Mainframe Capacity & Performance Architect

CVS Health; Trenton (NJ); On-site; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer to join our Enterprise Infrastructure team. This role leads capacity planning, workload analysis, and performance optimization across the z/OS environment to ensure reliable, scalable healthcare, pharmacy, and retail applications.

You will partner across IT and business units, drive real-time diagnostics, support major events like Open Enrollment, and guide MIPS reduction initiatives while maintaining service levels and

Qualifications

• 5+ years supporting enterprise IBM mainframe environments, including z/OS and IBM Z architecture.
• 5+ years in capacity planning, performance engineering, root cause analysis, and production troubleshooting within large-scale environments.
• 3+ years analyzing utilization trends, forecasting capacity needs, and driving workload optimization initiatives.
• 3+ years leveraging enterprise mainframe monitoring and performance management tools to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
• 2+ years utilizing Microsoft Office applications, including advanced Excel reporting and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, analyze, and optimize mainframe resource utilization, performance, and capacity across IBM z/OS environments.
• Conduct capacity planning, forecasting, trend analysis, and real-time performance diagnostics.
• Identify high-resource consumers, troubleshoot issues, and implement optimization strategies to reduce MIPS consumption.
• Develop and deliver utilization reports, performance assessments, and capacity recommendations for infrastructure investments.
• Provide technical leadership for testing, QA, production support, incident response, and on-call rotation.

Skills

Mainframe capacity planning

Performance engineering

Root cause analysis

Production troubleshooting

Excel reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

OMEGAMON

RMF III

SAS

MXG

DB2

CICS

MQ

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer to join our Enterprise Infrastructure team. This role leads capacity planning, workload analysis, and performance optimization across the z/OS environment to ensure reliable, scalable healthcare, pharmacy, and retail applications.

You will partner across IT and business units, drive real-time diagnostics, support major events like Open Enrollment, and guide MIPS reduction initiatives while maintaining service levels and