z Performance Analyst

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
The IBM Z Software Performance team is responsible for designing executing and analyzing stress workloads/benchmarks on the IBM Z and LinuxONE systems to ensure these systems meet customer expectations.
As a Software Performance Analyst/Tester you will design and create benchmarks and stress workloads execute performance measurements with those benchmarks and workloads analyze the performance measurements and guide Hardware Operating System and Software Development teams on performance improvements collaborating with a global IBM team

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement benchmarks and stress workloads for z/OS and keep them current
• Setup benchmarks and stress workloads and the underlying z/OS / IBM Z configuration
• Automate performance measurements and data collection for benchmarks and stress workloads
• Develop and enhance data collection and analysis tools
• Execute performance benchmarks and stress workload
• Analyze the performance measurements and collected data for performance issues and bottlenecks
• Guide Development teams across the stack (IBM Z Hardware z/OS Operating System Middleware/Applications) on the fixing of performance issues

USP : IBM Mainframes Operating System zOS performance analysis. This is complex system running workloads with Zero Down Time and Fully Secured Operating System.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
As Individual Developer

• 8-12 years of experience as a Software Developer/Tester or Performance Analyst/Tester.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology computer science or computer engineering.
• zOS platform/Admin skills like DB2 administration COBOL language JCL scripting.
• Functional or performance testing experience of multi-tiered applications
• Experience with programming languages like C/C++ Golang Java Python
• Good understanding of Operating System and Computer Architecture concepts
• Basic experience with performance analysis of applications/systems and performance tools
• Experience with the application of agile concepts
• Good Communication and presentation skills

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Master’s degree in information technology computer science computer engineering
• Knowledge of IBM Z Systems physical architecture
• z/OS functional or performance testing knowledge
• Basic understanding of z/OS components
• z/OS System Programming and Software Development skill including USS / 3270 terminal MVS programs Datasets JCL and jobs TSO ISPF JES2 RMF SMF z/OS / parmlib configuration.