Senior IBM z/OS Storage Systems Engineer

U.S. Bank; Earth City (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Parental leave

401(k)

Paid vacation

11 paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is hiring for a role focused on IBM z/OS storage infrastructure design, administration, and optimization. The candidate will manage DS8000/TS7700 platforms, ensure DR readiness, and administer DFSMS components to support large-scale mainframe workloads.

The role emphasizes capacity planning, performance tuning, and collaboration with multiple teams to drive resiliency and automation across enterprise storage environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of experience within a total information technology (IT) environment.
• 7+ years of experience with the 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

Automation

Replication/DR

Cloud/Virtualization

DFSMS/DFHSM

Backup/Resilience

Scripting

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

IBM DS8000

TS7700

DFSMS

GDPS

Automation Scripting

Job description

U.S. Bank is hiring for a role focused on IBM z/OS storage infrastructure design, administration, and optimization. The candidate will manage DS8000/TS7700 platforms, ensure DR readiness, and administer DFSMS components to support large-scale mainframe workloads.

The role emphasizes capacity planning, performance tuning, and collaboration with multiple teams to drive resiliency and automation across enterprise storage environments.