IBM Z Storage Engineer || Permanent Position || Remote work

Permanent Position
100% remote work
Client location: London

Role Expertise and Experience

1. IBM zSeries Storage Management skills

2. Strong Technical Project management skills

3. Experience of working in a large enterprise of Bank scale and complexity

Role Purpose

The zSeries Storage Engineer is responsible for leading, building and supporting the zSeries Storage hardware and software infrastructure.

This role will carry out some or all of the following activities

• Perform a Technical Project Management role for large zSeries infrastructure deployment and evergreening projects
• Setup automation to reduce manaual interventions in the Storage infrastructure
• Test new software and exploit functionality
• Consolidate and reduce infrastructure complexity
• Risk and Cost Management
• Ensure Service Quality Targets are met for offered platform services
• Business stakeholder management
• Vendor liaison and management
• zSeries Storage hardware/software design, configuration, testing, implementation and support

Personal Experience

• zSeries Storage Management/Engineering background preferred and/or experience to equivalent level
• Working and partnering with vendors (eg IBM, DELL, Broadcom)
• Supporting and/or leading technical management of large infrastructure deployment projects
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise IT environment and the Embedded controls within change, incident, and problem management processes
• Experience working with Agile working practices and tooling
• Experience and awareness of security, audit, risk and compliance within enterprise IT environment

Hardware Technical Skills

• IBM DS8K disk hardware installation design, upgrade and support skills including DSCLI Scripting and familiarity with HMC GUI
• DELL DLM virtual tape (VTE with Data Domain) hardware installation design, upgrade and support skills with knowledge of GUI, NFS and Linux
• Broadcom (Brocade) DCX hardware skills and FICON/FIBRE concepts and configuration. Set-up and utilising SanNav and Maps

Software Technical Skills

• IBM core knowledge: z/OS, TSO, SDSF, JCL, IDCAMS, IWS
• IBM storage knowledge: DFHSM, DFDSS, ICKDSF, DFSMS (inc OAM), TDMF, GDPS, CSM
• Broadcom (CA): CA1, CA Vantage, CA Disk, CA Allocate, CA View, Endeavor
• Dino Software: T-rex, Terradon- Rocket: CR+ - Interchip: RTD