Senior IBM Z Storage Manager
Inside IR35 £415 per day
Hybrid - 2 days a week in Barnsley
10 month initial contract
Role Overview:
The zSeries Storage Manager 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 manual 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 liason 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 (e.g. 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
Personal Skills
- Ability to work under pressure to deadlines
- Strong work ethic
- Collaborating with others and building a network
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to pitch communications to a variety of stakeholders
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
Additional skills (optional)
- Knowledge of zSeries Systems Programming concepts and technologies
- Awareness of Network technologies and Dark Fibre concepts
- Awareness of newer or emerging technologies
- Awareness of IBM Virtual tape solutions (TS7700's)
- Experience of data centre migrations
- Knowledge of: GKLM, Spectrum Control and Storage insights and API exploitation
- Knowledge of Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), GitHub, Jenkins
- Programing / scripting languages: Rexx, Python, YAML