Mainframe Storage Admin

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Experience Range : 7 – 12 Yrs

Location - Pan India

What we are looking for

Must Have

• 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)
• 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

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

Minimum Qualification :

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Regards

Nafisa Begum

HR-Talent Acquisition

Tata Consultancy Services