Mainframe Performance Specialist

Mainframe Performance Specialist

The Mainframe Performance specialist is responsible for overall performance of the Mainframe environment. The Specialist is part of

Mainframe Capacity and Performance Management team

and primarily focus on Mainframe Systems and

Applications performance tuning and management.

Responsibilities -

Analyse Mainframe Applications performance for both batch and online and recommend Application tuning opportunities

Provide recommendations to Application Development organizations for applications tuning

Help and guide Development organizations to implement tuning recommendations

Follow-up proactively with development organizations to track progress on tuning recommendations

Continuous exploration for optimization opportunities in Mainframe Systems and Online / Batch applications by gained experience and knowledge

Create & present performance reports / metrics with recommendations for best-in-class efficiency solutions

Report status to Management / stakeholders on overall tuning initiatives

Required Skillset -

10+ years of strong experience in Mainframe performance specially

Application performance tuning and optimization

Strong knowledge and expertise with programming and performance tuning of

Online

and

Batch applications comprising DB2, CICS, PL / 1, COBOL, MQ, JCL, SYNCSORT, Utilities, Datasets and Storage

Excellent working experience with performance management tools and products (like DB2 Explain, RMFMON 3, Strobe,

APA ,

CICS Performance Analyzer

and

the Omegamon products )

Strong knowledge of SMF record types and sub-types

Ability to drive proactive performance management

Have experience in reporting, presentations, Excel and other reporting tools

Prior experience as Mainframe System programmer and or capacity planning is also a plus

Advantage -

Experience with ELK Stack

Prior experience as Mainframe System programmer and or capacity planning

Prior experience with Mainframe Modernization and Migration is a plus

Other desired traits -

Technical agility

Team player, Self-starter

Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills

Other Information :

Preferred Location- Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune