IBM Z Storage Manager

1.           IBM zSeries Storage Management skills

2.           Strong Technical Project management skills

3.           Experience of working in a large enterprise of HSBC scale and complexity

Personal Experience

-                      zSeries Storage Management / Engineering background preferred and / or experience to equivalent level

-                      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 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