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 positive knowledge in the following areas: TSO, ISPF, JCL, VSAM, ISMF, JES2, Catalogs, Datasets (PS/PDS/PDSE/GDG), REXX, SAS, S