Capacity Planning Engineer

Company: Pyramid Consulting, Inc
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: January 21, 2023

Job Description:

Immediate need for a talented -Capacity Planning Engineer. This is a 06+ Months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is in Jersry City, NJ/Dallas, TX/ Tampa, FL (Hybrid). Please review the job description below. -

The Principal Capacity Planning Engineer for Mainframe works directly with a team responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and reporting mainframe processing capacity at ***. 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, 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
o Measurement of system resources usage for all LPARs
o 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

Our client is a leading Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration. -

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