Mainframe Storage Technology Analyst
On-siteColumbia, South Carolina, United States
Job Summary
Conduct technical interviews and analysis with vendors and stakeholders to develop and track the roadmap and lifecycle of infrastructure for hardware, software, products, and processes. Schedule regular meetings, conference calls, or on-site visits with vendors to review upcoming activities and research information impacting supported technology lifecycles. Facilitate the establishment, implementation, and maintenance of best practices, policies, standards, and desktop procedures for operational units. Establish and maintain effective working relationships with vendors, operations, architecture, and management staff. This role supports the portfolio of mainframe storage technologies and processes at Companion Data Services, a leading provider of IT solutions and managed services operating multiple geographically dispersed data centers.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's in a job-related field
- Associates degree plus an extra 2 years of job-related work experience for a total of 6 years of required work experience
- 8 total years required work experience
- 4 Years specific knowledge of the technology(s), product(s), and/or processes to be supported
- 1 Year directly supporting the technology(s), product(s), and/or processes
- Knowledge of a variety of information technology products and solutions
- Excellent research skills
- Customer service skills
- Verbal and written communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Good judgment
- Ability to work and communicate effectively with all levels of the IT organization
- Full time employment
- Fully onsite in Columbia, South Carolina (strongly preferred), State College, PA, or Dallas, TX
- Ability to perform technical interviews and analysis with vendors and/or stakeholders
- Ability to develop and track the road map/life cycle of infrastructure for hardware, software, products, and/or processes
- Ability to schedule regular meetings, conference calls, or on-site visits with vendors and/or stakeholders
- Ability to review with vendor and/or stakeholders known upcoming activities associated with their specific technology(s), product(s), and/or processes
- Ability to research and stay abreast of all information that may impact the lifecycle of any supported technology, product, and/or process
- Ability to facilitate the establishment, implementation, and maintenance of best practices, policies, standards, and desktop procedures
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships and open communication with vendors, operations, architecture, and/or management staff
Desired Qualifications
- IBM z/OS Mainframe experience
- Hands on Storage Administration
- Experience with HSM, DASD Storage, and/or DFSMS
- Coding SMS ACS routines
- ISMF to translate, validate, and activate ACS routine, define and maintain SMS constructs
- HSM configuration and administration
- Monitor SMS storage group utilization
- RMM configuration and administration
- Creating storage management utilization reports
- Initialization and configuration of DASD devices
- DFSMSdss full volume and logical dataset dump and restore
- Working knowledge of Dino Software T-REX and UDM software products
- Working knowledge of Luminex Mainframe Virtual Tape (MVT), storage pools, LSCRUP process, and Luminex GUI
- IBM TDMF for z/OS
- Working knowledge of DELL EMC PowerMax and SRDF replication
- Exploitation of zEDC
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