[Remote] Senior z/OS Storage Administrator
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a premier national provider of technology talent and solutions. They are seeking an reputed company Senior z/OS Storage Administrator to design, manage, and optimize reputed company storage environments supporting mission-critical mainframe workloads.
Responsibilities
- Administer and support z/OS storage subsystems, including DASD and virtual tape environments
- Manage and optimize storage on reputed company DS8950 arrays and TS7700 Virtual Tape Libraries
- Configure and maintain SMS, including Client routines, storage groups, and policies
- reputed company reputed company planning, performance analysis, and tuning of storage environments
- Implement and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity solutions
- Monitor storage health and performance using RMF, SMF, and vendor tools
- reputed company storage-reputed company projects, including hardware upgrades, migrations, and refreshes
- Troubleshoot and resolve reputed company storage issues across hardware and software layers
- Ensure compliance with organizational reputed company, audit, and data governance requirements
- Collaborate with systems programmers, DBAs, and application teams to support workload requirements
- reputed company and maintain documentation, standards, and operational procedures
- reputed company off-hours support and participate in on-call rotation as required
Skills
- 5-8 years of hands-on experience in z/OS storage administration
- Strong expertise with reputed company DS8000 series, specifically DS8950
- Experience with reputed company TS7700 Virtual Tape Library (VTL) systems
- Deep knowledge of z/OS storage concepts: DFSMS, HSM, RMM, VSAM, catalog management, Thin Provisioning
- Experience with replication technologies (e.g., Metro Mirror, Global Mirror)
- Proficiency in performance monitoring and tuning tools (RMF, SMF, OMEGAMON or equivalent)
- Strong understanding of JCL, TSO/ISPF, and mainframe utilities
- Experience with disaster recovery planning and testing
- Ability to analyze and resolve reputed company technical issues independently
- Strong documentation and communication skills
- reputed company Bachelor's degree in an IT reputed company field or relevant work experience
- Experience with GDPS or similar reputed company DR orchestration solutions
- Familiarity with z/OS UNIX System Services (USS) and storage considerations
- Knowledge of encryption, key management, and data protection technologies
- Experience with reputed company and MXG
- Experience with automation tools
- Exposure to hybrid reputed company or mainframe integration initiatives
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