System Performance Analyst

June 15, 2025
Application ends: December 31, 2025
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Job Description

As a System Performance Analyst, you will be critical to making sure pinnacle-rated common overall overall performance of IBM’s employer server and cloud systems. You will:

  • Analyze, benchmark, and song workload regular overall performance inside the course of the stack—from hardware microarchitecture, hypervisors, and virtualization layers to operating systems and database engines.
  • Lead debugging efforts for production normal basic performance troubles, taking issue with firmware, software program application, and hardware engineering corporations.
  • Develop automation frameworks, traditional common standard overall performance check instances, and reporting gear to reveal and improve tool typical fundamental performance.

🔧 Key Responsibilities

Performance Analysis & Tuning

  • Characterize and benchmark workloads (e.G., SAP HANA, I/O, cloud packages) on IBM Power and x86/Linux structures.
  • Identify bottlenecks at CPU, memory, 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 usual common overall performance records.
  • Develop automation scripts (Python, Bash, Ansible) and dashboards to streamline not unusual typical performance trying out .

Collaboration & Optimization

  • Work cautiously with firmware, OS, hypervisor, garage, and database businesses to refine regularly occurring regular performance.
  • Provide tuning recommendations for virtualization and database trendy normal 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 trendy universal performance effects, and manual device and form upgrades.

👨‍🎓 Qualifications & Technical Skills

Education: Bachelor’s diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or associated difficulty (Master’s preferred).

Experience:

  • eight–15+ years in IT/engineering, with 3–6+ years focused on tool average performance analytics .
  • Strong fingers-on revel in with Linux and virtualization machine (PowerVM, KVM, z/VM).

Technical Proficiency:

  • Deep records of pc form, OS internals, hypervisor and virtual I/O components.
  • Proficiency in C/C++, Python, Bash, Golang, with familiarity in Java, Rust.
  • Performance tuning experience with database engines (Oracle, SAP HANA).
  • Skilled in standard performance profiling gadget and automation (vmstat, topas, iostat, nmon, Ansible).

Soft Skills:

  • Excellent verbal exchange and presentation abilties to articulate universal overall performance insights and collaborate with pass-beneficial organizations