Job Description

What does a great Systems Engineering, Professional do?

The z/OS Sysplex Performance Tuning/Capacity Planning Professional is responsible for ensuring adequate resources are available for mission critical workloads. The z/OS Sysplex Performance Tuning/Capacity Planning Specialist monitors utilization of resources and predicts future resources requirements. In addition, the z/OS Sysplex Performance Tuning/Capacity Planning Specialist resolves performance issues associated with mission critical workloads.
As a Systems Engineering, Professional you can look forward to:
Estimating and recommending the resource needs to support planned software/hardware upgrades.
Verifying the correct operation of z/OS operating system and subsystems.
Validating correct performance of features supporting the Data Center's Parallel Sysplex.
Analyzing the Sysplex configuration for proper performance by studying appropriate RMF reports.
Identifying the workload delayed, and the reason for the delay.
Identifying performance problems, evaluating appropriate cost-effective changes, predicting the effect of those changes, and then implementing them.
Defining and adjusting WLM performance goals of workloads based on business needs.
Analyzing I/O configuration and subsystems considering the performance implication of the interactions of the components.
Defining and implementing WLM service definitions based on SLA and following Change Control process.
Customizing RMF facilities to monitor workload performance and resource utilization.
Analyzing WLM and adjusting WLM service policy following Change Control process to ensure server level agreements are reached.
Using RMF III Interactive Performance Analysis to isolate and fix system degradation problems.
Analyzing CICS, WebSphere, IIB, MQ, and other online subsystems transactions to ensure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met.

Basic Qualifications for Consideration:

* High school diploma/GED
* Strong computer skills. Must have good oral and written communication skills.
* 3+ equivalent work experience or related and/or military experience.
* Working knowledge of JCL, SAS/WPS and REXX or Python highly desirable
* Working knowledge of z/OS, WLM, RMF, RMF Monitor III, and RMF Post Processor
* Candidate must have working knowledge of z/OS and systems such as DB2, CICS, MQ, and CFm

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