z/OS Mainframe Capacity Planning Specialist

Location: United States, Florida, Jacksonville (US FL JAX 347)

Salary: $111,650–$189,810 per year

Company

hirify.global provides technology and financial services solutions that support the global economy.

What you will do

• Lead capacity planning and performance management for enterprise IBM z/OS mainframe environments supporting critical financial services workloads.
• Analyze CPU, memory, storage, network, and workload utilization data across z/OS environments.
• Develop short- and long-term capacity forecasts, models, and infrastructure demand recommendations.
• Monitor performance trends, identify availability and scalability risks, and recommend tuning opportunities.
• Assess the capacity impact of new applications, platform upgrades, modernization initiatives, and business growth.
• Prepare executive and operational reporting while maintaining capacity planning standards, metrics, documentation, and governance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in information technology, computer science, or a related field.
• Experience supporting and analyzing IBM z/OS mainframe environments.
• Strong expertise in capacity planning, performance analysis, infrastructure forecasting, trend analysis, and statistical modeling.
• Knowledge of mainframe architecture, processor technologies, storage, subsystem performance, and workload utilization metrics.
• Ability to communicate technical findings and recommendations to business, infrastructure, engineering, and operations stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data-driven decision-making skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with SMF, CMF, MXG, SAS, MICS, or similar performance and capacity management tools.
• Knowledge of workload management and mainframe performance tuning practices.
• Experience in financial services, banking, payments, or highly regulated environments.
• Familiarity with automation, scripting, data analytics platforms, hybrid infrastructure, and enterprise technology planning.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunities to make an impact in fintech.
• Personal and professional learning resources.
• Inclusive and diverse work environment.
• Resources to support community involvement.
• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Conditional US employment offers require a drug test.