Role & responsibilities

Primary requirements
Experience to monitor, support and maintain mainframe DASD tools
Monitor and manage storage performance
Assign and initialize direct access storage volumes.
Determine data set and volume placement
Set and maintain direct access storage resource efficiency
Maintain established direct access storage standards
Suggest Best Practice standards
Maintain space requirements according to Clients forecasts
Design, implement, and maintain all DASD pooling structures
Perform catalog management
Perform data migration management
Provide support for all DASD related problems
Perform regular direct-access storage backups
Plan Hardware EOL Life Cycle management and Upgrades

Technical requirements
Hands-on experience with z14/z15/z16 Mainframe HW and Sysplex Setup
z/OS v2.x, JES2, DFSMS, VTAM, RACF/ACF2, TCP/IP, OMVS, RMF/SMF
SMP/E, various ISV products, UserMods and Exits.
IPL/POR procedures, various Mainframe Consoles
Mainframe Tools OMEGAMON, TEPS,



Netview, SIEM
Assembler, REXX, JCL and CA-OPS/MVS Automation,
IODF/IOCDS, HCD/HCM, Mainframe Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning
PARMLIB and PROCLIB concatenation, Memory Regions customization and maintenance
Experience in Disaster Recovery setup and conducting DR drills.
Experience in Mainframe MIPS Optimization, Software rationalization
Hands-on experience with Hitachi VSP 5500, IBM DS8000, IBM TS7000, EMC-VMAX/PowerMax & DLm HW
IBM-Metro/Global Mirror, Copy Services, EMC-SRDF, EMC-GDDR
DFSMS suite, CA-1, IBM CSM
Flash Copy, BCV-SnapVX, zDP, Secure Guarded Copy (SGC)
Setup and Manager Mainframe DC Storage Replication
Perform all BAU and Project related Mainframe OS/Storage related activities.
Virtual Tape Library Management
Storage replication setup across sites, i.e. between Data Centers

📌 Mainframe Storage Administrator Chennai (India)
🏢 Tata Consultancy Services
📍 India