Sr Tower Lead (Tools & Automation)
HCL Technologies B.V. · Amsterdam, Noord-Hollandapprox. The posting names no place; this is the employer's city.
- Location
- Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
- The posting names no place; this is the employer's city.
- Work location
- Hybrid
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About the job
Job Summary
The Mainframe Storage Admin owns the design, configuration, migration and ongoing optimization of the DASD and virtual tape storage estate, including GDPS-integrated resiliency and Logical Corruption Protection via immutable copies. The role also drives storage capacity optimization and integration with cloud storage tiers as part of broader modernization initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and configure new DASD storage subsystems and Virtual Tape Server (VTS/TS7700) environments or other OEMs like Hitachi and Dell/EMC.
- Install, upgrade, decom and maintain Storage products like CA1-Tape Management, IBM TACM, CA Vantage etc. and tool consolidation along with decommission.
- Migrate the storage architecture from IBM DS8K to Hitachi or vice-versa.
- Configure and validate GDPS-integrated storage replication (e.g., Metro Mirror/PPRC, Global Mirror) for high availability and disaster recovery.
- Implement and manage immutable/Safeguarded Copy configurations to deliver Logical Corruption Protection (LCP) against ransomware and data corruption events.
- Participate in and help design high-availability and disaster recovery exercises, including planned/unplanned region-switch testing.
- Continuously monitor and optimize storage capacity utilization, including SMS policy tuning and DFSMShsm lifecycle management.
- Lead integration of mainframe storage with cloud storage tiers (e.g., Transparent Cloud Tiering) as part of hybrid storage strategies.
- Perform Proof-of-concept (POC) on Sandbox LPAR to build & test the use-cases using different vendor products which are found promising and establish the documentation proof of benefits realization after POC completion.
- Support storage-related audits, compliance reviews, and capacity forecasting for customer environments by analysing DCOLLECT & SMF Data.
- Partner with z/OS, Db2/IMS, and automation teams to ensure storage architecture aligns with overall platform resiliency goals.
Skill Requirements
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