Capacity Planning Supervisor jobs in West Orange, NJ

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 well as 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 in 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
  

Requirements

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

• Experience level: Mid-senior
  
• Experience required: 8 Years.
  
• Education level: Bachelor’s degree
  
• Job function: Information Technology
  
• Industry: Financial Services
  

 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. 
  

NICE TO HAVE

·         A solid foundation with Excel is a plus.

• Total position: 1
  
•  Relocation assistance: No
  

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!

Benefits

• 401 K
  
• Dental
  
• Company Benefits​