Ibm Z/Os Storage Administrator

Position: z/OS Storage Administrator

Salary: $130,000 - $175,000 DOE + great benefits

100% REMOTE

Direct Hire -not able to accommodate C2C candidates at this time.

Well established IT firm is seeking an experienced z/OS Storage Admin to support their largest enterprise client. You will work remote and will install, customize, upgrade, maintain, and tune up a massive Mainframe storage environment, running on Mainframe z/OS platform. You will also be working on highly available disaster recovery solutions like GDPS or CSM.

Responsibilities

• Provide administration and technical support of z/OS DASD and tape storage environment, including problem analysis and resolution.
• Monitor, support, maintain, and enhance associated storage, backups, and data replication for customer Sysplexes.
• Create, support, enhance, and review weekly and monthly storage capacity reports to ensure availability and performance objectives and make proactive recommendations for capacity upgrades.
• Assist with system solution design including concept presentations and investment proposals.
• Perform application-facing duties for all storage-related activities enterprise-wide (e.g. change notification, test coordination, user education, single point of contact for associates with storage issues, etc.)
• Provide on-call support and respond within the agreed SLA. Satisfy any on-site support requirements as required.
• Installing, customizing, maintenance and migration to new levels of OEM and ISV Software Products.
• Consulting with the customer on configuration changes and new features of software and hardware.
• Support High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Isolation Testing exercises.

Qualifications

• Has 10+ years of progressive experience in z/OS storage technical support.
• Expert knowledge and use of DFSMS, SMPE, Storage tools, JCL, System maintenance and patching.
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills.
• Works unsupervised and independently seek out and interact with colleagues and outside vendors.
• Shuffles priorities in response to a changing workload.
• Keeps up with changing technology.

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