Clairvoyant LLC
Manager - IBM Z Mainframe Storage Engineer
Clairvoyant LLC, Trenton, New Jersey, United States,
Manager - IBM Z Mainframe Storage Engineer
New Jersey, USA
Req #26917Tuesday, August 20, 2024Company Overview and Culture
EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS) is a global analytics and digital solutions company that partners with clients to improve business outcomes and unlock growth. Bringing together deep domain expertise with robust data, powerful analytics, cloud, and AI, we create agile, scalable solutions and execute complex operations for the world’s leading corporations in industries including insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, media, and retail, among others. Focused on creating value from data for driving faster decision-making and transforming operating models, EXL was founded on the core values of innovation, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect. Headquartered in New York, our team is over 40,000 strong, with more than 50 offices spanning six continents. For information, visit www.exlservice.com.For the past 20 years, EXL has worked as a strategic partner and won awards in its approach to helping its clients solve business challenges such as digital transformation, improving customer experience, streamlining business operations, taking products to market faster, improving corporate finance, building models to become compliant more quickly with new regulations, turning volumes of data into business opportunities, creating new channels for growth and better adapting to change. The business operates within four business units: Insurance, Health, Analytics, and Emerging businesses.Job Description:The IBM Z Storage Administrator will work with the IBM mainframe team to install, customize, and maintain the IBM Z Storage environment, which encompasses DASD, Tape and SanFabric.Responsibilities:Manage system performance, reliability and availability to service level agreements.Ensure that hardware and application security and controls meet or exceed guidelines.Design rollouts of system enhancements and software upgrades.Perform periodic hardware refresh of DASD, Directors and Tape.Develop, manage and maintain a comprehensive disaster recovery plan for all managed systems.Create standards for supported systems and maintain detailed documentation of the mainframe storage infrastructure, including configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides.Be responsible for troubleshooting and identifying the root cause of issues and implementing effective solutions.Provide monthly usage reports and periodic updates to management.Automate processes using VMWare Automation tools.Create documentation and SOPs.Provide Operations Support.Interaction with Service Center, Network Control Center and other business support areas for problem escalations, resolutions, reporting and coordination.Qualifications:Key Requirements:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline preferred.8-12 years of relevant work experience.Hands-on experience in a GDPS, Global Mirror, Metro Mirror, HiperSwap environment.Thorough knowledge and expertise with HCD in a large scale enterprise environment with numerous CECs across multiple locations.Knowledge of Brocade SAN equipment and associated management tools (Brocade Network Advisor).Experience installing and configuring IBM Mainframes, Virtual Tape systems, and DS8000 DASD.Knowledge of dataset structures (PDS, PDSE, GDG, VSAM, etc.).Experience Administering DFSMS policies and constructs.Knowledge and experience with IBM Flashcopy process.Knowledge of FDR/ABR and DFDSS.Experience with CA1 Tape Management Software.Experience with TDMF.Coding Languages: Assembler, Automation, GDPS, Rexx and CLIST skills.Proficiency in Security software tools: RACF and ACF2 and performance monitoring using Omegamon, RMF, SMF and SAS.
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New Jersey, USA
Req #26917Tuesday, August 20, 2024Company Overview and Culture
EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS) is a global analytics and digital solutions company that partners with clients to improve business outcomes and unlock growth. Bringing together deep domain expertise with robust data, powerful analytics, cloud, and AI, we create agile, scalable solutions and execute complex operations for the world’s leading corporations in industries including insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, media, and retail, among others. Focused on creating value from data for driving faster decision-making and transforming operating models, EXL was founded on the core values of innovation, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect. Headquartered in New York, our team is over 40,000 strong, with more than 50 offices spanning six continents. For information, visit www.exlservice.com.For the past 20 years, EXL has worked as a strategic partner and won awards in its approach to helping its clients solve business challenges such as digital transformation, improving customer experience, streamlining business operations, taking products to market faster, improving corporate finance, building models to become compliant more quickly with new regulations, turning volumes of data into business opportunities, creating new channels for growth and better adapting to change. The business operates within four business units: Insurance, Health, Analytics, and Emerging businesses.Job Description:The IBM Z Storage Administrator will work with the IBM mainframe team to install, customize, and maintain the IBM Z Storage environment, which encompasses DASD, Tape and SanFabric.Responsibilities:Manage system performance, reliability and availability to service level agreements.Ensure that hardware and application security and controls meet or exceed guidelines.Design rollouts of system enhancements and software upgrades.Perform periodic hardware refresh of DASD, Directors and Tape.Develop, manage and maintain a comprehensive disaster recovery plan for all managed systems.Create standards for supported systems and maintain detailed documentation of the mainframe storage infrastructure, including configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides.Be responsible for troubleshooting and identifying the root cause of issues and implementing effective solutions.Provide monthly usage reports and periodic updates to management.Automate processes using VMWare Automation tools.Create documentation and SOPs.Provide Operations Support.Interaction with Service Center, Network Control Center and other business support areas for problem escalations, resolutions, reporting and coordination.Qualifications:Key Requirements:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline preferred.8-12 years of relevant work experience.Hands-on experience in a GDPS, Global Mirror, Metro Mirror, HiperSwap environment.Thorough knowledge and expertise with HCD in a large scale enterprise environment with numerous CECs across multiple locations.Knowledge of Brocade SAN equipment and associated management tools (Brocade Network Advisor).Experience installing and configuring IBM Mainframes, Virtual Tape systems, and DS8000 DASD.Knowledge of dataset structures (PDS, PDSE, GDG, VSAM, etc.).Experience Administering DFSMS policies and constructs.Knowledge and experience with IBM Flashcopy process.Knowledge of FDR/ABR and DFDSS.Experience with CA1 Tape Management Software.Experience with TDMF.Coding Languages: Assembler, Automation, GDPS, Rexx and CLIST skills.Proficiency in Security software tools: RACF and ACF2 and performance monitoring using Omegamon, RMF, SMF and SAS.
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