Remote Mainframe Storage & Disaster Recovery Lead

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd; Greater London; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd is seeking an experienced Storage Administrator & Disaster Recovery Manager to support a major mainframe project on a fully remote UK basis. The role blends hands-on IBM z/OS storage administration with disaster recovery planning and execution, ensuring availability, resilience and recoverability of critical systems.

You will work with wider technical teams and client stakeholders to maintain storage availability, capacity and performance, manage datasets,

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Mainframe Storage Administrator, Storage Specialist or Storage & Disaster Recovery professional.
• Strong knowledge of IBM mainframe storage environments and DFSMS family.
• Experience with DASD, tape storage and replication technologies.
• Familiarity with GDPS and mainframe DR solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on administration across the IBM mainframe storage environment.
• Manage datasets, files and storage resources to maintain availability.
• Support backup, restore and data recovery activities.
• Plan, coordinate and execute disaster recovery testing and exercises.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and wider technical teams to ensure DR readiness.

Skills

Mainframe storage administration

IFR/DFSMS/DFSMShsm/DFSMSdss

Disaster recovery planning

Incident management

IBM z/OS storage

Storage performance optimization

Data backup & restore

Storage & DR readiness

Strong communication

Job description

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd is seeking an experienced Storage Administrator & Disaster Recovery Manager to support a major mainframe project on a fully remote UK basis. The role blends hands-on IBM z/OS storage administration with disaster recovery planning and execution, ensuring availability, resilience and recoverability of critical systems.

You will work with wider technical teams and client stakeholders to maintain storage availability, capacity and performance, manage datasets,