Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on infrastructure disciplines concepts and 3+ years applied experience
- Strong knowledge of one or more infrastructure disciplines such as hardware, networking terminology, databases, storage engineering, deployment practices, integration, automation, scaling, resilience, and performance assessments
- Initialize new DASD volumes and Add new tape volumes. Perform the space management activities such as VTOC resizing, Defrag, Compress / Reclaim / Release / Cleaning of datasets.
- Manage and Define SMS rules and ACS routines along with reorganization of storage dataset (HSM CDS & Catalog file).
- Strong knowledge of various storage products like Catalog Recovery Plus, Vantage, STOPX37, DSS, JCLs, VSAM, HSM, CA1, CSM, DS8K, VTS and GDPS replication. Adopt the given technology to meet the drift of customer and business requirements.
- Demonstrated problem determination and resolution within expected time frame. Root Cause Analysis preparation and meeting Service level agreement for submission.
- Hands on experience with disaster recovery planning and performing the recovery test (Tape recovery / DASD Replication / Tape Replication) and Managing the Copy services / GDPS.
- Has the ability to develop, document and maintain procedures for system utilities such as backup/restore, performance tuning and configuration of environments as well as incremental backups as required.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills