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Mainframe Capacity Planning Engineer - US

Boston, MA · On-site

$53.25 - $68.50/hr

Mainframe Capacity Planning Engineer Experience: 5 to 10 Years Employment: W2 (GC and USC only) Locations: Jersey City NJ, Tampa FL, Dallas TX & Boston MA Position Summary The Senior Capacity ...

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Mainframe Capacity Planning Engineer - US

Tampa, FL · On-site

$46.25 - $59.50/hr

Mainframe Capacity Planning Engineer Experience: 5 to 10 Years Employment: W2 (GC and USC only) Locations: Jersey City NJ, Tampa FL, Dallas TX & Boston MA Position Summary The Senior Capacity ...

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Mainframe Capacity Planning Engineer - US

Dallas, TX · On-site

$48.50 - $62.25/hr

Mainframe Capacity Planning Engineer Experience: 5 to 10 Years Employment: W2 (GC and USC only) Locations: Jersey City NJ, Tampa FL, Dallas TX & Boston MA Position Summary The Senior Capacity ...

Jobtailor

NY · On-site

$125 - $150/hr

Capacity Planning * Data Analysis Soft Skills * Excellent Analytical Skills * Strong Ethical Behavior Industry Keywords * Mainframe Processing Capacity * Business Volume Data * Data Exploration

Koitecc Solutions

$150 - $200/hr

As a Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer, you will play a key role in capacity planning, workload analysis, performance engineering, and infrastructure optimization across one of the ...

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Mainframe Capacity Planners routinely monitor system performance metrics, analyze workload trends, and forecast future resource requirements to ensure optimal mainframe operation. They work closely with infrastructure teams to recommend hardware or software adjustments and plan for upgrades or expansions. Collaborative meetings with application and IT support teams are common in order to discuss capacity impacts of new projects or business initiatives. Additionally, Mainframe Capacity Planners often create detailed reports and present findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive informed decision-making.

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Mainframe Capacity Planning Engineer - US

Boston, MA • On-site

StradIT
IT Services • 11 - 50 employees
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$53.25 - $68.50/hr

Full-time

Posted 15 days ago

Job description

Role: Mainframe Capacity Planning Engineer

Experience: 5 to 10 Years

Employment: W2 (GC and USC only)

Locations: Jersey City NJ, Tampa FL, Dallas TX & Boston MA

Position Summary


The Senior Capacity Planning Engineer for Mainframe works directly with a team responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and reporting mainframe processing capacity at DTCC. The successful candidate will collect, process and validate system resource data along with business volume data for future analysis using sound data science principles. One should have a basic understanding of Mainframe while knowledgeable of sources and tools used to collect, validate, then process required system data. One should have a solid background in descriptive statistics to extrapolate insight from large quantities of raw data using SAS software on the mainframe and in distributed environments.

Specific Responsibilities

Mainframe capacity planning

  • Run and validate the Data Collection and Reporting process using scheduling software.
  • Design basic reports using SAS
  • Build and Edit JCL in ISPF
  • Creating / Updating policies, job aids and other documentation

MICS/MXG support and maintenance

  • Learn MICS/MXG Database Architecture
  • Diagnose MICS related errors.
  • Able to execute and validate MICS administrative tasks to maintain proper maintenance.

Data analysis - Descriptive Statistics

  • Basic methods to Summarize Data
  • Display data in an organized manner.
  • Able to identify, describe patterns and relationships.

Business volumes and other reporting

  • Collection and reporting of business volume data from varied sources.
  • Risk assessments of extreme market conditions for selected business streams
  • Produce/update a Business Process Requirements document for selected business streams.

Management / Regulatory / Audit

  • Organize and store Capacity Planning artifacts in their proper location for future retrieval.
  • Ad hoc report development for senior business and management forums

 Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 5 years of related experience
  • Bachelor's degree in a mathematics / statistics discipline preferred or equivalent work experience

Specific Skills & Technologies

  • SAS experience required.
  • Understanding of mainframe technology and components
  • MICS/MXG experience essential.
  • Familiarity with mainframe capacity / performance data (SMF, RMF, CICS, DB2, MQ)
  • MS Office skills, in particular intermediate PowerPoint, and Excel skills
  • Excellent analytical skills including data exploration, analysis, and production of models.
  • Solid background with Descriptive Statistics
  • Inferential Statistics are a plus.

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