Job Summary

As a System Administrator at Kyndryl, you ll solve complex problems and identify potential future issues across the spectrum of platforms and services. You ll be at the forefront of new technology and modernization, working with some of our biggest clients-which means some of the biggest in the world.

Responsibilities

- Participate in daily operational and project-related calls.
- Troubleshoot and resolve CA-1 related issues, including support for CA-1 upgrade activities.
- Address and remediate STOPX37 issues related to recent z/OS 8.1 maintenance updates.
- Perform daily storage health checks to ensure system stability and availability.
- Monitor critical spool space utilization and take proactive actions when required.
- Conduct catalog monitoring and resolve catalog-related issues.
- Monitor HSM activities, perform reorganization (REORG) tasks, and resolve associated issues.
- Handle snapshot change activities and ensure successful implementation.
- Provide storage support during IPL activities and system maintenance windows.
- Investigate and resolve storage-related job abends.
- Validate and review storage reports to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Perform regular storage audits and maintain operational standards.
- Follow up with the Resiliency team on hardware-related circuit issues, including CHPID-related concerns.
- Coordinate with the Zcloud team and support reverse replication activities.
- Implement and maintain ACS routine changes to support storage management requirements.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise





- 10+ 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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📌 Mainframe Storage Administrator (Bengaluru)
🏢 Kyndryl
📍 Bengaluru