Mainframe Storage Engineer
Company: Leidos
Location: Denver
Posted on: January 28, 2023
Job Description:
Description Job Description:Come join one of our high performing
teams responsible for building and supporting enterprise open
systems platform of the Social Security Administration (SSA) and
their mission to meet the changing needs of the public, positively
impacting at least 65 million American lives per month.The
Mainframe Storage Engineer must be a motivated self-starter having
strong systems, software, and mainframe virtual storage experience
to support a complex geographically dispersed virtual tape storage
capacity exceeding 47PB's across three data centers. SSA employs
enterprise class Direct Access Storage Device (DASD) and Virtual
Tape subsystems to house agency business data.Do you have most of
these key required skills, education, or experience? Do you want to
learn more about our telework posture? Are you an US citizen, US
resident, or Visa candidate and think you might fit? We recommend
you apply and start the conversation today! Join us in supporting
our SSA contracts in Woodlawn, Maryland.Team Culture:Your passion
and values might be a good fit for our teams if you answer "yes" to
the following questions:
- Are you looking for a company that puts employees first, with a
focus on career, flexibility, and well-being?
- Do you enjoy collaborating with colleagues and teammates and
believe that the best ideas are fostered in an inclusive
environment?
- Are you searching for a team with a strong sense of ownership,
urgency, and drive for daily mission success?
- Are you comfortable with proactive outward communication and
technical leadership?
- Do you enjoy being a catalyst, solving complex problems, and
providing innovative solutions?
- Do you have the flexibility, creativity, and resilience to
pivot the mission for success?
- Do you have the courage to make tough ethical decisions with
pride, transparency, and respect?Mentorship & Career Growth: Our
teams are dedicated to supporting new team members in an
environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.
Experienced engineers will be assigned to new hires for one-on-one
mentoring, collaborative code reviews, and coaching on customer
engagement to help each new hire successfully onboard and
demonstrate their skills. Projects and tasks are assigned in a way
that leverages your strengths and will help you further develop
your skillset.Foundation for Success (Basic Qualifications):This
experience is the foundation a candidate needs to be successful in
this position:
- Bachelors and 8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters
with 6 years of prior relevant experience.
- 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).
- Expertise in the Linux command-line environment.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.Factors to
Help You Shine (Required Skills):These skills will help you succeed
in this position:
- Knowledge of z/OS.
- Experience using Time Sharing Option (TSO).
- Experience with Data Domain.
- Experience with Dell EMC DLm8500 systems.
- Experience with ISPF.
- Ability to produce operational documentation using industry
best practices in technical writing.
- Ability to gather process requirements to automate into Ansible
playbooks.How to Stand Out from the Crowd (Desired Skills)Showcase
your knowledge of modern development through the following
experience or skills:
- 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.
- Prior Federal government experience
- Self-starter, highly motivated individual who adapts and isn't
afraid to volunteer in a dynamic work environment
- Strong attention to detail with an ability to operate
effectively across multiple prioritiesDay to Day Responsibilities:
At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of
our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers'
success. We empower our teams and contribute to our communities.
Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for
our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision,
and Values guide the way we do business. If this sounds like a
mission you want to be a part of, keep reading!Every position we
take is more rewarding when you know the why behind it.Know your
work makes a difference to support those who need it most. If your
passion is enabling life changing service to those around, you this
is the place for you. Find you passion in a team environment where
all members are valued regardless of contractor or employee status.
We are excited for you to take your place in our Leidos Family.Find
your "Why" with us!
- Managing and supporting the Agency's Tape Management System,
Virtual Tape Control System, and Data Storage resources.
- Providing support for disaster recovery exercises through their
vaulting operations, and tape and encryption processes.
- Monitoring storage environment to ensure that storage workloads
are performing as designed and planned.
- This includes managing and documenting the Storage Resource
Management (SRM), Storage Performance Management, Control Software
and error reporting software.
- Design, build/re-engineer, test, deploy, and document both
Storage Management System (SMS) and non-SMS system storage space
for each sysplex.
- Assist with DDMC and UniSphere deployment enhancements and
exploration.
- Analyze the operating posture of the existing storage hardware
and software.
- 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.
- Work with advanced technical principles, theories, and
concepts.
- Challenge with working on complex technical problems and
providing innovative solutions.
- Work with highly experienced and technical resources
- All other duties as assigned or directedThe 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 SSA's 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
SSA's storage management component.Candidate must be willing to
work on-site in the Lakewood, CO office if the customer requests
this, otherwise for now they can work remotely. The remote schedule
is: Regular Shift - Mon thru Friday - time within 6am-6pm - East
Coast time. They can determine their actual schedule with the
customer once they onboard.Education & Qualifications
- Bachelors and 8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters
with 6 years of prior relevant experience.
- Must be able to obtain a Public TrustLeidos' Health Group is
recognized as a Top 10 Health IT provider. We draw on decades of
success to deliver a range of solutions and services designed to
meet the healthcare challenges of today. From the research bench to
the patient bedside, we are a company of scientists, engineers, and
technologists delivering a broad range of impactful, customizable,
and scalable solutions to hospitals and health systems, biomedical
organizations, and every U.S. federal agency focused on health.
Leidos works with customers across the continuum of care to improve
clinical, operational, and financial outcomes with innovative
solutions that advance the next generation of care. Our mission is
to contribute to creating a healthier world. Begin your journey of
a flourishing and meaningful career, share your resume with us
today!ITSSCIIPay Range:Pay Range $97,500.00 - $150,000.00 -
$202,500.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general
guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary.
Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but
are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education,
experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal
equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement
(if any), or other law.#Remote
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