Mainframe Performance & Capacity Management (PCM)

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Must have 6 plus years of experience in the following areas:
• Workload Manager (WLM) Administration and set up
• Thruput Manager (TM) Administration and set up
• Performance tuning of JAVA, CICS, DB2, IMS subsystems and z/OS operating system
• DASD Subsystem tuning
• Real-time monitoring by using BMCs Mainview or IBMs OMEGAMON
• SMF data processing by using MICS, MXG and SAS
• Able to extract data from TDS or IzPCA for performance analysis
• Strobe Execution and analysis
• Able to manage LPDEFs, Group Caps, Hard Caps, Soft Caps & Absolute Capping etc..
• Capacity trending analysis and Workload Analysis with historical SMF data and making recommendations
• Mainframe Infrastructure performance analysis with historical SMF data to identify exceptions and issues and making recommendations to resolve
• Setting up Infrastructure health checks for monitoring systems, identifying exceptions, and resolving them before they impact our customers
• Able to mentor the teams and be a technical lead
• Able to prepare presentations for senior management and present observations
• Excellent analytical and presentation skills

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Prefer

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Expertise in utilizing tools like SAS, MICS, IZPCA, TDS,RMF (Resource Measurement Facility), WLM (Workload Manager), and other performance monitoring utilities.
• Large enterprise organizations relying heavily on mainframe systems for mission-critical applications.
• Collaborative work with other system programmers, application developers, and system operators to address performance issues.
• On-call responsibilities for resolving critical performance issues outside of regular working hours.

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