Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Lead

CVS Health

Boston (MA)

On-site

USD 114,932,000 - 306,483,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer to join our Enterprise Infrastructure organization. You will lead capacity planning, workload analysis, and performance engineering for the mainframe environment supporting healthcare, pharmacy, and retail applications.

This role requires strong analytical skills and collaboration across multiple teams. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of IBM mainframe experience, z/OS expertise, and a proven track record of improving

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 enterprise mainframe resource utilization, performance, and capacity across IBM z/OS environments.
Conduct capacity planning, forecasting, trend analysis, and real‑time performance diagnostics to identify bottlenecks and ensure scalability.
Partner with application, infrastructure, database, and systems programming teams to identify high-resource consumers and implement optimization strategies.
Develop and deliver utilization reports, performance assessments, and capacity recommendations to support infrastructure investments and peak‑business readiness activities.
Provide technical leadership for performance engineering activities including testing, QA reviews, production support, incident response, and on‑call rotation.