Mainframe Performance Specialist

Overview

On Site
Full Time

Skills

Life insurance
Systems engineering
Leadership
Data link layer
Production support
z/OS
Advanced analytics
IBM DB2
Performance testing
Physical layer
SAS
SAS/MACROS
SAS/GRAPH
Job Entry Subsystem 2/3
Financial services
Service delivery
Strategy
Mainframe
DTCC
IMPACT
FOCUS
Reporting
Metrics
CPU
Network
CICS
Storage
Design
Logical partition
Policies
Operations
Mentorship
BMC
MICS
MXG
Application service management
iOS development
Hierarchical storage management
IBM WebSphere MQ
IBM WebSphere
Teamwork
SAP BASIS
Finance
Trading
Data
Security clearance
EP

Job Details

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities?

Join our DTCC family, and you'll grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you'll be supported and surrounded by other professionals as you learn new skills, advance your career, and see the impact of your efforts every day.
Pay and Benefits:
  • Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
  • Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
  • Retirement benefits
  • Paid Time Off and other leave of absence
  • DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (Onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day of your choosing)
Why you'll love this job:
The Systems Engineering family is responsible for the entire technical effort to evolve and verify solutions that satisfy client needs. The primary focus is centered on reducing risk and improving the efficiency, performance, stability, security, and quality of all systems and platforms.

The Principal Platform Engineer is a member of the Mainframe Performance team. This is a highly technical position responsible for the overall performance of the Mainframe environment. Duties include the balancing resources across the Z system complex, reporting and analysis of performance metrics, system tuning, and responding to issues. This position requires proven leadership skills to coordinate and lead initiatives regarding mainframe performance and effectively coordinate with various IT groups and Product Mana
Your Primary Responsibilities:
  • Provide L2 diagnostics and production support of a large z/OS mainframe environment.
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in z/OS subsystems and applications.
  • Drive modernization and observability efforts, including new tools and products to enhance reporting, alerting, and advanced analytics.
  • Analyze and tune CPU, Memory, I/O, Network, and the Parallel Sysplex.
  • Support subsystem SME's including DB2, CICS, Network, and Storage.
  • Design and tune the LPAR configuration.
  • Configure and support performance testing environments; analyze results.
  • Improve mainframe cost effectiveness.
  • Ensure proper prioritization of critical path batch workloads.
  • Maintain ThruPut Manager policies.
  • Train operations staff on L1 performance diagnostics.
  • Provide consulting services to IT staff on performance issues.
  • Serve as a trusted coach and mentor within the team.
  • Communicate effectively across the organization
  • Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **
Talents Needed For Success:
  • Minimum of 8 years of related experience
  • Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
Additional Qualifications:
  • Expertise with BMC Mainview
  • Expertise in z/OS Workload Manager
  • Expertise in ThruPut Manager
  • Intermediate to strong SAS coding skills including SAS macros and SAS/GRAPH. Working knowledge of MICS and SAS/MXG
  • Working knowledge of z/OS internals - ASM, RSM, IOS, HSM, JES2, etc.
  • Working knowledge of performance aspects of DB2. MQ, CICS and WebSphere
  • Strong teamwork skills
Who We Are:
The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About Us

DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry's needs and we're working to continually improve the world's most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.

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About the Team

Enterprise Product & Platform Engineering transforms the way we deliver infrastructure to our business clients. A key construct of EP&PE will be the evolution of the IT Product Manager, who will partner with the Engineering organization, the Business Aligned Service Delivery organization, the DevSecOps organization as well as our operational support teams to ensure that this organization provides high quality, commercially attractive and timely solutions to support our business strategy.

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