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Mainframe Storage Operations Engineer

DCI Solutions

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Job Requirements

Remote
Clearance Unspecified Polygraph not specified
Early Career (2+ yrs experience)
$90,000 - $130,000

Job Description

DCI Job Requirement for:
Mainframe Storage Operations Engineer
Locations: Remote


Job Description
• Serve as a Mainframe Storage Operations Engineer
• Perform daily mainframe storage operations using z/OS tools
◦ Optimize SMS/DASD utilization
◦ Verify HSM/DLM health and space
◦ Audit volumes/datasets across both plexes
◦ Submit CRs/incidents as needed to maintain reliability.
• Produce required compliance/capacity reporting (SCRT/SMF)
• Verify reclaim/housekeeping automation
• Complete operational work such as:
◦ Disk initialization
◦ Tape consolidations
◦ Maintenance of core storage software
• Coordinate Dell hardware patching/upgrades
• Monitor PowerMax/DLM/Data Domain health and certificates
• Check SMS pools for utilization daily
◦ Make adjustments to insure the proper and efficient use of resources
• Check the Storage environment and submit Incidents to insure storage reliability
• Check each HSM Control Datasets percentages
• Check HSM for if any HSM functions might be in a held status
• Check to see DLM allocate and remaining free space
• Check Storage and Spill volumes on both Plex’s
• Check for production DS on test volumes and test DS on production volumes
• Create and distribute SCRT reports (monthly)
• Create and run tape connected pair consolidations
• Install and maintain the following products:
◦ DLM Utilities
◦ MF Enablers
◦ Solutions Enabler (MF and Windows)
◦ GDDR
◦ TapeCopy
◦ Unisphere (Windows)
◦ Disaster Recovery
• Verify Mainframe production datasets before splitting Mainframe Storage
• Activate Eagan Mainframe Network Nodes
• MF System Housekeeping: run DR SMF/SCRT data collection jobs
• De-activate/shutdown network mainframe
• Dell Hardware Maintenance:
• Patch/upgrade/fix DLM, DD and PowerMax hardware
• Monitor EMC Hardware status
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related (preferred)
• Platform Storage engineering experience
• EMC/Dell storage administration experience within the past five years
• IBM Mainframe systems programming and administration experience
• Strong experience with DT storage
• DLM experience is required


Must be a US Citizen – USPS Security Clearance Highly Preferred
Job Type: Full-time
group id: 90942178
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DCI Solutions is a Small Business based in Maryand that focuses on providing engineering and program management consulting services to numerous government agencies. Our services are tailored to the needs of our specific government clients and their missions. DCI has extensive technical domain knowledge in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), command and control (C2), healthcare systems, high performance computing, and cyber warfare. DCI also provides its clients with critical program acquisition and planning support to enable them to operate effectively and efficiently in an austere funding environment. Our corporate structure is flat and all DCI employees are billable to customers by design. This gives us the ability to punch far above our weight in terms of having a direct impact on our customers'​ success. Our customers prefer us because we are LEAN, RESPONSIVE, and ENGAGED.

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