Mainframe Storage Engineer - Must be in EST

Position: Mainframe Storage Engineer(around 10yrs)
Location: Woodlawn, MD (Onsite – 5 days/week)
Duration: Long Term Contract
Experience Required: Min 12+ Years

Description of Work: 
Mainframe Storage Egineer to support the ******** in engineering, managing, and enhancing its

enterprise mainframe storage infrastructure. This role ensures high availability, data protection, and business resilience across

large-scale DASD, virtual tape, and object storage environments exceeding 80+ petabytes. The engineer will design, maintain,

and improve storage subsystems, replication architectures, disaster recovery processes, and automation supporting mission

critical ***** systems operating 24x7. The selected candidate will be part of the team that provides support to the Agency''''''''s Tape

Management System, Virtual Tape Control System, and Data Storage resources for*****production and test environments. The

highly complex and demanding workload, ensuring data availability 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, requires intense,

continuous support from ******* storage management component.

Basic Qualifications: Minimum knowledge, skills, abilities needed. 

• Bachelor''''''''s degree and 7+ years supporting IBM z/OS mainframe storage systems including SMS, HSM, ABARS, and ISMF.
• Experience with Dell PowerMax DASD, DLm virtual tape, PowerScale, ECS, and associated control software.
• Hands on experience with JCL, IDCAMS, ISPF, dataset utilities, volume and catalog management.
• Experience with BMC Mainview SRM, StopX37, Rocket BRM, TREX, and related toolsets.
• Experience with z/OS access methods including VSAM, BSAM, QSAM, BPAM, and OAM.
• Knowledge of FICON, TCP/IP, and mainframe connectivity models.
• Strong documentation and customer support skills.
• Deep expertise in storage engineering including performance, capacity planning, replication, and DR.
• Ability to design, test, and deploy mainframe storage infrastructure including DASD, tape, ECS, and replication topologies.
• Experience implementing automation scripts for reporting, alerts, analysis, and storage management.
• Experience working with ServiceNow change/incident processes in enterprise environments.
• 7 years of experience or more as a Mainframe Storage Engineer.
• 5 years of experience with Oracle VSMc (VSM console), VSM, VLE and ZFS Virtual tape Libraries.
• 4 years of experience with IBM Job Control Language (JCL).
• 4 years of experience with CA-1 Tape Management System (TMS) and CA Vantage.
• 3 years of experience designing and building Storage Management System (SMS).
• 2 years of experience using DataDomain Management Center (DDMC).
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience using Time Sharing Option (TSO).
• Experience with Data Domain.
• Enhance mainframe storage infrastructure to meet SSA mission critical performance and availability objectives.
• Engineer and maintain business resilience processes including replication, snapshots, ABARS, HSM, and virtual tape infrastructure.
• Manage SMS constructs, ACS routines, storage classes, management classes, and ISMF based configuration.
• Support customer requests related to provisioning, backup/recovery, dataset utilities, JCL, ISPF, and catalog services.
• Design and implement storage architectures, automated tiering, virtualized provisioning pools, and SRDF/GDDR configurations.
• Conduct disaster recovery engineering, scripting, planning, and execution including RPO/RTO compliance.
• Develop engineering documentation, project plans, scripts, test models, and monthly activity reporting in Microsoft Office formats.
• Perform analysis, troubleshooting, and resolution of backup, replication, storage performance, and capacity issues.
• Managing and supporting the Agency''''''''s Tape Management System, Virtual Tape Control System, and Data Storage resources.
• Monitoring storage environment to ensure that storage workloads are performing as designed and planned.
• Expertise in the Linux command-line environment.
• Ability to produce operational documentation using industry best practices in technical writing.
• Ability to gather process requirements to automate into Ansible playbooks.
• Providing support for disaster recovery exercises through their vaulting operations, and tape and encryption processes.
• Use of IBM''''''''s Job Control Language (JCL), IBM''''''''s dataset utilities, IBM''''''''s Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF), and
• IBM''''''''s Access Method Services (IDCAMS) tools to manage datasets.

Preferred Qualifications: Candidates with these skills will be given preferential consideration.

• Experience supporting federal agency mainframe environments.
• Experience designing long term storage transformation architectures.
• Experience supporting cyber resilience, electronic vaulting, and disaster recovery exercises.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross functional technical teams.
• Demonstrated experience growing, maintaining, problem monitoring and engineer problem resolutions on virtual tape architectures.
• Demonstrated experience designing, installing, configuring, provisioning, and deploying storage hardware used in a multi-node storage architecture.
• Experience developing best practice project plans, engineering scripts, and documentation needed to migrate workloads to virtual tape.