Senior Mainframe Storage Systems Programmer

September 15, 2024

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Ensono

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Ensono is a managed service provider and expert technology advisor focused on enabling clients to navigate complex IT environments. Ensono offers services including mainframe-as-a-service, cloud migration, and IT infrastructure management, with a strong emphasis on modernizing legacy systems and optimizing IT operations. The company is recognized for its flexibility and allyship, providing businesses with the ability to adapt and evolve through solutions like Ensono Flex®. It specializes in both mainframe and cloud solutions, holding competency in AWS mainframe modernization and is a global Azure Expert MSP. Ensono acts as an ally, helping companies achieve better business outcomes through IT innovation and strategic technology advisement.

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.