IBM Z Storage Manager - #2085988

Role: IBM Z Storage Manager

Location: Sheffield , UK

Type od Work: Contract

Mode of Work: 2-3 Days Onsite in a week

Responsibilities:

The zSeries Storage Engineer 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 manaual 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

Specific Expertise and Experience (Technical/Business/Tool)

1. IBM zSeries Storage Management skills


2. Strong Technical Project management skills


3. Experience of working in a large enterprise of banking scale and complexity

General Knowledge & Experience (For the role – not the role holder.  Minimum requirements of the role.)

Personal Experience

• zSeries Storage Management/Engineering background preferred 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 ethi, Collaborating with others and building a network


• Strong interpersonal skills

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