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Our client is looking for a Senior Technology Architect for a 11 month contract in Toronto. This is an onsite role. Rate: $704.19 - $737.2
Job Responsibility:
Preparing mainframe capacity assessments to application development and infrastructure teams for project related workload changes
Provide and document incident analysis, resolution, and prevention, designing procedures and best practice techniques, using IBM and ISV online tools for opening and managing incident report tracking and resolution
Plan, configure and support installation of new Mainframe hardware platform
Collaborate with internal business partners in IT Operations, application development, Infrastructure, and IT Production Support to accomplish organizational goals that are consistent in supporting both IT and Business objectives
Provide migration support for Mainframe software, networking components
Provide decommissioning support for Mainframe software and program products
Closure of tickets in a timely manner, Keeping clients/management up to date on ticket status
Must adhere to Service Level Agreement (SLA) metrics, device maintenance
Providing technical MOP for all changes, ability to provide acquire system captures and articulate/document capture and point or root cause.
Requirements:
Minimum of 7 years demonstrated 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