Strategic Mainframe Capacity & Performance Lead

CVS Health; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health seeks a Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer to join our Enterprise Infrastructure organization. You will monitor and optimize the mainframe environment supporting healthcare, pharmacy, and retail applications.

The role partners with multiple teams to analyze workload behavior, forecast capacity, and drive MIPS-reduction initiatives, ensuring service levels during high-volume events like Open Enrollment and Welcome Season.

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 programming teams to troubleshoot performance issues and implement optimization strategies.
• Deliver utilization reports, performance assessments, and capacity recommendations to support investments and upgrades.
• Provide technical leadership for performance engineering activities including testing, QA reviews, and incident response, with on-call rotation.

Skills

Mainframe expertise

Capacity planning

Performance engineering

Workload analysis

Excel reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

OMEGAMON

RMF III

SAS

MXG

DB2

CICS

Job description

CVS Health seeks a Senior Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer to join our Enterprise Infrastructure organization. You will monitor and optimize the mainframe environment supporting healthcare, pharmacy, and retail applications.

The role partners with multiple teams to analyze workload behavior, forecast capacity, and drive MIPS-reduction initiatives, ensuring service levels during high-volume events like Open Enrollment and Welcome Season.