Mainframe Storage Architect - z/OS, DR & Automation

Usbank; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank seeks a storage-focused IT professional to design, implement, administer, and optimize IBM z/OS storage environments, including DS8000 DASD and TS7700 Virtual Tape. You will manage storage replication, DR/BC, and DFSMS technologies while ensuring high availability for enterprise workloads.

You will develop automation, monitoring, and reporting solutions, collaborate across teams, and contribute to capacity planning and data lifecycle management in large-scale mainframe environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• At least 7 years of experience within an IT environment.
• At least 7 years of experience with design, development and support of technology infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and optimize IBM z/OS storage environments, including IBM DS8000 DASD and IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape platforms.
• Manage storage replication, business continuity, and disaster recovery solutions, ensuring high availability and resiliency across critical mainframe environments.
• Administer DFSMS technologies, including SMS, DFHSM, ICF Catalogs, storage groups, and policy-based data management.
• Perform capacity planning, utilization forecasting, growth analysis, and storage performance optimization to support enterprise workloads.
• Support GDPS-enabled recovery environments through testing, validation, failover exercises, and resiliency planning.
• Implement and maintain backup, recovery, cyber resiliency, Safeguarded Copy, and data protection solutions to meet operational and regulatory requirements.
• Develop automation, scripting, monitoring, and reporting solutions that improve operational efficiency, service reliability, and risk management.
• Collaborate with engineering, application, infrastructure, operations, and vendor teams to troubleshoot complex storage issues, support modernization initiatives, and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

z/OS storage

Storage replication

Disaster recovery

Automation scripting

Capacity planning

Cloud/Hybrid infra

Incident management

Technical documentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

IBM z/OS Storage Infrastructure

Enterprise Storage Arrays

GDPS

SMS/DFHSM/ICF Catalogs

Job description

U.S. Bank seeks a storage-focused IT professional to design, implement, administer, and optimize IBM z/OS storage environments, including DS8000 DASD and TS7700 Virtual Tape. You will manage storage replication, DR/BC, and DFSMS technologies while ensuring high availability for enterprise workloads.

You will develop automation, monitoring, and reporting solutions, collaborate across teams, and contribute to capacity planning and data lifecycle management in large-scale mainframe environments.