Mainframe Storage Administrator - TCS USA

Job Title

Mainframe or z/OS Storage Admin

Relevant Experience(in yrs)

5+

Work Location (State, City and Zip)

Hartford, Connecticut

Technical/Functional Skills

· Experience to monitor, support and maintain mainframe DASD tools

· Hands-on experience with z13/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 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. between Data Centers

Roles & 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