Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer

Job Description

Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer

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Location: Woodlawn, MD (5 days/week onsite). Candidates must be local to Maryland, DC, or Virginia

Employment Type: W2 only

Clearance: Must be able to obtain and maintain Public Trust

Experience: Minimum 7 years

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
• Minimum 7 years of experience in IBM zSystems mainframe performance engineering, capacity planning, capacity forecasting, and systems performance analysis
• Analyzing, monitoring, and tuning z/OS and zLinux environments
• Application load testing, workload analysis, performance benchmarking, and production readiness assessments
• MIPS modeling, trend analysis, capacity forecasting, resource utilization reporting, and long-term capacity planning
• Troubleshooting performance, throughput, response time, and workload management issues across enterprise mainframe environments
• IBM technologies: CICS, DB2, WebSphere Application Server (Traditional and Liberty), IBM MQ, z/OS Connect, Sysplex, LPARs, Coupling Facilities (CF), multi-CEC environments, and data replication technologies
• Real-time Sysplex, LPAR, and CEC performance monitoring, root cause analysis, and tuning
• MIPS forecasting and capacity projections using IBM zPCR and z/OS AIOps toolsets
• Automated SAS-based reporting and analytics for resource utilization, trending, forecasting, and performance analysis
• Performance and capacity tools: RMF/SMF, zPCR, MICS, MXG, SAS, IntelliMagic Vision, BMC Strobe, Dynatrace, Splunk, Ironstream, and related z/OS AIOps solutions
• JCL, IBM Utilities, SQL, Oracle/DB2 databases, and data analytics/reporting platforms
• Working knowledge of C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, and object-oriented programming concepts for performance analysis, reporting, and automation
• Disaster recovery, business resiliency, data replication, and hybrid cloud initiatives using AWS and/or Microsoft Azure
• Technical documentation, SOPs, analytical reports, performance studies, and executive recommendations
• Microsoft Office Suite: Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio, and Access
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to support after-hours troubleshooting and performance problem determination as required

Desired Skills (Nice to Have)

• Experience supporting SSA or other Federal agencies
• Experience supporting large-scale mainframe modernization initiatives
• Cloud integration and hybrid cloud architectures
• SharePoint administration
• Creating technical architecture, workflow, systems, and operational process diagrams in Visio

Key Skills Summary

Mainframe, Azure, CICS, Data Analysis, Java, Linux, MS Office 365