Mainframe Performance and Capacity Tech Lead
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Charlotte, North Carolina
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Nov 15, 2019
View more
- Category
- IT
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Where good people build rewarding careers.
Think that working in the insurance field can’t be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. You’ll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers’ lives. We’ll help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And you’ll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Job Description
Think Technology- Think Allstate
We build solutions that touch 16 million customers on a daily basis.
You will work alongside people as passionate as you, focused on delivering the best possible user experiences.
You will work in a highly collaborative environment primed to adapt to an ever-changing landscape and which places technology solutions at its core.
You will thrive, you will think differently, you will challenge convention and have the freedom to act with integrity, intention and speed; you will be at the forefront of developing capabilities in support of Allstate’s global business model; you will deliver results and you will leave things better than you found them.
The Opportunity
Executing over 30 billion transactions a day worldwide, IBM Z is critical to Allstate databases, transaction servers, and applications that require high reliability, scalability, compatibility and security. Allstate’s IBM Z (Mainframe) Engineers develop technical solutions which enable our business partners, customers, agents, and employees to reach and exceed their goals.
We’re looking for a resource who can work with engineers and clients to optimize the enterprise mainframe performance
We’re looking for strategic, innovative thinkers who excel at providing fresh, creative solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Manages the enterprise mainframe server strategy and capacity planning functions including the configuration, maintenance and implementation of mainframe servers in a multi datacenter, multi sysplex environment.
- Maintains WLM policy definitions, capacity provisioning manager (CPM) thresholds, assesses sub-systems (DB2, IMS, CICS) and application systems performance and monitors server utilization.
- Prepares and reviews regular health check reporting identifying trends and takes appropriate actions
- Drives strategy for mainframe performance by researching and exploiting new technology and capabilities.
- Ability to work closely with mainframe infrastructure teams and business application clients to resolve complex performance issues
- Identifies performance tuning and configuration options opportunities to ensure the mainframe systems are running in the most efficient and cost-effective manner
- Controls cost by targeting performance tuning for high usage system and application components and uses of mainframe configuration options.
Job Qualifications
The ideal person will be able to demonstrate the following competencies:
- Self-motivated and self-directed
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to operate effectively as part of a geographically dispersed team
- Lead by example and be an advocate for change
- Ability to collaborate with leadership and senior level technicians to assist in setting technical direction
- Stakeholder Management with business application clients and vendors
- Strong interpersonal, collaboration and team skills
- Effective oral and written communication
Essential criteria
- Strong statistical and analytical skills with extensive knowledge and understanding of Mainframe capacity and workload planning concepts and analysis and be able undertake capacity forecasting
- At least a minimum of 8 years’ experience of capacity planning and performance tuning in the zOS multi sysplex architecture and Workload Manager (WLM)
- In-depth knowledge of RMF, SMF, Omegamon, Tivoli Decision Support, MXG, IBM Capacity Products
- Good knowledge of MF Subsystems CICS, MQ, IMS and DB2
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands®.
As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary – but that’s just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, you’ll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.
For jobs in San Francisco, please click “here” for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For jobs in Los Angeles, please click “here” for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
To view the “EEO is the Law” poster click “here”. This poster provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
To view the FMLA poster, click “here”. This poster summarizing the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint.
It is the Company’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.
Company
- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
Get job alerts
Create a job alert and receive personalized job recommendations straight to your inbox.
Create alert