Senior Mainframe Capacity Strategist

StradIT; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

StradIT seeks a Senior Mainframe Capacity Planning Engineer to monitor and analyze mainframe capacity, collecting and validating system data with SAS on z/OS and distributed environments. You will interpret descriptive statistics to forecast capacity and support business volumes across multiple sites.

Responsibilities include building reports, editing JCL in ISPF, maintaining documentation, and supporting MICS/MXG tasks. Strong analytical skills and mainframe data familiarity are required.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics or statistics preferred or equivalent work experience.
• SAS experience required.
• Understanding of mainframe technology and components.
• MICS/MXG experience essential.
• Familiarity with SMF/RMF data and mainframe capacity/performance metrics.
• MS Office skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Mainframe capacity planning and reporting.
• Run and validate data collection and reporting processes.
• Design basic SAS reports and dashboards.
• Edit and maintain JCL in ISPF.
• Create/update policies and job aids.
• Learn and diagnose MICS/MXG data architecture.
• Analyze business volumes and prepare risk assessments.
• Produce capacity planning documentation for audits.

Skills

Analytical skills

Descriptive statistics

Data exploration

Inferential statistics

Education

Bachelor's degree in mathematics or statistics

Tools

SAS

ISPF

SMF

RMF

CICS

DB2

MQ

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

StradIT seeks a Senior Mainframe Capacity Planning Engineer to monitor and analyze mainframe capacity, collecting and validating system data with SAS on z/OS and distributed environments. You will interpret descriptive statistics to forecast capacity and support business volumes across multiple sites.

Responsibilities include building reports, editing JCL in ISPF, maintaining documentation, and supporting MICS/MXG tasks. Strong analytical skills and mainframe data familiarity are required.