Senior Mainframe Storage Architect - Resilient Systems

Battle Tested

Chandler (AZ)

On-site

USD 170,000 - 230,000

Full time

15 hours ago

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Job summary

Battle Tested is seeking a highly experienced Mainframe Storage Architect to design, modernize, and support a large-scale enterprise mainframe storage environment. This senior IC will drive technical direction across storage, infrastructure, and business teams to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable operations.

The role emphasizes architecture leadership, large-scale upgrades, SAN replication, capacity planning, and disaster recovery planning.

Qualifications

10+ years of experience in enterprise mainframe storage environments.
Significant experience designing and supporting mainframe storage architecture.
Strong experience with FICON and fiber-based storage connectivity.
Experience with HCD and IOCP configuration.
Experience analyzing mainframe I/O performance across disk, switches, and virtual tape.
Hands-on experience with major storage infrastructure upgrades and refreshes.
Experience with SAN replication.
Strong background in storage capacity planning.
Experience with storage encryption and data protection.
Experience planning and executing data center moves or migrations.
Experience supporting production and disaster recovery data centers.

Responsibilities

Design and maintain the overall architecture for enterprise mainframe storage.
Develop long-term storage strategies that support business growth and modernization.
Design solutions involving mainframe disk, SAN, switches, and virtual tape.
Evaluate storage technologies and architecture improvements.
Lead major storage upgrades, refreshes, migrations, and infrastructure changes.
Design and manage SAN replication across data centers.
Plan storage capacity across disk, switches, connectivity, and related infra.
Analyze storage performance to improve throughput, availability, and efficiency.
Support architecture involving FICON, fiber connectivity, HCD, and IOCP.
Design encryption and data protection strategies for mainframe storage.
Lead planning for data center migrations and infrastructure moves.
Support production-to-disaster-recovery swaps and DR exercises.
Review designs and recommend improvements on performance, resiliency, security, and maintainability.
Develop standards and best practices for the mainframe storage environment.