Hello ,
I hope you are doing well.
We are constantly on the lookout for professionals to fulfil the staffing needs of our clients, and we currently have a job opening that may interest you.
Role: Mainframe Storage Administrator
Duration: Long-time Contract
Location: Chicago, IL
Job Description:
- Manage system performance, reliability and availability to service level agreements.
- Ensure that hardware and application security and controls meet or exceed guidelines
- Develop, manage and maintain a comprehensive disaster recovery plan for all managed systems
- Design rollouts of system enhancements and upgrades
- Create standards for supported systems
- Automate processes using VMWare Automation tools
- Create documentation and SOP's
- Provide Operations Support
- Interaction with Service Center, Network Control Center and other business support areas for problem escalations, resolutions, reporting and coordination
Must have following qualifications to succeed in this role:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline preferred.
- 8-12 years of relevant work experience.
- Hands on experience in a GDPS, Global Mirror, Metro Mirror, HiperSwap environment.
- Thorough knowledge and expertise with HCD in a large scale enterprise environment with numerous CECs across multiple locations
- Knowledge of Brocade SAN equipment and associated management tools (Brocade Network Advisor)
- Experience installing and configuring IBM Mainframes, Virtual Tape systems, and DS8000 DASD.
- Knowledge of dataset structures. (PDS, PDSE, GDG, VSAM, etc.)
- Experience Administering DFSMS policies and constructs
- Knowledge and experience with IBM Flashcopy process
- Knowledge of FDR/ABR and DFDSS
- Experience with CA1 Tape Management Software
- Experience with TDMF
- Coding Languages: Assembler, Automation, GDPS, Rexx and CLIST skills
- Proficiency in Security software tools: RACF and ACF2 and performance monitoring using Omegamon, RMF, SMF and SAS