Senior Mainframe Storage Systems Programmer

September 15

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Support mission critical workloads • Reduce total cost of ownership • Modernize your infrastructure • Manage and migrate between systems • Managing business complexity

1001 - 5000 employees

Description

• As a member of the mainframe Storage team, the responsible individual will work on storage infrastructure administration, configuration, and installation. • This encompasses DASD, tape, virtual tape, encryption, and replication for backup and DR capabilities. • The associate will perform software and hardware refreshes, customer migrations and daily customer support. • Provide DASD and tape storage administration support for our customers. • Manage storage pools for multiple customers and LPARs. • Perform problem diagnostics and resolution. • Create and oversee jobs for daily, weekly, and monthly backups. • Participate in Data Center migration projects using multiple methodologies. • Perform data and volume recovery. • Perform data migrations between storage frames for existing customers. • Participate in Disaster Recovery Tests. • Interact with account management and with our customers. • Interact with hardware and software vendors as required. • Mentor and train Storage team members.

Requirements

• Strong analytical, problem resolution and root cause analysis skills. • Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently. • Ability to analyze performance on DASD and tape subsystems. • Extensive skills with IBM storage software including IBM Copy Services Manager/Global Mirroring, SMS, HSM, IDCAMS, and DFDSS. • Experience in preparing and implementing Disaster Recovery plans. • Expert knowledge of catalog structures, LPAR sysplexes, and resource sharing. • Extensive knowledge of DASD hardware configurations incorporating replication. • Extensive skills with IBM and Oracle/STK tape hardware and software. • Extensive skills with CA-1, MIMTape. • Functional skills with Dell/EMC. • Functional skills with RMM, TLMS, GRS, Tapecopy, and SMF.