Senior Solution Delivery Architect

Location

Chennai | India

Job description

• The Senior Solution Delivery Architect for Mainframe Storage will be responsible for making Tape and DASD ready for Disaster Recovery testing of mainframe environments
• The successful candidate will FLASH storage or pause replication prior to DR testing
• During testing the associate will respond to any reported issues such as inability to reach storage devices or missing data
• Will document issues or lessons learned for future tests
• Associate will also be engaged with new client migrations to become familiar with new clients and position that client for future DR testing
• Will serve as an escalation point for DR storage issues where the testing team is unable to find resolution
• Tests are scheduled months in advance the associates will know what days testing will occur
• There is no 24 7 or on-call support with this role except when that support pertains to an active Disaster Recovery test
• After hours work will be rare, and typically known well in advance

Qualifications

• A successful candidate for this position should have 8+ years senior level experience working within a z/OS environment supporting Tape and DASD functions
• Senior level knowledge of mainframe storage management environments like DFSMS, FDR/ABR, CA-1, DFRMM or equivalent
• Experience supporting Disaster Recovery within a mainframe environment
• Understanding of migration of data from one subsystem to another for both Tape and DASD
• Experience opening tickets with vendors such as IBM
• Must be self-motivated and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel to a level of creating documents which can be shared with clients
• Must be familiar with the concept of data replication

Secondary skills

• Successful candidate must be familiar with CSM (Copy Services Manager) and IBM GRID technology
• Experience with DELL PMAX, VMAX, and DLM also helpful
• Small amount of Luminex recovery does exist but prior experience is a plus though not required
• Successful candidate will be able to design storage solutions to meet client and business requirements
• Will lead projects to implement solutions to improve client storage environments
• Will serve as primary Subject Matter Expert during client Disaster Recovery testing

Job duties and responsibilities

• The first task listed should be the most important or time-consuming one, and so on.
• List what must be performed and accomplished than how, if there is more than one way to do it.
• Recovery mainframe storage for client Disaster Recovery Testing
• Manage storage replication from primary to secondary site
• Transition clients from in-house support into Ensono
• Physically migrate client mainframe environments into Ensono data centers

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