Solution Architect - Mainframe Storage

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Job Title-   Solution Architect - Mainframe Storage

Location –  100% remote - Canada

Contract – 1+ year

Years of Experience

Total :  Above 12 Years of experience

Relevant :    Minimum of 8 yrs in Storage L4 support

Storage hardware subsystems including IBM, EMC, DASD and Removable(Tape) Media Devices and Virtual Tape, IBM/STK ATL (robotic tape library)

Mainframe Tape, Virtual Tape & DASD Management

Work with Application teams supporting all Disk and Tape allocation issues

z/OS Operating System Storage installing, troubleshooting, operating, testing, planning and configuring relevant technologies.

Systems Managed Storage (DFSMS, RMM Tape Management, DFDSS DFHSM FDR ABR CPK, FDREPORT, FDRINSTANT)

Disaster Recovery testing for all PepsiCo Divisions (FDR/ABR/ABARS/T-Rex/TPCR replication)

Catalogs Management, (Add, move, recover Catalogs, along with size adjustments)

Storage monitoring tools installations and use

Monitor and add new storage volumes as needed

Hand's-on expertise with System z storage data migration and replication.

z/OS(MVS) program product installation and support

Project Management (Microsoft Project and Project Life Cycle Processes)

Per (1.) Incident Management + Change Management (Planning & Execution)

On - call Escalation

Ticket Quality

Process adherence & Security compliance

Customer feedback ( Appreciations, CSAT survey results)

KB preparation and review, Knowledge sharing & documentation

Root cause analysis / Problem Management + Capacity / Architectural Management

SLA compliance for tickets

Value Add

Training / Mentoring

Volume Management

Volume initialization & reclaim

Catalog Management.

Scratch Pool tape Maintenance.

Tape Library hardware support.

Backup & Restore (HSM, ADDRSU & FDRABR).

SMS routine changes & maintenance

VTS and ATL knowledge.

Storage housekeeping jobs maintenance.

FICON/ESCON Support.

REXX coding support.

JCL programming knowledge to run storage housekeeping jobs.

Tape Management activities using ZARA etc..

Dataset Management.

Independently resolve tickets within SLA

BMC main view knowledge.

DR Testing knowledge.