IBM Z Storage Manager
Posted Today by Middleware Systems
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
Summary: The IBM Z Storage Manager is responsible for leading and supporting the zSeries Storage hardware and software infrastructure within a large enterprise environment. This role involves technical project management for infrastructure deployment, vendor management, and ensuring service quality targets are met. The position requires collaboration with various stakeholders and the ability to adapt to evolving technology and industry standards. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in zSeries Storage Management and experience in managing complex IT environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform a Technical Project Management role for large zSeries infrastructure deployment and evergreening projects
- Setup automation to reduce manual 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 liaison and management
- zSeries Storage hardware/software design, configuration, testing, implementation and support
Key Skills:
- IBM zSeries Storage Management skills
- Strong Technical Project management skills
- Experience of working in a large enterprise of banking scale and complexity
- zSeries Storage Management/Engineering background preferred or equivalent experience
- 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 embedded controls within change, incident, and problem management processes
- Experience working with Agile practices and tooling
- Experience and awareness of security, audit, risk, and compliance within enterprise IT environment
- 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
- IBM DS8K disk hardware installation design, upgrade and support skills
- DELL DLM virtual tape hardware installation design, upgrade and support skills
- Broadcom DCX hardware skills and FICON/FIBRE concepts and configuration
- IBM core knowledge: z/OS, TSO, SDSF, JCL, IDCAMS, IWS
- IBM storage knowledge: DFHSM, DFDSS, ICKDSF, DFSMS, TDMF, GDPS, CSM
- Broadcom CA software knowledge
- Dino Software knowledge
- Rocket software knowledge
- Interchip knowledge
- Knowledge of zSeries Systems Programming concepts and technologies (optional)
- Awareness of Network technologies and Dark Fibre concepts (optional)
- Awareness of newer or emerging technologies (optional)
- Awareness of IBM Virtual tape solutions (TS7700's) (optional)
- Experience of data centre migrations (optional)
- Knowledge of GKLM, Spectrum Control and Storage insights and API exploitation (optional)
- Knowledge of Ansible Automation Platform, GitHub, Jenkins (optional)
- Programming/Scripting languages: Rexx, Python, YAML (optional)
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Sheffield
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
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 banking scale and complexity
(Technical/Business/Tool
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 (eg 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
Role Purpose (overall high level summary of the role)
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 liaison and management
zSeries Storage hardware/software design, configuration, testing, implementation and support
Major Challenges (The challenges inherent in the role that require a continual test of the role holder's abilities)
Must keep pace with technology and industry development. Must be able to engage effectively with multiple stakeholders to drive appropriate outcomes. Must be able to lead and shape the storage infrastructure.
Role Context (The environment and operating conditions of the role including the extent of guidance and authority)
The role is based in our group data centre and is working as part of a dispersed global team. Good team collaboration and use of communication tools is expected (email, MS Teams, Zoom).
Individuals are expected to be self-sufficient and would be empowered to do so but also work as part of a team.