Senior z/OS Storage Engineer – DR & Automation

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

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Storage Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and optimize IBM z/OS storage environments across enterprise systems.

You will lead capacity planning, disaster recovery, and automation initiatives, partnering with engineering, operations, and vendor teams to ensure high availability and data protection for critical workloads. This role requires hands-on mainframe storage expertise and strong collaboration skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years in a total IT environment.
• 7+ years in design, development and support of technology infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and optimize IBM z/OS storage environments.
• Manage storage replication, business continuity, and disaster recovery solutions for mainframe environments.
• Administer DFSMS technologies (SMS, DFHSM, ICF Catalogs, storage groups, 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 and maintain backup, recovery, cyber resiliency, Safeguarded Copy, and data protection solutions.
• 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 storage issues and drive improvements.

Skills

IBM z/OS storage

Enterprise storage arrays

Storage replication

Disaster recovery

DFSMS

GDPS

Backup & cyber resiliency

Automation & scripting

Documentation & collaboration

Cloud/ virtualization

Capacity planning

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

IBM DS8000

TS7700

DFSMS tooling

Safeguarded Copy

GDPS tooling

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Storage Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and optimize IBM z/OS storage environments across enterprise systems.

You will lead capacity planning, disaster recovery, and automation initiatives, partnering with engineering, operations, and vendor teams to ensure high availability and data protection for critical workloads. This role requires hands-on mainframe storage expertise and strong collaboration skills.