Job highlights

- Hands-on experience with z14/z15/z16 Mainframe HW, Sysplex Setup, and Hitachi VSP 5500, IBM DS8000 storage systems

- Monitor, support, and maintain mainframe DASD tools; manage storage performance and replication; perform data migration, backups, and disaster recovery drills

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, Protected 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)
🏢 Tata Consultancy Services
📍 Chennai