Mainframe Capacity Planning Engineer

Arlington, United States | Posted on 09/22/2023

YD Talent Solutions (YDTS), founded in 2005, is a boutique firm delivering innovative talent acquisition and staffing solutions through advanced software platforms, specializing in Global Capability Centre deployment, onshore, nearshore, and offshore talent solutions.

YDTS provides strategic recruitment, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), staff augmentation, and talent lifecycle management while maintaining rigorous standards of quality and reliability recognized by partners worldwide.

By challenging conventional hiring models, YDTS empowers organizations to navigate complex talent acquisition challenges confidently with agile, high-impact workforce strategies tailored to modern global business demands.

Principal Capacity Planning Engineer for Mainframe

The Principal Capacity Planning Engineer for Mainframe works directly with a team responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and reporting mainframe processing capacity. The successful candidate will collect system resource data along with business volume data for analysis using sound data science principles. One needs to be knowledgeable of which types of data are used in Capacity Planning and the sources and tools used to collect, validate, and then process required data.

One should be familiar with Mainframe infrastructure components. A strong mathematics background in both descriptive and inferential statistics is imperative to extrapolate insight from large quantities of raw data using SAS software on the mainframe and distributed environments. A solid foundation with Excel is a plus.

Monthly Mainframe Capacity Reports including.

• Measurement of system resources usage for all LPARs
• Usage Trends, Top-N lists, Peak Profiles, Threshold Exception, etc.
• Data analysis - Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
• Correlation Analysis, Business volume to System Resources
• Pattern Recognition / Detection of outliers
• Linear / Logistic Regression, ARIMA forecasts, integrating projections with forecast data.

MICS support and maintenance

• Ensure the successful daily processing / reporting of 30 different MICS units split by LPAR and work type (Examples: SMF/RMF component, CICS, DB2, MQ, mainframe web logs)
• Apply MICS maintenance to support new processors, z/OS operating systems and general updates.
• Ad-hoc reporting inquiries such as frequency of a specific function, transaction, or job

Skills: Mainframe infrastructure components, strong mathematics background, SAS software on the mainframe and distributed environments, Capacity Planning, Data Analysis

• Experience level:
  Mid-senior
• Job function:
  Information Technology

MUST HAVE

• Familiarity with Mainframe infrastructure components.
• Familiarity with MICS support and maintenance.
• The ability to read and write SAS software on the mainframe and in distributed environments.

NICETO HAVE

A solid foundation with Excel is a plus.

• Total position: 1

Candidates hired for this role will be required to start onsite from Day 1 following hybrid work option, 2 days in office. Candidates who are local to either Dallas, Tampa, Boston, McClean, VA or Jersey City need to apply.

Due to a recent increase in misrepresentation during the interview process, our client has implemented a new policy that requires a candidate’s headshot on the front page of the resume to be considered.

This role is contract to hire!

• 401 K
• Company Benefits

YD Talent Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran disability or genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law in employment.