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Title of Position : Mainframe or z/OS Storage Admin Summary Of Key Responsibilities Manage BAU (Business As Usual) Service Delivery for Mainframe OS/Storage in a Technical Capacity This is for a pure Technical Hands-On role and not for a Team Lead Position Work on Daily Basis with Client/Customer Mainframe OS-Storage SMEs/Peers Work on MI (Major Incidents) / P1 (Priority-1) and lesser Tickets as a part of BAU Support Work on Problem/RCA and Change/CMR Tickets during the weekends. Provide Business hours support and then On-Call support as is the norm in BAU Service Delivery Role. Support Mainframe Projects (HW Upgrade, OS Upgrade, ISV Products upgrade etc…) as per needs. Ensure Mainframe System Availability @ 99.99% and work towards meeting agreed SLAs 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 Client’s 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, Safe 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 Show more Show less
