IBM Storage Manager (Sheffield)

Role: IBM Z Storage Manager

Location: Sheffield, UK( Hybrid)

Job Type: Contract

Job Description:

Role Specific Expertise and Experience :

1. IBM zSeries Storage Management skills
2. Strong Technical Project management skills
3. Experience of working in a large enterprise of client's scale and complexity

General Knowledge & Experience:

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