Mainframe Capacity/Performance Manager/Engineer

BE  ‐ Onsite
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Description

The Capacity Management Team ensures that the capacity of the IT infrastructure (current and future) matches the evolving demands of the Organization in the most cost effective and timely manner. The Capacity Management process is covering the following areas: capacity planning, demand management, capacity operations, capacity and performance engineering, capacity management infrastructure.

Role:

Responsible for the capacity/performance analysis and capacity planning. Perform detailed analysis of IT services, components or platforms. Define performance metrics and benchmarks, analyze deviations, define thresholds alerting and design workload specifications. Support performance testing and validate performance test strategy, scenario and scripts. Review capacity and performance reports. Analyze reported performance issues and propose mitigating actions. Provide recommendations to go forward. Design and develop Capacity Management Infrastructure components for the gathering, computing and reporting of indicators and trends. Assist the Capacity Management Infrastructure owner to support, maintain and develop the infrastructure. Participate to IT services technical design to determine the most-appropriate scalable model, taking into consideration performance, availability, disaster recovery and costs. Participate to technical discussions to incorporate performance features at design, development and test stages. Develop capacity models. Gather business, services and platforms data as well as forecasts, and incorporates them into capacity models. Help to establish realistic IT budgets for the IT infrastructure, and develop cost-benefit analysis and cost estimates. Develop (part of) the performance and capacity reports (eg capacity planning).

Skills:

You have a deep expertise in Mainframe zSeries system (LPARs, workload manager, Sysplex, Coupling Facility,),sub-system and Middleware (MQ, DB2, CICS) both from technical and application viewpoints. You are very knowledgeable in Mainframe application design and coding (PLI and Cobol). You have several years experience in Mainframe application and technical performance engineering, analysis and capacity planning. Experience or good knowledge of other platforms (Unix, Linux, VMWare, Windows) especially HP NSK (Tandem) is a bonus. You have a very good knowledge of the ITIL principles especially regarding Service Design process and sub-processes. You are a team-player, prepared to assist and educate other members of the team. You are familiar with the capacity management process. You are familiar with IBM Mainframe monitoring tools. You have experience in SAS programming, CA MICS, Tape and Storage systems, HP NSK (Tandem) systems. You have working experience in the Banking industry.

Language required: English.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months + extension
(extension possible)
From
Base 3 Systems S.A.
Published at
19.07.2012
Project ID:
394835
Contract type
Freelance
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