Mainframe Storage Admin

JD Title : Mainframe Storage Administrator – L3 – 6+ years of experience

Experience : 6-9 Years

Location : Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai

Job Description

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

Years of Experience

L3 : 10+ Years of hands-on technical experience as a Mainframe z / OS & Mainframe Storage Admin

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