Mainframe Storage Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Mainframe Storage Engineer to support the Social Security Administration (SSA) in engineering, managing, and enhancing its enterprise mainframe storage infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Enhance mainframe storage infrastructure to meet SSA mission critical performance and availability objectives.
• Engineer and maintain business resilience processes (replication, snapshots, ABARS, HSM, and virtual tape).
• Manage SMS constructs, ACS routines, storage classes, management classes, and ISMF based configuration.
• Support requests related to provisioning, backup/recovery, dataset utilities, JCL, ISPF, and catalog services.
• Design and implement storage architectures, automated tiering, virtualized pools, and SRDF/GDDR.
• Create documentation, project plans, scripts, test models, and monthly activity reports in MS Office.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve backup, replication, storage performance, and capacity issues.
• Manage and support the Agency's Tape Management and Virtual Tape Control Systems.
• Conduct disaster recovery engineering, scripting, planning, and execution including RPO/RTO compliance.
• Provide disaster recovery exercise support through their vaulting operations and tape & encryption processes.
• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree + 7 years’ experience.
• 7+ years supporting IBM z/OS mainframe storage systems including SMS, HSM, ABARS, and ISMF.
• 5+ years with Oracle VSMc (VSM console), VSM, VLE and ZFS Virtual tape Libraries.
• 4+ years with CA-1 Tape Management System (TMS) & CA Vantage and IBM Job Control Language (JCL).
• 3+ years of experience designing and building Storage Management System (SMS).
• 2+ years of experience using DataDomain Management Center (DDMC).
• Experience with Dell PowerMax DASD, DLm virtual tape, PowerScale, ECS, and associated control software.
• Hands on experience with JCL, IDCAMS, ISPF, dataset utilities, volume and catalog management.
• Experience with BMC Mainview SRM, StopX37, Rocket BRM, TREX, and related toolsets.
• Experience with z/OS access methods including VSAM, BSAM, QSAM, BPAM, and OAM.
• Deep expertise in storage engineering including performance, capacity planning, replication, and DR.
• Experience implementing automation scripts for reporting, alerts, analysis, and storage management.
• Experience working with ServiceNow change/incident processes in enterprise environments.
• Experience with Dell EMC DLm8500 systems, Data Domain and using Time Sharing Option.
• Knowledge of FICON, TCP/IP, and mainframe connectivity models.
• Strong documentation and customer support skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.