Mainframe Storage Administrator
Core
Manage mission-critical mainframe storage systems, ensuring stability, availability, and performance for global enterprise clients.
Role type
Senior Mainframe Storage Administrator
Builds
Production mainframe storage environments (DASD, Tape, VTS controllers) for banking, retail, and other large-scale industries.
Domain
Mainframe computing (z/OS) and Storage Management
Required skills
Mainframe storage administration, DASD and tape configuration/migration, z/OS fundamentals, DFSMS suite (DFSMSHSM, DFSMSDSS, DFSMSDFP, DFSMSRMM), CA products (CA-1, CA Disk), storage monitoring tools, JCL, TSO, ISPF, VSAM, catalog management, spool management, REORG tasks, snapshot management, IPL support, storage audits.
Preferred skills
Storage box data migration, storage replication, multi-LPAR/CEC environment support, global on-call rotation.
Technologies
z/OS, DFSMS, CA-1, CA Disk, Omegamon XE, ICKDSF, SMF, JES2, ISMF, REXX, SAS, SDSF, VTS controllers.
Responsibilities
Troubleshoot and resolve CA-1 and z/OS storage issues, perform daily storage health checks and monitoring, execute storage reorganization (REORG) and snapshot change activities, support IPL and maintenance windows, investigate storage-related job abends, conduct storage audits, coordinate with Resiliency and Zcloud teams.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC