Mainframe Architect

Job Title: Mainframe Architect

Location: Atlanta GA

Duration: 12months

Job Description;

• Provide functional expertise for critical zOS operating system software and mainframe platform capabilities

• Serve as subject matter expert for the products you will become responsible to support and maintain.

• Mainly zSeries hardware and software infrastructures and technologies.

• Lead small projects and provide technical expertise for larger storage projects

• Design develop enhance and maintain the zSeries mainframe platform and zOS operating system including supporting software storage and

utilities tools to meet business requirements.

• Provides high level technical leadership and support in the design implementation and administration of storage hardware and the associated

management software.

• Able to understand highly complex storage infrastructures and has ability to design deploy and manage without supervision.

• Champions needs of customer community and enhancing user experience as related to storage performance and reliability.

• Acts as technical point of contact (SME) for the zEnterprise Storage platform.

• Manage over 450 TB of DASD Storage and over 1.5 PB of TAPE/VTS Storage.

• Provide operational and production support for zOS Systems or zOS DB2/IDMS/CICS Database including third level support and problem

resolution for the production preproduction and lowerlevel testing environments.

Expertise / Proficiency:

• 5 plus years of experience with zSeries Mainframe hardware and software storage technologies and associated infrastructure.

• Especially DASD and TAPE (VTS) storage.

• Demonstrated strong technical aptitude with strong problemsolving and critical thinking skills.

• Advanced knowledge of IBM Z hardware and software technologies architecture operating systems and configurations.

• Selfmotivated with the ability to multitask and embrace an everchanging environment competing priorities and high expectations.

• Must have a bias for action be results oriented and have a proven track record of success.

• Storage management experience with virtual tape for mainframe systems (IBM TS7760/40/20 RMM)

• Storage management experience for mainframe DASD (IBM DS8x00 FlashCopy PPRC Hyperswap/Metro Mirror GLOBAL Copy TDMF)

• Accountability for enforcement of storage rules and standards monitoring DASD/Tape usage insuring data integrity and maintaining catalogues

and the routines of z/OS storage backup archive migration restore compression idle space release management reporting and DASD conversion

and/or movement.

• Technical knowledge and experience in the use and/or administration of IBM utilities DFP DFDSS SMS HSM RMM CAPDSMAN

DIF/ACC/SRS Catalog Recovery Plus BVIR Reporting and TPCR / CSM User Interface.

• Strong zOS operating system with an SMPE REXX COBOL HLASM and C/C programming language skillset

• Experience a plus with zOS control program internals TCPIP host communications zOS database management and Storage Management skills

using products such as DTSs ACC/DIF/SRS

• Knowledge of other zOS products a plus Dumpmaster Insync SyncSort USS and OMVS (NFS/DFS/ZFS) ZIP390 and Applications

Performance Analyzer.

Additional programming language/technologies a plus JCL, Java, REXX, Python, HLASM, COBOL, PL/I, artificial intelligence, and automation