Mainframe Storage Admin

Mainframe Storage Administrator

Summary of key responsibilities:

Manage BAU (Business As Usual) Service Delivery for Mainframe OS/Storage in a Technical Capacity. This is for a pure Technical Hands-On role and not for a Team Lead Position. Work on daily basis with client/customer Mainframe OS-Storage SMEs/Peers. Work on MI (Major Incidents) / P1 (Priority-1) and lesser tickets as a part of BAU Support. Work on Problem/RCA and Change/CMR tickets during the weekends. Provide business hours support and then on-call support as is the norm in BAU Service Delivery Role. Support Mainframe Projects (HW Upgrade, OS Upgrade, ISV Products upgrade etc…) as per needs. Ensure Mainframe System Availability @ 99.99% and work towards meeting agreed SLAs.

Years of Experience L3: 10+ Years of hands-on technical experience as a Mainframe z/OS & Mainframe Storage Admin

Primary requirements

• Experience to monitor, support and maintain mainframe DASD tools
• Monitor and manage storage performance
• Assign and initialize direct access storage volumes.
• Determine data set and volume placement
• Set and maintain direct access storage resource efficiency
• Maintain established direct access storage standards
• Suggest Best Practice standards
• Maintain space requirements according to Client’s forecasts
• Design, implement, and maintain all DASD pooling structures
• Perform catalog management
• Perform data migration management
• Provide support for all DASD related problems
• Perform regular direct-access storage backups
• Plan Hardware EOL Life Cycle management and Upgrades

Technical requirements

• Hands-on experience with z14/z15/z16 Mainframe HW and Sysplex Setup
• z/OS v2.x, JES2, DFSMS, VTAM, RACF/ACF2, TCP/IP, OMVS, RMF/SMF
• SMP/E, various ISV products, UserMods and Exits.
• IPL/POR procedures, various Mainframe Consoles
• Mainframe Tools – OMEGAMON, TEPS, Netview, SIEM
• Assembler, REXX, JCL and CA-OPS/MVS Automation,
• IODF/IOCDS, HCD/HCM, Mainframe Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning
• PARMLIB and PROCLIB concatenation, Memory Regions customization and maintenance
• Experience in Disaster Recovery setup and conducting DR drills.
• Experience in Mainframe MIPS Optimization, Software rationalization
• Hands-on experience with Hitachi VSP 5500, IBM DS8000, IBM TS7000, EMC-VMAX/PowerMax & DLm HW
• IBM-Metro/Global Mirror, Copy Services, EMC-SRDF, EMC-GDDR
• DFSMS suite, CA-1, IBM CSM
• Flash Copy, BCV-SnapVX, zDP, Safe Guarded Copy (SGC)
• Setup and Manager Mainframe DC Storage Replication
• Perform all BAU and Project related Mainframe OS/Storage related activities.
• Virtual Tape Library Management
• Storage replication setup across sites, i.e.