Senior Mainframe Performance & Capacity Lead

Koitecc Solutions; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 55,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer to join our Enterprise Infrastructure organization. The role focuses on capacity planning, workload analysis, performance engineering, and infrastructure optimization across a large mainframe ecosystem.

You will monitor resource utilization, forecast growth, and drive MIPS reduction while partnering with multiple teams to ensure service levels.

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.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, database, and systems teams to identify high-resource consumers and implement optimization strategies.
• Deliver utilization reports, performance assessments, and capacity recommendations to support investments, upgrades, and peak-business readiness activities.
• Provide leadership for testing, QA reviews, production support, incident response, and on-call rotation for enterprise application performance.

Skills

Capacity planning

Performance engineering

Root cause analysis

Production troubleshooting

Excel reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

OMEGAMON

RMF III

SAS

MXG

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer to join our Enterprise Infrastructure organization. The role focuses on capacity planning, workload analysis, performance engineering, and infrastructure optimization across a large mainframe ecosystem.

You will monitor resource utilization, forecast growth, and drive MIPS reduction while partnering with multiple teams to ensure service levels.