Senior IBM z/OS Storage Engineer — DR & Automation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Pension plan

Paid vacation

11 holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced storage infrastructure specialist to design, implement, administer and optimize IBM z/OS storage environments, including DS8000 and TS7700.

You will ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection across mainframe environments. You will develop automation, scripting, monitoring, and reporting tools, collaborate across engineering and operations, and contribute to capacity planning and performance tuning in large-scale systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• At least 7 years of experience within a total information technology (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

IBM z/OS Storage

Storage Infrastructure

Storage Replication

Disaster Recovery

Virtualization/Cloud

Data Lifecycle Management

GDPS

Automation/Scripting

Incident Management

Technical Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

DS8000

TS7700

DFSMS

SMS

DFHSM

GDPS

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced storage infrastructure specialist to design, implement, administer and optimize IBM z/OS storage environments, including DS8000 and TS7700.

You will ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection across mainframe environments. You will develop automation, scripting, monitoring, and reporting tools, collaborate across engineering and operations, and contribute to capacity planning and performance tuning in large-scale systems.