Senior Mainframe Storage Administrator

Experience : 9 Yrs

• Band: 8 ( Offered Salary Max 40-45 Lpa)

• Location:

  Chennai Tamil Nadu India

  Hyderabad Telangana India

  Bangalore Karnataka India

  All Cities - India

• Responsibilities

• Adopt the given technology to meet the drift of customer and business requirements

• Storage box data migration (DASD to DASD and Tape to tape) and Storage replication

• Analyze and research options for collaborates with exiting external systems

• Root Cause Analysis preparation and meeting Service level agreement for submission

• Develop document and maintain procedures for system utilities such as backup/restore performance tuning and configuration of environments as well as incremental backups as required

• Initialize / add new DASD volumes and Add new tape volumes. Perform the space management activities such as VTOC resizing Defrag Compress/Reclaim/Release/Cleaning of datasets

• Manage and Define SMS rules and ACS routines along with reorganization of storage dataset (RMM/HSM CDS & Catalog file)

• Disaster recovery planning and performing the recovery test (Tape recovery / DASD Replication / Tape Replication) and Managing the Copy services / GDPS

• Problem determination and resolution within expected time frame

• Assume personal responsibility for resolving problems in most effective way possible within SLA reaching root cause and preventing problems

• Lead daily Operations meetings provided there are no P1 incidents running

• Aid with identifying problem management trends

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 9 Years of Experience in Mainframe Storage Administration.

• Experience with DASD and tape data storage solutions (Experience on DASD/Tape Configuration and Migration) for mainframes.

• Candidate should possess working knowledge of Z/OS Operating System z/OS(MVS) fundamentals Storage fundamentals and Storage Devices.

• Candidate will be expected to have good knowledge in the following areas: TSO ISPF JCL VSAM ISMF JES2 Catalogs Datasets (PS/PDS/PDSE/GDG) REXX SAS SDSF and Spool.

• Candidate will be expected to have good knowledge & Experience in the following (: MF - Tape & DASD Management) areas: DFSMS DFSMSHSM DFSMSDSS DFSMSDFP DFSMSRMM ICF Catalog VSAM IDCAMs CA products (CA Disk CA allocate and CA-1) FDR products Omegamon XE or related Storage monitoring tools ICKDSF Space abends and SMF/Dcollect/BVIR reports.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.

• Provides technical support activities for a production mainframe environment of multiple LPARs CECs DASD and VTS controllers.

• Experience in Storage box data migration (DASD to DASD and Tape to tape) and Storage replication.

• Candidates have to work in customer work hours- US Europe and Asia Pacific (weekends and holidays as on call staff).

Required Skills:

Mainframe Storage Administration DASD data storage solutions Tape data storage solutions DASD Configuration Tape Configuration DASD Migration Tape Migration Z/OS Operating System z/OS(MVS) fundamentals Storage fundamentals Storage Devices TSO ISPF JCL VSAM ISMF JES2 Catalogs Datasets (PS PDS PDSE GDG) REXX SAS SDSF Spool DFSMS DFSMSHSM DFSMSDSS DFSMSDFP DFSMSRMM ICF Catalog IDCAMs CA Disk CA allocate CA-1 FDR products Omegamon XE Storage monitoring tools ICKDSF Space abends SMF reports Dcollect reports BVIR reports Storage box data migration Storage replication