Mainframe Storage Admin

Section

Details

Job Title

Mainframe Storage Admin

Job Type

Full Time

Client Location

Remote

Work Arrangement

Remote

Duration

Full Time

Pay Rate / Salary

$100-$110k/yr.

Job Summary

• The Mainframe Storage Administrator is responsible for managing, maintaining, monitoring, and optimizing enterprise mainframe storage environments to ensure high availability, performance, capacity, and data integrity.
• The role involves administering storage systems, managing DASD and tape storage, performing storage allocation and capacity planning, troubleshooting storage-related issues, and supporting disaster recovery and business continuity initiatives.
• The administrator works closely with mainframe system programmers, database administrators, application teams, and infrastructure teams to maintain reliable and secure storage operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain mainframe storage environments, including DASD, disk subsystems, and tape storage systems.
• Manage storage devices, volumes, storage pools, and datasets in IBM z/OS environments.
• Configure, allocate, extend, and deallocate storage resources based on application and business requirements.
• Support enterprise storage technologies such as IBM DS8000, IBM TS7700, and related storage platforms.

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Hitachi VSP 5000, IBM TS7780,
• Hitachi HUR
• DFSMS suite, CA-1
• FDR/ABR
• SMP/E in depth knowledge to do install work on ISV products
• Setup and Manage Mainframe DC Storage Replication
• IODF/IOCDS, HCD/HCM, Mainframe Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning
• PARMLIB and PROCLIB concatenation and maintenance
• Experience in Disaster Recovery setup and conducting DR drills.
• Provide 24/7 operational support for Mainframe storage systems and associated utilities.
• Perform Mainframe storage system recovery activities to ensure high availability and resilience.
• Provide technical guidance and advice to application development teams on need basis
• On-Call support for any mainframe storage related issues troubleshooting