Performance and Capacity Manager

Performance and Capacity Manager

The performance and Capacity Team is responsible for the delivery of cost effective capacity management to ensure an optimal performance of all business processes and services based on planned variations in demand.  

Responsibilities:

- Performance engineering and capacity management activities to assist in delivering a robust and reliable global FX Settlement Service to the financial markets.   
- Ensuring the proactive detection and management of performance or capacity issues and ensure they are resolved in a timely manner.  
- Balance business and service demand with available capacity and against IT cost.
- Responsible for setting up and developing the performance and capacity monitoring and reporting requirements for applications and infrastructures.
- Validate and communicate system characteristics and maximum capabilities in terms of both performance and capacity
- Analyse system behaviours and identify potential areas of concern regarding future stress/pinch points.  Build an action plan for resolution
- Participate in the project life cycle  from business case  to delivery in the production environment
- Assess any planned changes from projects, business or service demands for performance or capacity impact
- Undertake performance and capacity  modelling activities in order to assess the impact of change on the available performance and capacity
- Regularly report on performance and capacity findings to stakeholders
- Evolve performance and capacity  processes in line with the  changing environment and IT strategy and ensure all performance and capacity processes are appropriately documented and communicated
- Maintain the Performance AIX; DB2; MQ
- SWIFT messaging - SWIFTNet and FIN ;
- Microsoft Infrastructure - Blade Enclosures, SQL, Perfmon
- Linux
- VMWare

Preferable:

- XML messaging and associated XML standards (eg ISO20022)
- SAN Storage systems: EMC DMX and  VMAX, IBM DS8000 series
- Networking Infrastructure - Core switching, WAN optimisers, VLAN's, Eye of the Storm, Cisco Routers & Switches
- Service Management qualifications - ITIL (desirable)

The performance and Capacity Team is responsible for the delivery of cost effective capacity management to ensure an optimal performance of all business processes and services based on planned variations in demand.  

Responsibilities:

- Performance engineering and capacity management activities to assist in delivering a robust and reliable global FX Settlement Service to the financial markets.   
- Ensuring the proactive detection and management of performance or capacity issues and ensure they are resolved in a timely manner.  
- Balance business and service demand with available capacity and against IT cost.
- Responsible for setting up and developing the performance and capacity monitoring and reporting requirements for applications and infrastructures.
- Validate and communicate system characteristics and maximum capabilities in terms of both performance and capacity
- Analyse system behaviours and identify potential areas of concern regarding future stress/pinch points.  Build an action plan for resolution
- Participate in the project life cycle  from business case  to delivery in the production environment
- Assess any planned changes from projects, business or service demands for performance or capacity impact
- Undertake performance and capacity  modelling activities in order to assess the impact of change on the available performance and capacity
- Regularly report on performance and capacity findings to stakeholders
- Evolve performance and capacity  processes in line with the  changing environment and IT strategy and ensure all performance and capacity processes are appropriately documented and communicated
- Maintain the Performance AIX; DB2; MQ
- SWIFT messaging - SWIFTNet and FIN ;
- Microsoft Infrastructure - Blade Enclosures, SQL, Perfmon
- Linux
- VMWare

Preferable:

- XML messaging and associated XML standards (eg ISO20022)
- SAN Storage systems: EMC DMX and  VMAX, IBM DS8000 series
- Networking Infrastructure - Core switching, WAN optimisers, VLAN's, Eye of the Storm, Cisco Routers & Switches
-  Service Management qualifications - ITIL (desirable)