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Sr Mainframe Capacity & Performance Engineer
Job in
Baltimore, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, 21276, USA
Listing for:
Data Bricks Inc
Full Time
position
Listed on 2026-11-08
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Monitor, analyze, and optimize performance across IBM zSystems mainframe environments.
- Conduct capacity planning, workload forecasting, resource utilization analysis, and long-range capacity projections.
- Perform MIPS forecasting using IBM zPCR and z/OS AIOps toolsets.
- Run application load tests and assess production readiness based on CPU, memory, throughput, and workload metrics.
- Conduct capacity and performance assessments for production and integration environments, including before-and-after test comparisons.
- Identify bottlenecks, performance risks, and resource constraints in application and infrastructure performance.
- Support performance engineering for CICS, DB2, z/OS Connect, Web Sphere Application Server (Traditional and Liberty), and IBM MQ.
- Perform real-time Sysplex, LPAR, and CEC monitoring, root cause analysis, and tuning.
- Build and maintain automated SAS-based reporting for resource utilization, trending, forecasting, and performance analysis.
- Produce performance reports, trend analyses, capacity forecasts, and executive recommendations.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, SOPs, diagrams, and knowledge repositories.
- Support business resiliency, disaster recovery, data replication, and hybrid cloud initiatives.
- Participate in modernization efforts, proofs of concept, emerging technology evaluations, Agile activities, and continuous improvement.
- Recommend system configuration changes to improve performance, availability, and scalability.
- Support after-hours troubleshooting and problem determination as required.
- Monitor, analyze, and optimize performance across IBM zSystems mainframe environments.
- Conduct capacity planning, workload forecasting, resource utilization analysis, and long-range capacity projections.
- Perform MIPS forecasting using IBM zPCR and z/OS AIOps toolsets.
- Run application load tests and assess production readiness based on CPU, memory, throughput, and workload metrics.
- Conduct capacity and performance assessments for production and integration environments, including before-and-after test comparisons.
- Identify bottlenecks, performance risks, and resource constraints in application and infrastructure performance.
- Support performance engineering for CICS, DB2, z/OS Connect, Web Sphere Application Server (Traditional and Liberty), and IBM MQ.
- Perform real-time Sysplex, LPAR, and CEC monitoring, root cause analysis, and tuning.
- Build and maintain automated SAS-based reporting for resource utilization, trending, forecasting, and performance analysis.
- Produce performance reports, trend analyses, capacity forecasts, and executive recommendations.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, SOPs, diagrams, and knowledge repositories.
- Support business resiliency, disaster recovery, data replication, and hybrid cloud initiatives.
- Participate in modernization efforts, proofs of concept, emerging technology evaluations, Agile activities, and continuous improvement.
- Recommend system configuration changes to improve performance, availability, and scalability.
- Support after-hours troubleshooting and problem determination as required.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years supporting IBM zSystems mainframe performance engineering, capacity planning, forecasting, and systems performance analysis.
- Analyzing, monitoring, and tuning z/OS and zLinux environments.
- Application load testing, workload analysis, performance benchmarking, and production readiness assessments.
- MIPS modeling, trend analysis, capacity forecasting, utilization reporting, and long-term capacity planning.
- Troubleshooting performance, throughput, response time, and workload management issues in enterprise mainframe environments.
- Supporting disaster recovery, business resiliency, data replication, and…
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