Company Benefits