zOS DevX Performance Engineer

Hybrid - Bangalore, IN

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into solutions. Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.

Responsibilities

• Execute benchmarks to identify hotspots/bottlenecks in the Developer Experience & zOS stack implementation
• Analyze the SMF and RMF records on z/OS
• Provide hands-on expertise on zOS System Programming
• Debug zOS applications
• Evaluate the performance across the IBM zSW and middleware products
• Suggest and implement platform specific changes/improvements using prototypes as proof points
• Define performance scenarios, test cases/suites, parameters and targets to accomplish as a team
• Identify and suggest tools, utilities, benchmarks and methodologies to evaluate the performance and fine tune the product
• Contribute to performance analysis and study by executing benchmarks and collecting various performance measurements and metrics
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders including research, development, sales, offering, marketing teams to ensure product is highlighted by showcasing performance collaterals
• Work with peer Product Owners, Architects, and Managers to project the status of the tasks at hand as well as propose any implementation changes beneficial to the overall product

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 10+ years of z System Programming experience
• 10+ years of experience as Performance engineer in working with z Middleware and Software Applications
• 8+ years of experience with Performance test, analysis, tuning, optimization and associated performance tools and utilities
• 5+ years of experience in performance analysis and problem determination, quick prototyping and iterative experimentation
• Proven experience in measuring performance of Frontend, Middleware and AI products
• Ability to write/modifying Shell Programs - Bash, KSH, CSH
• Proficient with USS/Linux development environment (command line development, configuration, libraries, etc.)
• 5+ years of experience as a technical lead to translate requirements into work items (stories)
• Strong analytical, debugging and problem solving skills to analyse issues and defects reported by customer-facing and test teams
• Strong team player with good communication and interpersonal skills
• Proven ability to work effectively in a global team environment