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Position : Mainframe and Data Center Storage Administrator
Location: 100% Remote work
Duration : Full Time
Provide customer support
Provide assistance to customers on:
o Storage provisioning, backup, and recovery needs,
o z/OS DASD and tape volumes requirements,
o access methods,
o use of IBM's Job Control Language (JCL), IBM's dataset utilities, IBM's Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF), and IBM's Access Method Services (IDCAMS) tools to manage datasets,
o primary and secondary allocations for both basic and extended-format data sets,
o dataset retention based upon the management class policies established in SMS,
o catalog services for submitted change requests using the IBM IDCAMS and Rocket Software TREX tools.
Implement infrastructure and process design
Analyze the operating posture of the existing storage hardware and software. Plan, design, test, and deploy enhancements, new infrastructure, and technical processes to meet expanding workloads, exploit new technologies, improve operational functionality and efficiency, and protect the integrity and resilience of the customer's data. Specific tasks include:
a. Commission and decommission storage subsystems as required.
b. Construct data replication topologies to move data between storage subsystems, data centers and the e-vault.
c. Install/enhance/configure software, construct backup and recovery processes to protect data from accidental or deliberate corruption or erasure.
The administrator shall design the following:
a. Virtualized provisioning pools/processes and automated tiering policies.
b. SMS pools, constructs, ACS code, HSM parameter library members, etc.
c. Automation scripts to report/alert, analyze, and manage storage.
d. Test storage infrastructure and migrate data to new z/OS Logical Partitions (LPARS) and Sysplexes.
e. Storage performance processes that report/alert on issues.
f. Build processes and utilize models that plan for future capacity and performance needs.
g. Upgrading and configuring storage hardware and software such as DASD and tape subsystems, command/control servers and software, storage communication gateways, storage resource management and performance management software, mainframe storage started tasks, and backup/recovery software.
h. Assist with the development of new storage architectures, including long-term transformational plans.
a. Design, implement, test, and deploy physical and virtual tape storage infrastructure and processes including onboard intelligence for encryption, data-deduplication, compression, etc.
j. Designing, building, and testing electronic vaulting infrastructures and processes.
k. Design and implement improved backup and recovery methodologies for virtual tape systems.
Work with customer teams and 3rd party vendors to devise storage infrastructure and practices to meet future application and database requirements.
Design and engineer detailed testing configurations and proofs of concepts for new technologies that support customer storage needs.
Develop best practice project plans, engineering scripts, laboratory test models, and documentation to manage existing and new storage infrastructures.
Research and develop back-up and recovery approaches
Research and develop recovery approaches for potential failure scenarios that meet the customer Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) objectives.
Analyze the root cause of backup and data replication failures/exposures. Design practices and deploy technologies to eliminate data loss exposure. Design, build, test, and deploy automation mechanisms that minimize RPO and RTO.
Work with customer teams and 3rd party vendors to devise business resilience infrastructure and practices to meet application and database requirements.
Design and engineer detailed plans and scripts for disaster recovery exercises, disaster recovery events, and moving Sysplexes between data centers.
Transfer skills to other storage administrators.
Execute the procedures in disaster recovery exercises.
Analyze issues and resolve them via technology and/or process enhancements.
Design, document, and train storage administrators in data restoration processes
Qualifications
Required:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Information Systems/ Engineering or related field. Advanced degree/ relevant professional certification preferred.
8 years' experience.
Pagers and Laptops
o The contractors will be required to carry a pager and/or a cell phone at all times. In addition, they will be required to carry a second, rotating device once a month.
Travel
o Travel may be required for this task. The government estimates the average travel per year is 6 times per year for reviewing other site storage management. Travel will be local in nature: i.e., Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia.
Occasional scheduled weekend and extra hours may be required to support storage activities.
Experience with Z/OS.
Experience the following hardware and software:
o Dell EMC, VMAX3, VMAX 950FX, PowerMax DASD subsystems
o Dell EMC DLM8100 and DLM8500 Disk Libraries (Virtual tape) for Mainframe used with DD9800 Data Domain and VNX 7600 for Mainframe
o Oracle VSM-6, VSM-7 and VLE Virtual Tape Libraries
o Microsoft Office (Word, Power Point, Excel), Outlook, Project, Visio
o IBM z/OS 2.4 Storage Management System (SMS) and Interactive Storage Management Facility (ISMF)
o IBM z/OS 2.4 Hierarchical Storage Manager (HSM) and Aggregate Backup Recovery Software (ABARS)
o IBM z/OS 2.4 Job Control Language (JCL)
o IBM z/OS 2.4 Time Sharing Option (TSO) Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
o IBM z/OS 2.4 Device Support (ICHDSF), Dataset Utilities and Access Method Services (IDCAMS)
o BMC Mainview Storage Resource Manager (SRM), StopX37, and Automated Operator.
o BMC Control-M Batch Job Manager
o Dell EMC Unisphere
o Dell EMC Mainframe Enabler, Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), Geographically Dispersed Disaster Restart (GDDR), and TimeFinder
o Computer Associates Vantage
o CA-1 Tape Management System (TMS)
o CA Vantage Storage Report Monitor (SRM)
o Dell EMC Virtuent DLm control software
o Oracle / STK Enterprise Library Software (ELS)
o Oracle ASR
o Oracle StorageTek Library Console (SLC)
o Oracle Virtual Operator Panel (VOP)
o Library Content Manager (LCM) for SL8500 and VSM
o Dell EMC DLm utilities
o Dell EMC Secure Remote Services (ESRS)
o Dino Software T-Rex Catalog Management
o Rocket Software Backup Recover Manager (BRM)
o IBM DB2 Image Copies
o IBM z/OS 2.4 Data Facility Dataset Services (DFDSS)
o Innovation Fast Dump Restore (FDR)
o Innovation FDRPAS Data Migration Tool
o Rocket Software Data Backup Supervisor (DBS)
o Chicago-Corp Quikref
Experience the following physical media storage:
o Enterprise Flash Drives (EFD)
o Enterprise Fibre Channel Drives
o Enterprise high-density SAS Drives
o Enterprise high-density SATA Drives
Experience the following acces
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