The Role

As Mainframe Storage Specialist, you are responsible to provide technical support with high degree of Customer Happiness by meeting Service Level Agreements (SLA) and process compliance. You will perform business impact analysis and risk assessments to reduce the likelihood of significant service outage or disasters. If you thrive in a dynamic, collaborative workplace, Kyndryl provides an environment where you will be challenged and inspired every single day. And if you relish the freedom to bring creative, thoughtful solutions to the table, there's no limit to what you can accomplish here.

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

Who You Are





You're good at what you do and possess the required experience to prove it. However, equally as important you have a growth mindset; keen to drive your own personal and professional development. You are customer-focused someone who prioritizes customer success in their work. And finally, you're open and borderless naturally inclusive in how you work with others.

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 Skilled 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).

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📌 Senior Mainframe Storage Administrator (Tamil Nadu)
🏢 Kyndryl
📍 Tamil Nadu