Capacity Planner/Manager

Capacity Planner - IT/Infra

Large Banking Client

Duration: 12-18+ months

Location: Charlotte, NC or Plano, TX (3 days onsite, 2 remote)

Top Requirements:

• Solid understanding of capacity management
• Ability to build capacity models
• Strong grasp of transaction processing and its effect on applications
• Infrastructure knowledge
• 12 years of experience
• Excellent communication skills to work with fast-paced, sharp clients in Global Markets

Day to Day Responsibilities / Project Specifics:

• Support capacity management for new applications in Global Markets
• Utilize an existing process while applying deeper understanding of capacity planning
• Collaborate with adjacent teams to improve reporting accuracy and prevent outages
• Communicate with internal stakeholders and clients to align on capacity needs and forecasts

Work will include:

• BVI / Demand gathering initial efforts to be focused on existing data and will expand to AITs for creation
• Focus will be primarily assisting Global Markets Production Support Capacity owners in bringing in new AITs
• Candidate will assist with multiple applications onboarding and have a specific set of deliverables around Performance and Capacity
• Includes Risk and Regulatory Management, Information Security Generalist Skills, Information Security Management
• Candidate will be required to review technical application documentation to identify potential capacity impacts alongside Markets Production Support owners
• Candidate will work with Production Support owners to collectively assist in providing forecasts and models for performance and capacity of impacted components
• Once performance testing is underway, the candidate will review saturation test results and artifacts to measure and interpret capacity thresholds/limits
• The candidate will provide support and consulting to the Production Support owners for the application(s) in question

Experience/ Preferred Skills:

• Minimum experienced greater than 3-5 years of IT Capacity Management
• Demonstrate knowledge of capacity planning methodologies
• Demonstrate knowledge of mathematical/statistical and quantitative analytics
• Demonstrate knowledge of ITIL capacity management best practices COBIT framework
• The candidate will be expected to foster a culture of support and knowledge sharing

Desired Experience with:

• Infrastructure architecture
• ITSM
• AppDynamics/DynaTrace
• Splunk
• Operating System Performance Measurement Tools (SAR/PerfMon)
• True Sight Capacity Optimizer
• Agile Framework Jira/Confluence

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