Technical / Functional Skills
- Analysis of current environment challenges and recommending solutions that may include configuration or WLM changes.
- Make performance tuning recommendations including memory and lpar weights.
- May prepare and submit hardware plans.
- Calculating expected utilization for new workloads.
- Creation of required reporting including MLC/VUE/MSU forecasts with your analysis clearly communicated.
- Advanced knowledge of IBM licensing models and costs
- Provide sizing requests for incoming and outgoing workloads as it pertains to capacity needs
- Collect and analyze capacity metrics and relate them to business metrics and performance measurements
- Proactive engagement of SMEs in business and technical organization to develop personal network and understanding of business and workloads.
- Participate in technical discussions with other technical SMEs (OS, CICS, DB2, Operations, Procurement, Software Asset Management).
- Participate in the compilation and presentation of regular capacity reviews with the business.
- Monitor current environment and recommend improvements to processes and configuration.
- This is a small team so you will be needed to support lower-level tasks when requested. Oncall and US hours are a requirement.
What Candiadte background looks like:
- 8+ years of experience in hardware configuration, OLTP, batch and database:
- z/OS architecture and associated system software
- z-Series hardware components and interfaces
- Storage systems and I/O configurations
- CICS/DB2/MQ/WAS configurations
- MLC and VUE forecasting
- Strong data modelling and forecasting.
- Strong working knowledge and experience with the following tools:
- Strong understanding of hardware configurations and technologies, as well as business driver impacts for capacity planning purposes.
- Excellent communication skills are necessary to support requests at all levels of management.
- Experience with z/OS Workload Manager and ancillary WLM functions (group defined capacity, soft-caps, WLM policy, service goals, resource groups, service classes).
- Experience with content and interpretation of SCRT reports (IBM sub-capacity reporting tool)
- Experience with mainframe system monitors (e.g., Mainview, CMF, EJES, or similar).
- Self-motivation and teamwork are needed daily.