Job Description:

The Enterprise Infrastructure (EI) Operations Services team is looking for an extremely motivated z/OS Capacity Planner and Performance Engineer (Principal level). You will work in a team focused on providing stability through solving and preventing performance problems and providing capacity planning services at the hardware, software, and business application levels. In this role, you will be responsible for providing monitoring, analysis and reporting of utilization levels and business volumes as well as provide forecasting and recommend provisioning of resources for mainframe processor and peripheral hardware components. You will also be responsible for monitoring, tuning, and reporting on z/OS performance and efficiency.

As a Mainframe Capacity and Performance Engineer on the team, you will be expected to use standard industry methods and tools to solve complex performance and capacity issues and innovate new methods and reports to provide value to the mission.

This responsibility includes collaborating and partnering across the entire organization and with vendor partners. As a member of the Enterprise Infrastructure and Operations team, the Capacity Planner and Performance Engineer is both technically competent and business oriented. Our team supports internal customers spread across a variety of business and technical units.

The Expertise You Have

• Strong working experience as a Capacity & Performance Engineer providing performance improvements and evaluating capacity needs, both present and future, in a complex enterprise

• Ability to work under minimal supervision

• Solid knowledge IBM zEnterprise server hardware and of RMF, SMF, SAS, MXG, Intellimagic and other tools.

• Ability to design complex SYSPLEX configurations

• Extensive history creating metrics reports for daily operations, projects, and ad hoc requests with demonstrable ability to analyze data to identify trends and process enhancement opportunities

• Experience working in an Agile environment

The Skills You Bring

• Committed to advancing our tools, technology, and ways of working to better serve our clients and their evolving business needs.

• Experience and confidence working with all levels of leadership; excellent written and verbal skills with ability to connect with senior leadership, quickly and concisely, relaying technical summaries in non-technical terms.

• Self-motivated and collaborative in your approach.

The Value You Deliver

• Provides technical support and reporting for other EI teams/users and other mainframe BU partners for performance related issues.

• Reviews MIPS consumption at the CPC, LPAR, and ASID level and adjusts where necessary to meet business needs.

• Plan, forecast, monitor, and tune capacity and performance of hardware, operating systems, storage devices, and applications to address applications and user service requirements.

• Review mainframe batch cycle runs to ensure timely ends and adjust capacity to meet the SLAs.

• Provides projected mainframe capacity studies for new mainframes and/or capacity increases.

• Reviews and actively manages system memory usage for both LPARs and Coupling Facilities and submits changes to effectively utilize those resources more efficiently.

• Understand and analyze Batch Performance with recommendations to help meet batch SLOs/SLAs.

• Understand and recommend optimal DR Performance/Capacity configuration.

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Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients' money.

At Fidelity, you'll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples' lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a Best Place to Work in 2023. And you don't need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you've always imagined.

At Fidelity, our goal is for most people to work flexibly in a way that balances both personal and business needs with time onsite and offsite through what we’re calling “Dynamic Working”. Most associates will have a hybrid schedule with a requirement to work onsite at a Fidelity work location for at least one week, 5 consecutive days, every four weeks. These requirements are subject to change.

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