Technology Architect – Mainframe Performance
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Job Summary
Role: Technology Architect Mainframe Performance & Capacity Management
Client: Infrastructure Technology Services
Location: Toronto Ontario Onsite
The candidate brings over 10 years of extensive experience supporting large-scale IBM Mainframe environments within enterprise and government organizations specializing in Mainframe Performance Capacity Management Infrastructure Modernization and Data Center Transformation initiatives.
Requirements
Key areas of expertise include:
- Over 10 years of hands-on experience providing operational oversight administration and support for Tier-4 enterprise Mainframe infrastructure environments.
- Extensive experience performing Mainframe Performance and Capacity Management activities including capacity planning workload forecasting resource utilization analysis and infrastructure optimization.
- Strong expertise working with IBM Mainframe performance tools including MICS RMF SMF and various ISV capacity management solutions for monitoring reporting and trend analysis.
- Demonstrated experience analyzing SMF data and generating detailed capacity reports to support infrastructure planning budgeting and performance tuning initiatives.
- Proven ability to conduct CPU capacity assessments hardware refresh evaluations and "what-if" workload impact modeling to support strategic infrastructure decisions.
- Extensive knowledge of IBM Mainframe CPU technologies including MIPS MSUs zIIP processors Capacity Backup (CBU) and Capacity on Demand (CoD) concepts.
- Experience performing complex workload impact calculations across multi-LPAR and multi-partitioned enterprise environments.
- Strong background reconciling Mainframe software vendor billing ISV workload charges software licensing consumption and capacity-based cost optimization initiatives.
- Proficient in SAS Programming for capacity reporting performance analytics trend forecasting and executive-level reporting.
- Demonstrated success identifying and implementing CPU cost-saving opportunities through workload balancing zIIP offloading software optimization and capacity management best practices.
- Experience supporting Mainframe hardware refresh projects infrastructure modernization initiatives software upgrades migration programs and disaster recovery implementations.
- Extensive involvement in Data Center transition activities hardware/software migrations and enterprise infrastructure transformation programs within mission-critical environments.
- Experience planning configuring supporting and implementing new Mainframe hardware platforms and associated software products.
- Strong knowledge of Disaster Recovery (DR) planning testing readiness validation recovery exercises and business continuity operations.
- Proven experience managing incidents problems change requests and operational support activities while maintaining strict Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Skilled in root cause analysis technical troubleshooting incident prevention and development of operational procedures and best practices.
- Experience utilizing IBM and third-party vendor support tools for incident management problem resolution and software maintenance activities.
- Strong collaboration skills working with infrastructure teams application development groups operations teams vendors and business stakeholders to deliver enterprise technology solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to produce comprehensive technical documentation capacity plans operational procedures migration strategies architecture artifacts and executive-level reports.
- Experience supporting large-scale government or public-sector environments with high availability security and operational compliance requirements.
- Strong communication presentation and stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business-focused recommendations.
Benefits
Must Have:
demonstrated a minimum of 7 years experience in Mainframe Performance/Capacity Management roles.
Experience with interactive capacity management tools including MICS RMF and other ISV tools.
Strong understanding and can demonstrate experience working with SMF data.
Performed capacity requirement assessments for CPU upgrades and refreshes including the ability to perform what-if impact models.
Past experience reconciling mainframe billing for ISV workloads.
Experience performing complex calculations to estimate workload impacts in terms of MIPS and/or MSUs across a multi-partitioned environment.
Understand zIIP utilization.
Experience with SAS Programming.
Ability to proactively identify CPU cost-savings opportunities.
A firm understanding of IBM Mainframe CPU concepts including CBUs and CoD and you can configure mainframe tools such as MICS RMF to build reports and view data from these tools.
The candidates background in Mainframe Capacity Management Infrastructure Modernization Data Center Refresh Programs Disaster Recovery Planning and Enterprise Operations Support makes them well aligned with the Government of Ontarios Technology Architect requirements.
Required Skills:
Mandatory Skills & Experience Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering Proven experience designing deploying and maintaining hybrid infrastructure environments across: Microsoft Azure Amazon Web Services (AWS) Linux-based environments SaaS solutions COTS solutions On-premises systems Strong experience with Windows and Linux server administration including: CentOS Ubuntu CoreOS Experience supporting modern web technology stacks including: LAMP MEAN Drupal Elasticsearch Experience with virtualization platforms storage solutions networking and enterprise infrastructure services. Strong understanding of cloud architecture frameworks technology assessments and cloud solution strategies. Identity & Access Management Experience managing and supporting identity and access controls using: Active Directory Microsoft Entra ID Enterprise IAM solutions Experience implementing authentication authorization and access governance controls. DevOps & CI/CD Automation Strong experience designing building and administering CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and deployment. Experience with development and collaboration tools including: Azure DevOps JIRA Confluence Maven Jenkins Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and version-controlled deployments. Strong knowledge of DevOps methodologies automation frameworks and release management best practices. Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies including: Docker Kubernetes AKS / EKS Experience automating operational and compliance-related activities using: PowerShell Bash Python Programming & Scripting Hands-on experience with scripting and programming languages including: Python Bash PHP Java JavaScript Experience with build and configuration management tools including: Git Ansible Chef Puppet API & Integration Experience Experience building and consuming APIs and integration endpoints. Experience integrating cloud platforms enterprise systems and deployment pipelines. Understanding of enterprise integration architectures and service-based deployments. Security Monitoring & Compliance Strong understanding of infrastructure security cloud security and DevOps security best practices including: Least privilege access Secure logging Secrets management Vulnerability remediation Experience with security and monitoring tools including: Radware Dynatrace Splunk Azure Monitor / Log Analytics AWS CloudTrail / CloudWatch ELK Stack / SIEM solutions Experience implementing centralized audit logging and monitoring across enterprise platforms. Ability to support internal and external audits through reporting evidence gathering and log analysis. Experience supporting forensic investigations audit remediation and incident reviews. Familiarity with Government of Ontario I&IT Directives Policies and Information Technology Standards. Release Management & Operational Support Experience coordinating infrastructure and application releases across technical and business teams. Knowledge of change management processes deployment approvals rollback planning and release governance. Experience with release readiness reviews deployment validation and post-release monitoring. Ability to maintain release documentation operational records and audit artifacts. Project Management & Communication Strong project planning coordination and resource management skills. Experience with roadmap planning modernization initiatives and infrastructure investment planning. Strong stakeholder communication and cross-functional collaboration skills. Ability to explain complex technical concepts to business users leadership teams and non-technical stakeholders. Strong documentation reporting presentation and technical writing skills. Mobile Device Management Experience supporting mobile device management for cellular devices and tablets across multiple platforms and operating systems. Desirable Skills Experience supporting Government of Ontario enterprise environments. Experience with enterprise modernization and cloud transformation initiatives. Familiarity with enterprise governance compliance frameworks and audit readiness programs. Experience mentoring and coaching junior DevOps and infrastructure resources. Strong understanding of operational resilience disaster recovery and enterprise monitoring strategies. Additional Information Strong hands-on DevOps cloud infrastructure automation CI/CD security and enterprise release management experience is mandatory for this role.
