Support Hours: 7am - 3pm Eastern Time + Oncall/Weekend Support (As required)
Nature of Work: Individual Contributor who can work on transformational tasks and advisor to operations team on critical issues & continuous improvement of Storage Environment
Technical Skills: - Review, approve and coordinate Storage related changes.
- Ensure that procedures are properly documented and followed.
- Provide expertise analysis and recommendations.
- Drive initiatives and assist with new implementations.
- Report on on-going issues and ensure that they are prioritized correctly.
- Escalate problems when needed.
- Ensure the team members are trained and conduct training session as needed.
- Ensure that emergency procedures such as catalog forward recovery, alternate master catalog and HSM CDS recovery are tested at regular basis and known by all team members.
- Investigate and compare new technologies, such as cloud storage, and make recommendations. Act as an advisor to management on technological direction.
- Understand TS7700, DS8900 architecture and features. Provide review and recommendation about new features and capabilities. Report what should be implement or not.
- Prepare and submit storage related I/O gen request to the Hardware team, review I/O gen report for accuracy.
- Lead storage (tape and DASD) tech refresh projects, including plan (design and preparation) to move to new devices with minimum disruption to the business, back out procedure, and execution coordination.
- Responsible for critical problem solving, process and procedure development for Mainframe Storage related changes.
- Researching new technologies and providing recommendations for Ford to evaluate
- Being on top of industry/segment trends. Development and Recommending Storage Management Strategies
- Supporting Cloud Migrations
- Mainframe application modernization efforts
- Planning/Implement Storage tool conversions, as required
- Leading/implementing Proof of Concepts (POCs), as required
- Focal point for system audits and process improvements.