Mainframe Capacity Planner

Role: Mainframe Capacity Planner Expert

Location :- Dallas, TX (Remote will be fine)

Full time

Summary of Primary Responsibilities:

• Analysis of current environment challenges and recommending solutions that may include configuration or WLM changes.
• Make performance tuning recommendations including memory and lpar weights.
• May prepare and submit hardware plans.
• Calculating expected utilization for new workloads.
• Creation of required reporting including MLC/VUE/MSU forecasts with your analysis clearly communicated.
• Advanced knowledge of IBM licensing models and costs
• Provide sizing requests for incoming and outgoing workloads as it pertains to capacity needs
• Collect and analyze capacity metrics and relate them to business metrics and performance measurements
• Proactive engagement of SMEs in business and technical organization to develop personal network and understanding of business and workloads.
• Participate in technical discussions with other technical SMEs (OS, CICS, DB2, Operations, Procurement, Software Asset Management).
• Participate in the compilation and presentation of regular capacity reviews with the business.
• Monitor current environment and recommend improvements to processes and configuration.
• This is a small team so you will be needed to support lower-level tasks when requested. Oncall and US hours are a requirement.

What Candiadte background looks like:

• 8 years of experience in hardware configuration, OLTP, batch and database:
  • z/OS architecture and associated system software
  • z-Series hardware components and interfaces
  • Storage systems and I/O configurations
  • CICS/DB2/MQ/WAS configurations
  • MLC and VUE forecasting
• Strong data modelling and forecasting.
• Strong working knowledge and experience with the following tools:
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• SAS / WPS
• MXG
• JCL
• Strong understanding of hardware configurations and technologies, as well as business driver impacts for capacity planning purposes.
• Excellent communication skills are necessary to support requests at all levels of management.
• Experience with z/OS Workload Manager and ancillary WLM functions (group defined capacity, soft-caps, WLM policy, service goals, resource groups, service classes).
• Experience with content and interpretation of SCRT reports (IBM sub-capacity reporting tool)
• Experience with mainframe system monitors (e.g., Mainview, CMF, EJES, or similar).
• Self-motivation and teamwork are needed daily.