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, User Mods 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 / Power Max & DLm HW

IBM-Metro / Global Mirror, Copy Services, EMC-SRDF, EMC-GDDR

DFSMS suite, CA-1, IBM CSM

Flash Copy, BCV-Snap VX, z DP, 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 % and work towards meeting agreed SLAs

Minimum Qualification :

15 years of full-time education

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Regards

Nafisa Begum

HR-Talent Acquisition

Tata Consultancy Services