Mainframe Storage Engineer

Herndon, Virginia

Sky Solutions LLC
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Job Title: Mainframe Storage Engineer
Duration: Long term
Location: Lakewood, CO (Onsite 5 days a week)

Note:
Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site all 5 days a week.
Position is open to any candidate within 50-mile radius from the eVault Data Centers (Lakewood, CO - outside of Denver proper)

Key Required Skills:
z/OS, Time Sharing Option, Data Domain, Dell EMC DLm8500 systems, ISPF, InsightIQ, technical writing and Ansible playbooks.

Position Description:
  • Lead efforts in developing new strategies for operational efficiencies
  • Work with applications teams and stakeholders as the platform technical lead
  • Work with highly experienced and technical resources
  • Assist technical leads in implementing systems and software updates
  • Document processes, procedures and configurations
  • Perform daily operations support functions, including problem isolation and resolution
  • Provide status updates of task and project updates
  • Provide system administration support
  • Troubleshoot platform and application issues
  • All other duties as assigned or directed
Basic Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field
  • 7 years of experience or more as a Mainframe Storage Engineer.
  • 7 years of experience with problem monitoring and engineering problem resolutions on virtual tape architectures.
  • 5 years of experience with Dell/EMC, VSM, VLE and ZFS Virtual tape Libraries.
  • 5 years of experience with IBM Job Control Language (JCL).
  • 4 years of experience with CA-1 Tape Management System (TMS) and CA Vantage.
  • 4 years of experience supporting Disaster Recovery planning, testing, monitoring and restoration for virtual tape storage systems
  • 3 years of experience designing and building Storage Management System (SMS).
  • 2 years of experience using Data Domain Management Center (DDMC)
  • 2 years of experience using Time Sharing Option (TSO) on mainframe systems
  • 2 years of experience with Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF).
  • Expertise in the Linux command-line environment
Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site in Lakewood, CO 5 days a week.

Required Skills:
  • Knowledge of z/OS.
  • Experience using Time Sharing Option (TSO).
  • Experience with Data Domain.
  • Experience with Dell EMC DLm8500 systems.
  • Experience with ISPF.
  • Experience with InsightIQ
  • Ability to produce operational documentation using industry best practices in technical writing.
  • Ability to gather process requirements to automate into Ansible playbooks
Desired Skills:
  • Demonstrated experience growing, maintaining, problem monitoring and engineer problem resolutions on virtual tape architectures.
  • Experience with Cyber Recovery on virtual tape systems
  • Demonstrated experience designing, installing, configuring, provisioning, and deploying storage hardware used in a multi-node storage architecture.
  • Experience developing best practice project plans, engineering scripts, and documentation needed to migrate workloads to virtual tape.
  • Prior Federal government experience
  • Self-starter, highly motivated individual who adapts and isn't afraid to volunteer in a dynamic work environment
  • Strong attention to detail with an ability to operate effectively across multiple priorities
Education:
  • Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.
Date Posted: 13 April 2025
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