Mainframe Performance and Capacity Analyst

Mainframe Performance and Capacity Analyst

Baltimore, MD, On -site

Description of Work:

Visa Status: Independent Consultant's

• Strong knowledge of monitoring tools and in depth knowledge of Mainframe environment.
• Work with advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts.
• Challenge with working on complex technical problems and providing innovative solutions.
• All other duties as assigned or directed.

Basic Qualifications: Minimum knowledge, skills, abilities needed.

• Required Qualifications 8 or more years of technical experience with mainframe demand, capacity, and performance management
• 2 or more years of project leadership experience
• Experience integrating new technologies with existing technologies
• Experience implementing technologies with enterprise-wide impact
• Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences
• Masters degree (Preferred)
• Experience managing major projects from end to end
• Have a thorough understanding of performance requirements for mainframes
• Understand the relationship between CPU usage, MIPS and response timings, for both GP and zIIP metrics
• Run processes to capture performance metrics for specific applications'
• Analyze metrics, and deltas, for chronological tests for an individual application
• Research anomalies in delta metrics between successive series of an application's tests
• Have a working knowledge of WLM, and how that affects and impacts mainframe performance
• Have familiarity with running distributed applications on M/F LPAR's
• Have a basic understanding of M/F internals, and the implications for performance
• Understand what PI's are, and how they are reported from WLM metrics
• Familiar with WLM tuning practices, and impact to overall performance
• Comfortable in a very large shop, running dozens of Sys plexes and thousands of Report Classes
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a US Public Trust clearance.

Preferred Qualifications: Candidates with these skills will be given preferential consideration.

• Handles day to day requests
• Maintain operating system performance parameters
• Review and implement WLM (Workload manager) policy changes using IBM WLM ISPF facility (initiators, batch, started tasks, etc.). Determine WLM impact and implement required changes to the WLM policy for adding a new or existing system to the parallel sysplex.
• Customizing and testing of performance tools
• Performs mid-level troubleshooting
• Monitor critical system resources
• Real-time performance monitoring
• Supports operating system upgrades
• Run IBM SCRT process for billing
• Run CA SCRT process for billing
• Review workload delay data to determine root cause and effect on system throughput
• Maintain operating system performance parameters
• Performance maintains the Batch job classes / Initiator structures
• Business Continuity Planning and participation
• Provide On-call 7 x 24 rotation, weekend work, etc. Customer Service Skills Overall