Mainframe Storage Engineer

Job Title: Mainframe Storage Engineer

Location: Onsite Role, Woodlawn MD, Lakewood CO & Durham NC

Duration: 12+ months contract

Job Description

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree with 7+ years of experience
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust

Key Skills Required: -

• Proficiency in z/OS and Time Sharing Option
• Experience with Data Domain and Dell EMC DLm8500 systems
• Knowledge of ISPF and InsightIQ - Ability in technical writing and Ansible playbooks

Position is open to any candidate within 50-mile radius from the eVault Data Centers Woodlawn MD

Key Required Skills:

• z/OS, Time Sharing Option, Data Domain, Dell EMC DLm8500 systems, ISPF, InsightIQ, technical writing and Ansible playbooks.Position Description:
• Lead efforts in developing new strategies for operational efficiencies
• Work with applications teams and stakeholders as the platform technical lead
• Work with highly experienced and technical resources
• Assist technical leads in implementing systems and software updates
• Document processes, procedures and configurations
• Perform daily operations support functions, including problem isolation and resolution
• Provide status updates of task and project updates
• Provide system administration support
• Troubleshoot platform and application issues
• All other duties as assigned or directed

(Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field
• 7 years of experience or more as a Mainframe Storage Engineer.
• 7 years of experience with problem monitoring and engineering problem resolutions on virtual tape architectures.
• 5 years of experience with Dell/EMC, VSM, VLE and ZFS Virtual tape Libraries.
• 5 years of experience with IBM Job Control Language (JCL).
• 4 years of experience with CA-1 Tape Management System (TMS) and CA Vantage.
• 4 years of experience supporting Disaster Recovery planning, testing, monitoring and restoration for virtual tape storage systems
• 3 years of experience designing and building Storage Management System (SMS).
• 2 years of experience using Data Domain Management Center (DDMC)
• 2 years of experience using Time Sharing Option (TSO) on mainframe systems
• 2 years of experience with Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF).
• Expertise in the Linux command-line environment

(Required Skills)

• Knowledge of z/OS.
• Experience using Time Sharing Option (TSO).
• Experience with Data Domain.
• Experience with Dell EMC DLm8500 systems.
• Experience with ISPF.
• Experience with InsightIQ
• Ability to produce operational documentation using industry best practices in technical writing.
• Ability to gather process requirements to automate into Ansible playbooks

(Desired Skills)

• Demonstrated experience growing, maintaining, problem monitoring and engineer problem resolutions on virtual tape architectures.
• Experience with Cyber Recovery on virtual tape systems
• Demonstrated experience designing, installing, configuring, provisioning, and deploying storage hardware used in a multi-node storage architecture.
• Experience developing best practice project plans, engineering scripts, and documentation needed to migrate workloads to virtual tape.
• Prior Federal government experience
• Self-starter, highly motivated individual who adapts and isn't afraid to volunteer in a dynamic work environment
• Strong attention to detail with an ability to operate effectively across multiple priorities