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IBM Senior z/OS Infrastructure Performance Consultant (f/m/x) in Böblingen, Germany

Introduction

The team your are joining consults with customers to leverage our unique AIOps solutions to provide meaningful insight into the performance of hardware, middleware, and applications in IBM Z environments. IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS empowers mainframe sites to prevent service disruptions before they occur and utilize measurement data insights to lower costs and optimize business applications.

Your Role and Responsibilities

PURPOSE:

Senior z/OS Infrastructure Performance consultants at IBM support pre-sales, post-sales and consulting activities for the IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS performance analysis software solution. The particular roles and responsibilities will vary depending on the individual's skills and the business requirements at any particular time..

ESSENTIAL DUTIES, RESPONSIBLITIES & OUTCOMES:

  • In support of sales cycles: Conduct technical aspects of discovery calls, conduct software demonstrations, lead technical aspects of software Proof of Concepts, support all technical aspects of the pre-sales processes

  • Support the data collection process and/or installation of software for onsite or SaaS implementations

  • Provide technical account ownership to assigned accounts support all technical aspects of the account.

  • Provide performance analysis of z/OS Systems, DB2, CICS, MQ, WAS, TCP/IP, Disk, Replication or Tape

Consult with assigned prospects and customers to determine performance requirements, processes, analysis, make recommendations, etc.

  • Work with the development teams to communicate assigned customer and prospect requirements

  • Provide level 2-3 product technical support for assigned customers as needed

  • Provide technical marketing content as assigned such as white papers, webinars and technical blogs

  • Pro-actively identify potential performance issues

  • Identify z/OS Systems efficiency opportunities as required per contract

  • Develop remediation plans to address performance issues

  • Train customers on IntelliMagic products and performance best practices

  • Create product installation guides, white papers, and contribute to technical blogs

  • Work with the larger team to creatively solve technical and process related challenges in support of customer requirements.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • 10+ years of experience with performance analysis using RMF and SMF data for key areas of the z/OS infrastructure

  • Knowledge of RMF and SMF performance record types and data collection processes

  • Knowledge of z/OS Systems, Disk, Tape, Network TCP/IP, zOS Connect, MQ, DB2, CICS

  • Excellent written and oral communication

  • Listening effectively

  • Problem solving

  • Deductive and inductive reasoning

  • Customer service

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

N/A

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