Senior IBM z/OS Storage Architect & DR Specialist

U.S. Bank; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced IBM z/OS Storage Engineer to design, implement, and optimize large-scale storage environments. You will manage replication, DR strategies, and DFSMS tooling while driving automation and proactive monitoring.

The role requires strong capacity planning, performance tuning, and collaboration with engineering, operations, and vendor teams to support modernization and resiliency initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent IT experience.
• 7+ years in an IT environment.
• 7+ years in design, development, and support of technology infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and optimize IBM z/OS storage environments.
• Manage storage replication, business continuity, and disaster recovery.
• Administer DFSMS technologies (SMS, DFHSM, ICF Catalogs, storage groups, lifecycle management).
• Perform capacity planning, utilization forecasting, growth analysis, and performance optimization.
• Support GDPS-enabled recovery environments with testing, failover exercises.
• Implement backup, recovery, cyber resiliency, Safeguarded Copy, and data protection.
• Develop automation, scripting, monitoring, and reporting to improve operations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot storage issues and modernization.

Skills

IBM z/OS Storage

Storage Infrastructure

Storage Replication

Disaster Recovery

DFSMS

Cloud/Hybrid

GDPS

Backup & Data Protection

Automation & Scripting

Incident & Production Support

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

IBM DS8000

TS7700

DFSMS

Backup & DR tooling

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced IBM z/OS Storage Engineer to design, implement, and optimize large-scale storage environments. You will manage replication, DR strategies, and DFSMS tooling while driving automation and proactive monitoring.

The role requires strong capacity planning, performance tuning, and collaboration with engineering, operations, and vendor teams to support modernization and resiliency initiatives.