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
  

Key Required Skills:
z/OS, Time Sharing Option, Data Domain, Dell EMC DLm8500 systems, ISPF, InsightIQ, technical writing and Ansible playbooks.

RequirementsBasic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 7+ years of experience.
  
• 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