Senior Mainframe Storage Engineer - z/OS DR

Us Bank; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement plan

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a senior storage specialist to design, implement, and optimize IBM z/OS storage environments across mainframe platforms. You will manage DS8000 DASD and TS7700 Virtual Tape to support enterprise workloads.

Lead capacity planning, performance tuning, and DR readiness with GDPS. Collaborate with engineering, applications, and vendor teams to implement automation, protection, and data lifecycle strategies—onsite in Saint Paul, MN.

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 with high availability.
• 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.
• Support GDPS-enabled recovery environments through testing, validation, failover exercises, and resiliency planning.
• Implement backup, recovery, cyber resiliency, Safeguarded Copy, and data protection solutions.
• Develop automation, scripting, monitoring, and reporting solutions to improve efficiency and risk management.
• Collaborate with engineering, application, infrastructure, operations, and vendor teams to troubleshoot storage issues and drive modernization.

Skills

IBM z/OS Storage

Storage Replication

Disaster Recovery

DFSMS (SMS/DFHSM/ICF Catalogs)

GDPS

Automation & Scripting

Capacity Planning

Troubleshooting & Incident Management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

IBM DS8000 DASD

TS7700 Virtual Tape

SMS

DFSMS

DFHSM

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a senior storage specialist to design, implement, and optimize IBM z/OS storage environments across mainframe platforms. You will manage DS8000 DASD and TS7700 Virtual Tape to support enterprise workloads.

Lead capacity planning, performance tuning, and DR readiness with GDPS. Collaborate with engineering, applications, and vendor teams to implement automation, protection, and data lifecycle strategies—onsite in Saint Paul, MN.