Job Description
As a System Performance Analyst, you will be crucial to ensuring top-rated average overall performance of IBM’s organization server and cloud systems. You will:
- Analyze, benchmark, and track workload typical performance in the course of the stack—from hardware microarchitecture, hypervisors, and virtualization layers to operating systems and database engines.
- Lead debugging efforts for production normal overall performance issues, taking factor with firmware, software program, and hardware engineering corporations.
- Develop automation frameworks, traditional usual overall performance test times, and reporting gear to reveal and improve device typical basic performance.
🔧 Key Responsibilities
Performance Analysis & Tuning
- Characterize and benchmark workloads (e.G., SAP HANA, I/O, cloud applications) on IBM Power and x86/Linux structures.
- Identify bottlenecks at CPU, reminiscence, hypervisor (PowerVM, KVM, z/VM), I/O subsystems, and database layers.
Environment Setup & Tooling
- Build test environments leveraging IBM PowerVM virtualization and hybrid cloud infrastructure.
- Utilize gear like vmstat, iostat, nmon, topas, plus profiling and analytics equipment to build up and interpret typical overall performance information.
- Develop automation scripts (Python, Bash, Ansible) and dashboards to streamline common overall performance trying out .
Collaboration & Optimization
- Work carefully with firmware, OS, hypervisor, storage, and database corporations to refine accepted normal performance.
- Provide tuning suggestions for virtualization and database general overall performance (e.G., Oracle, SAP HANA).
Benchmarking & Reporting
- Design and execute benchmark and strain conditions for IBM Z, LinuxONE, or hybrid cloud setups.
- Simulate real-international workloads, interpret wellknown overall performance outcomes, and manual device and shape upgrades.
👨🎓 Qualifications & Technical Skills
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or associated issue (Master’s desired).
Experience:
- 8–15+ years in IT/engineering, with three–6+ years focused on device overall performance analytics .
- Strong fingers-on revel in with Linux and virtualization machine (PowerVM, KVM, z/VM).
Technical Proficiency:
- Deep statistics of laptop form, OS internals, hypervisor and virtual I/O components.
- Proficiency in C/C++, Python, Bash, Golang, with familiarity in Java, Rust.
- Performance tuning revel in with database engines (Oracle, SAP HANA).
- Skilled in usual performance profiling gadget and automation (vmstat, topas, iostat, nmon, Ansible).
Soft Skills:
Excellent conversation and presentation capabilities to articulate overall performance insights and collaborate with bypass-useful companies