Mainframe Capacity & Performance Lead

MainframeMaster; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

MainframeMaster in Jersey City is seeking a Senior Mainframe Capacity Analyst to oversee daily processing and reporting across multiple MICS units, LPARs, and work types.

You will apply MICS maintenance, analyze SMF/RMF data, CICS/DB2/MQ components, and produce monthly capacity reports and ad-hoc analyses for governance forums.

The role requires a decade of related experience, a math/statistics background, and strong analytical skills with SAS/MICS experience.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree in a mathematics / statistics discipline preferred or equivalent work experience
• Experience with mainframe capacity / performance data analysis

Responsibilities

• Ensure the successful daily processing / reporting of 30 different MICS units split by LPAR and work type
• Apply MICS maintenance to support new processors, z/OS operating systems and general updates
• Ad-hoc reporting inquiries such as frequency of a specific function, transaction, or job
• Monthly Mainframe Capacity Reports including measurement of system resources usage for all LPARs
• Usage Trends, Top-N lists, Peak Profiles, Threshold Exception, etc
• Prepare and Present Monthly Mainframe Capacity Planning Review meeting documents
• Annual Mainframe Capacity Report
• Resource usage by Application System ID
• Ad-hoc analyses as requested
• Collection and reporting of business volume data from varied sources
• Resource Forecasting and monthly review of forecasts to actuals
• Risk assessments of extreme market conditions for selected business streams
• Produce/update a Business Process Requirements document for selected business streams
• Correlation Analysis, Business volume to System Resources
• Pattern Recognition / Detection of outliers
• Linear / Logistic Regression, ARIMA forecasts, integrating projections with forecast data
• Ad hoc report development for senior business and management forums
• Quarterly report creation for the IT Governance Committee
• Produce documentation, test results as requested by the Model Validation Committee
• Policy procedure documentation with supporting evidence for regulatory, audit bodies
• Ensure the successful daily processing of multiple processing streams split by LPAR and work type
• Determine CPU and Storage usage by application system ID
• Monthly delivery of daily data to for chargeback processing and reporting
• Ad-hoc inquiries regarding systems suspected of high CPU or storage consumption, to control costs

Skills

Mainframe capacity analysis

Analytical skills

MICS/MXG/SAS ITRM experience

SAS experience

HTML/JSON experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in mathematics or statistics

Tools

JCL

SMF

RMF

CICS

DB2

MQ

Job description

MainframeMaster in Jersey City is seeking a Senior Mainframe Capacity Analyst to oversee daily processing and reporting across multiple MICS units, LPARs, and work types.

You will apply MICS maintenance, analyze SMF/RMF data, CICS/DB2/MQ components, and produce monthly capacity reports and ad-hoc analyses for governance forums.

The role requires a decade of related experience, a math/statistics background, and strong analytical skills with SAS/MICS experience.