Lead Mainframe Storage Engineer

About the role

This is a Lead Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering position at Vice President Level, which is part of the job family responsible for managing and optimizing technical infrastructure and ensuring the seamless operation of IT systems to support business needs effectively.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Management: Configure and maintain hardware including IBM DS8000 series DASD, TS7700 Virtual Tape Servers (VTS), that requires experience with the TS7700 MI and DS8K HMCs
• Data & Space Management: Utilize the DFSMS suite of products to design SMS configurations, manage data class, storage class, and management class rules
• Backup & Disaster Recovery: Oversee data replication, disaster recovery planning, and routine backups, leveraging tools like DFHSM and DFDSS
• Capacity Planning: Monitor storage utilization, forecast future space requirements, and plan infrastructure upgrades to prevent storage shortages
• Automation & Scripting: Write and maintain automation scripts using REXX to streamline routine storage operations and alerts
• Incident Response: Troubleshoot storage-related outages, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and resolve dataset access issues

Requirements

• Operating Systems: Deep knowledge of the IBM z/OS environment
• Software & Utilities: Proficiency with system utilities (ICKDSF, IDCAMS, IEBCOPY), and tape management systems (TLMS, RMM)
• Connectivity: Understanding of FICON connectivity and z/OS access methods (VSAM, QSAM)
• Analytical Thinking: Strong problem-solving abilities to execute complex storage migrations with minimal impact to production workloads

Qualifications

• Must have Skills: Replication and PPRC protocols. Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, Global Copy
• Cyber - Safe Guarded Copy Experience with Copy Services Manager, ESSNI etc.
• Resiliency - Hyperswap & Hyperwrite
• Performance - Hyperlinks

Skills

• Python or Perl Scripting
• GDPSSecure Vault (Cyber) - Physical and Virtual isolation
• Cloud Storage for tape archival

Benefits

Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 20 Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees.

Pay

For Cleveland, Ohio: Base pay rates between $110,000 and $165,000 per year

For Illinois: Base pay rates between $135,000 and $195,000 per year

For Maine: Base pay rates between $125,000 and $175,000 per year

For Maryland: Base pay rates between $140,000 and $195,000 per year

For Massachusetts: Base pay rates between $135,000 and $195,000 per year

For Minnesota: Base pay rates between $125,000 and $175,000 per year

For Vermont: Base pay rates between $125,000 and $175,000 per year

For Virginia: Base pay rates between $135,000 and $195,000 per year

For Washington: Base pay rates between $155,000 and $215,000 per year

Schedule

Full-time