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Sr. Capacity Planning Engineer
Date: Sep 9, 2010
Location: Roseland, NJ, US
Requisition #: IT27606
Division: Information Technology
Job Title: Sr. Capacity Planning Engineer
Country: United States
State: New Jersey
City: Roseland
Locations: Michigan, Ann Arbor
New Jersey, Roseland
Employment Status: Full Time - Permanent
Job Responsibilities:
(Description)
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. is one of the largest providers of business outsourcing solutions to employers and vehicle dealerships around the world. We bring 60 years of unrivaled industry experience to the marketplace. Over 80% of the FORTUNE 500 companies and over 90% of the FORTUNE 100 companies use at least one of ADP’s services. ADP serves more than 560,000 organizations in over 60 countries, including nearly 400,000 small business clients and about approximately 26,000 vehicle dealerships. www.ADP.com
ADP is looking for a Capacity Planning Engineer, this person will be responsible for the capacity models for distributed system applications to accurately predict future hardware needs:
- Provide future business growth trends and incorporate into capacity models
- Develop hardware what-if scenarios to measure price performance, consolidation opportunities and platform synergies possibilities
- Identify application performance bottlenecks and recommend remediation strategies
- Assist in planning, managing and implementing system engineering projects as they relate to capacity and performance tuning activities
- Participate in technical architecture discussions to determine the most appropriate scalable model taking into consideration high availability, failover and disaster recovery
- Provide volume estimates to application performance test teams, review test results, raise performance and/or capacity related concerns for remediation
- Lead the evaluation of capacity and performance changes due to related upgrades to production (e.g. Major software/ infrastructure release).
-Triage production performance problems in arrears.
Qualifications Required
(Experience, Skills, Academic):
Education: Bachelors Degree, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience and certifications
Skills and Experience:
- At least 10 years work experience in technology field
- Min 5 years experience involved in some capacity and performance related activities (e.g. capacity planner, performance analyst, information system modeler)
- Quantifiable experience in information infrastructure performance assessment. This includes the complete analysis of perceived performance problems carried through to the quantifiable identification of the root-cause in a multi-tiered environment.
- Experience in the use of mathematical analysis to characterize and resolve problems.
- Ability to successfully communicate with personnel from a wide range of engineering, analytical, and software development specialties.
- Solid oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work loosely supervised; run project meetings; drive innovation and solutions
Technical:
- Knowledge and experience with capacity/performance collection tools e.g. BMC Performance Assurance or BMC Perform/Predict, Hyperformix, Opnet, HP Capacity Advisor, Metron's Athene, TeamTrack, etc
- Working knowledge of Windows, Unix, Linux - Strong knowledge of Web Based Infrastructures, J2EE and/or .NET - Working knowledge of database structures, modeling and tools - Some knowledge of automated testing tools (HP LoadRunner, Open Source, etc.)
-VMWare VSphere farm exposure or any virtualization infrastructure exposure with responsibility for virtual guest performance, capacity or overall management.
ADP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Act Employer; M/F/D/V. ADP believes that diversity leads to strength.
Education: Bachelors
Job Category: Technology
Area of Interest: Technolgy and Data Services
Division: Information Technology
Job Title: Sr. Capacity Planning Engineer
Country: United States
State: New Jersey
City: Roseland
Locations: Michigan, Ann Arbor
New Jersey, Roseland
Employment Status: Full Time - Permanent
Job Responsibilities:
(Description)
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. is one of the largest providers of business outsourcing solutions to employers and vehicle dealerships around the world. We bring 60 years of unrivaled industry experience to the marketplace. Over 80% of the FORTUNE 500 companies and over 90% of the FORTUNE 100 companies use at least one of ADP’s services. ADP serves more than 560,000 organizations in over 60 countries, including nearly 400,000 small business clients and about approximately 26,000 vehicle dealerships. www.ADP.com
ADP is looking for a Capacity Planning Engineer, this person will be responsible for the capacity models for distributed system applications to accurately predict future hardware needs:
- Provide future business growth trends and incorporate into capacity models
- Develop hardware what-if scenarios to measure price performance, consolidation opportunities and platform synergies possibilities
- Identify application performance bottlenecks and recommend remediation strategies
- Assist in planning, managing and implementing system engineering projects as they relate to capacity and performance tuning activities
- Participate in technical architecture discussions to determine the most appropriate scalable model taking into consideration high availability, failover and disaster recovery
- Provide volume estimates to application performance test teams, review test results, raise performance and/or capacity related concerns for remediation
- Lead the evaluation of capacity and performance changes due to related upgrades to production (e.g. Major software/ infrastructure release).
-Triage production performance problems in arrears.
Qualifications Required
(Experience, Skills, Academic):
Education: Bachelors Degree, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience and certifications
Skills and Experience:
- At least 10 years work experience in technology field
- Min 5 years experience involved in some capacity and performance related activities (e.g. capacity planner, performance analyst, information system modeler)
- Quantifiable experience in information infrastructure performance assessment. This includes the complete analysis of perceived performance problems carried through to the quantifiable identification of the root-cause in a multi-tiered environment.
- Experience in the use of mathematical analysis to characterize and resolve problems.
- Ability to successfully communicate with personnel from a wide range of engineering, analytical, and software development specialties.
- Solid oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work loosely supervised; run project meetings; drive innovation and solutions
Technical:
- Knowledge and experience with capacity/performance collection tools e.g. BMC Performance Assurance or BMC Perform/Predict, Hyperformix, Opnet, HP Capacity Advisor, Metron's Athene, TeamTrack, etc
- Working knowledge of Windows, Unix, Linux - Strong knowledge of Web Based Infrastructures, J2EE and/or .NET - Working knowledge of database structures, modeling and tools - Some knowledge of automated testing tools (HP LoadRunner, Open Source, etc.)
-VMWare VSphere farm exposure or any virtualization infrastructure exposure with responsibility for virtual guest performance, capacity or overall management.
ADP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Act Employer; M/F/D/V. ADP believes that diversity leads to strength.
Education: Bachelors
Job Category: Technology
Area of Interest: Technolgy and Data Services
Nearest Major Market: New York City
Nearest Secondary Market: Newark
Job Segments: .NET, Database, Developer, Engineer, Engineering, Linux, Mid-Range, Open Source, Systems Engineer, Technology, Testing, Unix, Virtualization
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