Senior Mainframe Performance & Capacity Architect

CVS Health

Columbus (OH)

On-site

USD 55,000 - 146,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Paid time off

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Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer to join our Enterprise Infrastructure organization.

The Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer will serve as a critical technical leader responsible for ensuring the performance, scalability, reliability, and efficiency of our enterprise mainframe environment supporting mission-critical healthcare, pharmacy, and retail applications.

Qualifications

5+ years supporting enterprise IBM mainframe environments, including z/OS and IBM Z.
5+ years in capacity planning, performance engineering, root cause analysis, and production troubleshooting.
3+ years analyzing utilization trends, forecasting capacity needs, and driving workload optimization.
3+ years leveraging enterprise mainframe monitoring 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 resource utilization, performance, and capacity across IBM z/OS environments.
Conduct capacity planning, forecasting, trend analysis, and real‑time performance diagnostics to identify bottlenecks, mitigate risks, and ensure platform scalability and reliability.
Partner with application, infrastructure, database, and systems programming teams to identify high‑resource consumers, troubleshoot performance issues, and implement optimization strategies that improve efficiency and reduce MIPS consumption.
Develop and deliver utilization reports, performance assessments, and capacity recommendations to support infrastructure investments, application initiatives, technology upgrades, and peak‑business readiness activities such as Open Enrollment and Welcome Season.
Provide technical leadership for performance engineering activities including testing, quality assurance reviews, production support, critical incident response, and participation in an on‑call rotation supporting enterprise application performance.