Senior Mainframe Performance & Capacity Lead

Koitecc Solutions; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 55,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement savings options

Job summary

CVS Health in Providence, RI seeks a Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer to lead capacity planning, workload analysis, and performance optimization across the z/OS environment. You will collaborate with Development, Infrastructure, DBAs and Operations to ensure scalable, reliable healthcare, pharmacy, and retail applications.

This role requires real-time diagnostics, on‑call support, and guidance on MIPS reduction and modernization.

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

• Serve as the primary Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing 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, 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.

Skills

Mainframe capacity planning

Performance engineering

Capacity forecasting

Workload analysis

Excel reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

z/OS tools

OMEGAMON

RMF

SAS

MXG

CICS

DB2

Job description

CVS Health in Providence, RI seeks a Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer to lead capacity planning, workload analysis, and performance optimization across the z/OS environment. You will collaborate with Development, Infrastructure, DBAs and Operations to ensure scalable, reliable healthcare, pharmacy, and retail applications.

This role requires real-time diagnostics, on‑call support, and guidance on MIPS reduction and modernization.