At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage mainframe capacity and performance to meet business needs while optimizing resources.
- Company: Join Atos, a global leader in AI-powered digital services.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, diverse work culture, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Diversity and inclusion are core values at Atos, fostering a fair workplace.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a mission-critical environment with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in z/OS mainframe, strong analytical skills, and leadership abilities.
The predicted salary is between 90000 - 110000 $ per year.
Atos is the Atos Group brand dedicated to AI-powered, secure, end-to-end digital services. Atos designs, develops, and operates critical digital environments that drive performance, resilience and sovereignty, helping public and private organizations worldwide retain control over their data and infrastructures, while meeting regulatory requirements.
With more than 52,000 employees serving over 4,500 clients across 54 countries, Atos helps modernize core IT systems, accelerate cloud and data transformation, strengthen cybersecurity, and deliver secure digital workplace environments to support its clients, its employees and society. Atos also provides consulting and advisory services through its Atos Amplify brand.
The Capacity and Performance Manager ensures that mainframe capacity and performance meet current and future business needs while optimizing cost and resource utilization. This role analyzes capacity and performance data, trends, incidents, thresholds, and forecasts to proactively identify constraints and prevent system overload.
The role ensures that IT component capacity is sufficient to meet required service levels, optimizes utilization of existing resources, and provides recommendations regarding capacity requirements, demand forecasts, performance improvements, and appropriate service levels.
Responsibilities:
- Perform capacity planning as needed, typically for specific hardware or software platforms.
- Gather and analyze business demand, workload, utilization, and forecast data required to develop capacity plans.
- Review capacity and performance reports, assess risks and opportunities, and recommend actions.
- Create and adapt capacity assessment criteria and alert thresholds.
- Ensure that monitoring levels for resource capacity and system performance are adequate.
- Determine the most appropriate forecasting methods and implement them.
- Forecast trends in component usage based on available data.
- Identify, interpret, and disseminate information used in the capacity decision-making process.
- Participate in the development of capacity plans by evaluating forecasts and identifying capacity needs.
- Monitor trends in component utilization and report capacity variances.
- Produce technical and management reports at regular intervals detailing actual component utilization, trends, and forecasts.
- Monitor the potential effects of software and middleware on hardware utilization.
- Evaluate new hardware and software that could improve the efficiency of the capacity management process.
- Verify that reliability, availability, and disaster recovery requirements are considered in capacity planning activities.
- Reduce software costs and maximize the use of existing resources.
- Obtain performance and capacity information to facilitate incident or problem resolution.
- Develop a capacity plan that enables the achievement of capacity management process objectives.
- Proactively generate a forecast report, based on past trends, to anticipate volume and upcoming peaks.
Experience:
- Degree or equivalent experience in Computer science, systems, or related field.
- 5+ years in a z/OS mainframe environment.
- Experience in capacity planning, performance, or operations.
- Experience in mission-critical environments (public sector or large enterprises).
Key technical skills:
- SMF/RMF data analysis.
- Advanced concepts: CPU / MSU / R4HA.
- Tools: MXG / Excel / Power BI / OMEGAMON or equivalent tools.
Analytical skills:
- Trend analysis and capacity forecasting.
- Rapid identification of capacity constraints.
- Strong ability to synthesize information for decision-making.
Leadership & Soft Skills:
- Takes ownership of capacity and performance outcomes.
- Anticipates capacity and performance risks, identifies root causes, and implements solutions.
- Uses data and sound judgment to prioritize issues and recommend timely actions.
- Builds alignment across technical and business teams to drive decisions.
Preferred Experience:
- Formal mainframe training or relevant technical certifications.
- Experience with z15 / z16 zIIP optimization / offloading.
- Advanced tools (zBNA, IntelliMagic, BMC AMI OPS).
- Automation / scripting (REXX, Python).
Here at Atos, diversity and inclusion are embedded in our DNA. Atos is a recognized leader in its industry across Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria.
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At Atos, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through continuous learning opportunities and a supportive work environment, particularly in our vibrant Canadian offices. With a focus on diversity and inclusion, we ensure that every team member feels valued while contributing to meaningful projects that drive digital transformation across various sectors.
