Mainframe Storage Administrator

Diverse Lynx; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Mainframe Storage Administrator for a remote position. The successful candidate will manage the service delivery for Mainframe OS/Storage, ensuring high availability and effective support during upgrades and incidents. The role demands over 10 years of technical experience and expertise in specific mainframe technologies and tools.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on technical experience as a Mainframe z/OS & Storage Admin.
• Experience with Hitachi VSP 5500, IBM DS8000, EMC-VMAX.
• Hands-on with z14/z15/z16 Mainframe HW and DR setup.

Responsibilities

• Manage BAU Service Delivery for Mainframe OS/Storage.
• Support Mainframe Projects (HW/OS Upgrades).
• Ensure Mainframe System Availability at 99.99%.

Skills

DASD tools monitoring

Storage performance management

Data migration management

Disaster recovery setup

Mainframe performance tuning

Tools

OMEGAMON

CA-1

IBM CSM

Job description

Role: Mainframe Storage Administrator
Location: Remote
Job type: Full time

Summary of key responsibilities
Manage BAU (Business As Usual) Service Delivery for Mainframe OS/Storage in a Technical Capacity
This is for a pure Technical Hands-On role and not for a Team Lead Position
Work on Daily Basis with Client/Customer Mainframe OS-Storage SMEs/Peers
Work on MI (Major Incidents) / P1 (Priority-1) and lesser Tickets as a part of BAU Support
Work on Problem/RCA and Change/CMR Tickets during the weekends.
Provide Business hours support and then On-Call support as is the norm in BAU Service Delivery Role.
Support Mainframe Projects (HW Upgrade, OS Upgrade, ISV Products upgrade etc...) as per needs.
Ensure Mainframe System Availability @ 99.99% and work towards meeting agreed SLAs

Years of Experience
L3 : 10+ Years of hands-on technical experience as a Mainframe z/OS & Mainframe Storage Admin

Primary requirements
• Experience to monitor, support and maintain mainframe DASD tools
• Monitor and manage storage performance
• Assign and initialize direct access storage volumes.
• Determine data set and volume placement
• Set and maintain direct access storage resource efficiency
• Maintain established direct access storage standards
• Suggest Best Practice standards
• Maintain space requirements according to Client’s forecasts
• Design, implement, and maintain all DASD pooling structures
• Perform catalog management
• Perform data migration management
• Provide support for all DASD related problems
• Perform regular direct-access storage backups
• Plan Hardware EOL Life Cycle management and Upgrades

Technical requirements
Hands-on experience with z14/z15/z16 Mainframe HW and Sysplex Setup
z/OS v2.x, JES2, DFSMS, VTAM, RACF/ACF2, TCP/IP, OMVS, RMF/SMF
SMP/E, various ISV products, UserMods and Exits.
IPL/POR procedures, various Mainframe Consoles
Mainframe Tools – OMEGAMON, TEPS, Netview, SIEM
Assembler, REXX, JCL and CA-OPS/MVS Automation,
IODF/IOCDS, HCD/HCM, Mainframe Capacity Planning and P erformance Tuning
PARMLIB and PROCLIB concatenation, Memory Regions customization and maintenance
Experience in Disaster Recovery setup and conducting DR drills.
Experience in Mainframe MIPS Optimization, Software rationalization
Hands-on experience with Hitachi VSP 5500, IBM DS8000, IBM TS7000, EMC-VMAX/PowerMax & DLm HW
IBM-Metro/Global Mirror, Copy Services, EMC-SRDF, EMC-GDDR
DFSMS suite, CA-1, IBM CSM
Flash Copy, BCV-SnapVX, zDP, Safe Guarded Copy (SGC)
Setup and Manager Mainframe DC Storage Replication
Perform all BAU and Project related Mainframe OS/Storage related activities.
Virtual Tape Library Management
Storage replication setup across sites, i.e. between Data Centers






Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.