Senior Mainframe Storage Engineer – Remote

Ensono; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Paid Days Off

401k with company match

Dental, Vision, Disability, Life, and

Fertility coverage and adoption/surrog

Paid parental leave

Education Reimbursement

Sabbatical leave

Wellness program

Flexible work schedule

Job summary

Ensono, a prominent storage-focused employer in the United States, seeks a Senior Mainframe Systems Programmer to manage storage infrastructure including DASD, tape, and DR capabilities. The role emphasizes strong expertise in IBM storage software, disaster recovery planning, and complex data migrations.

The candidate will lead storage operations, participate in migrations, DR tests, and vendor interactions, while mentoring team members.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree.
• Strong analytical, problem resolution and root cause analysis skills.
• Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently.
• Ability to analyze performance on DASD and tape subsystems.
• Extensive skills with IBM storage software including IBM Copy Services Manager/Global Mirroring, SMS, HSM, IDCAMS, and DFDSS.
• Experience in preparing and implementing Disaster Recovery plans
• Expert knowledge of catalog structures, LPAR sysplexes, and resource sharing.
• Extensive knowledge of DASD hardware configurations incorporating replication.
• Extensive skills with IBM and Oracle/STK tape hardware and software.
• Extensive skills with CA-1, MIMTape.
• Functional skills with Dell/EMC.
• Functional skills with RMM, TLMS, GRS, Tapecopy, and SMF.
• Knowledge of GDPR General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR)

Responsibilities

• Provide DASD and tape storage administration support for our customers.
• Manage storage pools for multiple customers and LPARs.
• Perform problem diagnostics and resolution.
• Create and oversee jobs for daily, weekly, and monthly backups.
• Participate in Data Center migration projects using multiple methodologies.
• Perform data and volume recovery.
• Perform data migrations between storage frames for existing customers.
• Participate in Disaster Recovery Tests.
• Interact with account management and with our customers.
• Interact with hardware and software vendors as required.
• Mentor and train Storage team members.

Skills

DASD storage

Tape storage

IBM storage software

Copy Services Manager

Global Mirroring

SMS

HSM

IDCAMS

DFDSS

Disaster recovery planning

Data center migrations

Root cause analysis

Catalog structures/LPAR

DASD replication

MIMTape

CA-1

TLMS

GRS

Tapecopy

SMF

GDPR knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CA-1

MIMTape

Tapecopy

TLMS

GRS

SMF

Dell/EMC

IDCAMS

Job description

Ensono, a prominent storage-focused employer in the United States, seeks a Senior Mainframe Systems Programmer to manage storage infrastructure including DASD, tape, and DR capabilities. The role emphasizes strong expertise in IBM storage software, disaster recovery planning, and complex data migrations.

The candidate will lead storage operations, participate in migrations, DR tests, and vendor interactions, while mentoring team members.