Lead Mainframe Storage Engineer

About the role

This is a Lead Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering position at Vice President Level within the Technology division of Morgan Stanley. The role 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), requiring 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).
• Tivoli Advance catalog management (catalog management tool) and IBM Tivoli Advance allocation management for z/OS (allocation optimizer tool).
• 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, Copy Services Manager, ESSNI etc., Resiliency - Hyperswap & Hyperwrite, Performance - Hyperlinks.
• Nice to have: Certificate deployment and management for network connections, Python or Perl Scripting, GDPSSecure Vault (Cyber) - Physical and Virtual isolation, Cloud Storage for tape archival.

Benefits

Morgan Stanley offers a comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off, 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees. Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings.

Pay

Base pay ranges from $110,000 to $165,000 per year, with a salary range of $125,000 to $175,000 per year for certain locations. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award and participate in the relevant business unit’s incentive compensation plan, which may include a discretionary bonus component.

Schedule

The schedule for this position is not specified in the job posting.