Capacity Planning Systems Programmer - Mainframe
WorldPay
Cincinnati, United States of America
5 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
SeniorJob location
Remote
Cincinnati, United States of America
Tech stack
Mainframes
Systems Development Life Cycle
Software Engineering
Z/OS
Data Analytics
Job description
Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We're looking for a Capacity Planning Systems Programmer - Mainframe to join our eveR- evolving Mainframe Capacity team and help us unleash the potential of every business.
What you'll own as the Capacity Planning Systems Programmer
- Ensures issues including large tuning opportunities and capital needs for capacity increases are escalated appropriately to management. Provides daily support for data collection process. 24x7 on-call support of data collection process
- Performs work as a project team member for technical or operational projects.
- Ability to react quickly and appropriately to operational exceptions such as needed reports
- Performs troubleshooting, diagnoses and repair of report job issues
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization (e.g., executive, management, individual contributors)
- Meets commitments and provides excellent customer service at all times with internal and external clients. Provides detailed status reports (written and/or verbal) of tasks and difficulties encountered enabling managers to initiate escalation if necessary and assess areas where changes or additional support may be warranted.
Requirements
- 9 to 12 years of experience in Mainframe Capacity Planner
- IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS - Advanced analysis and visualization of SMF and RMF data.
- Identification of MSU, CPU, I/O, and storage capacity drivers.
- IBM SMF (System Management Facilities) - Primary source for workload, CPU/MSU, memory, I/O, and subsystem usage data.
- IBM CP3000 - CPU capacity planning and modeling for workload growth and hardware scenarios.
- Capacity on Demand (CoD) and active management of Rolling 4-Hour Average (R4HA) and MSU caps to control software licensing costs.
- Willing to work in daily support for data collection process and 24x7 on-call support for data collection process approximately once every 6 weeks
It's a bonus if you have
- Knowledge of end-to-end systems development life cycles, i.e.,waterfall, iterative and other modern approaches to software development
- Knowledge ofWorldpay' products and services
- Knowledge of the business goals, objectives and business operations for the appropriate Worldpay organization
About the company
What makes a Worldpayer? It's simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions and finding creative solutions to simplify the complex. We're dynamic, every Worldpayer is empowered to make the right decisions for their customers. And we're determined, always staying open and winning and failing as one.