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Our technology powers the world’s economy, and our teams bring innovation to life. We champion diversity to deliver the best products and solutions for our colleagues, clients and communities. If you’re ready to start learning, growing and making an impact with a career in fintech, we’d like to know: Are you FIS?\nAbout the Role:\nYou will lead capacity planning and performance management activities for enterprise z/OS mainframe environments supporting critical financial services workloads. The role focuses on forecasting resource demand, optimizing system performance, and ensuring infrastructure readiness to meet business growth and service-level objectives. You will collaborate with infrastructure, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to translate workload trends into actionable capacity strategies. Success is measured through system reliability, efficient resource utilization, accurate forecasting, and proactive risk management.\nWhat You Will Be Doing:\nAnalyze CPU, memory, storage, network, and workload utilization across z/OS environments\nDevelop short-term and long-term capacity forecasts using historical and predictive analysis techniques\nMonitor performance trends and identify risks impacting availability, throughput, and scalability\nCreate capacity models supporting business growth, application changes, and infrastructure modernization\nPartner with engineering and operations teams to optimize system performance and resource utilization\nEvaluate workload characteristics and recommend tuning opportunities for improved efficiency\nPrepare executive and operational reporting on capacity consumption, trends, and future requirements\nSupport budget planning through infrastructure demand forecasting and capacity recommendations\nAssess the capacity impact of new applications, platform upgrades, and technology initiatives\nMaintain capacity planning standards, documentation, metrics, and governance processes\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in information technology, computer science, or a related field\nExperience supporting and analyzing IBM z/OS mainframe environments\nStrong expertise in capacity planning, performance analysis, and infrastructure forecasting\nProficiency interpreting system performance metrics and workload utilization data\nKnowledge of mainframe architecture, processor technologies, storage, and subsystem performance\nExperience with capacity management, trend analysis, statistical modeling, and reporting tools\nAbility to communicate technical findings and recommendations to business and technology stakeholders\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, and data-driven decision-making skills\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience with SMF, CMF, MXG, SAS, MICS, or similar performance and capacity management tools\nKnowledge of workload management concepts and mainframe performance tuning practices\nExperience supporting financial services, banking, payments, or highly regulated environments\nFamiliarity with automation, scripting, or data analytics platforms used for infrastructure reporting\nUnderstanding of hybrid infrastructure environments and enterprise technology planning\nWhat We Offer you:\nAt FIS, you can grow your career as far as you want to take it. Here’s what else we offer:\nOpportunities to make an impact in fintech\nPersonal and professional learning\nInclusive, diverse work environment\nResources to give back to your community\nCompetitive salary and benefits\nFIS is committed to providing its employees with an exciting career opportunity and competitive compensation. The pay range for this full-time position is $111,650.00 - $189,810.00 and reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for this position based on the posted role, level, and location. Within the range, actual individual starting pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Any changes in work location will also impact actual individual starting pay. Please consult with your recruiter about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.Privacy Statement\nFIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice.\nEEOC Statement\nFIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here\nFor positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.\nSourcing Model\nRecruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. 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