Mainframe Storage Consultant

**Federal Government Contract

**Secret Clearance Required

Description

This Government client plays a key role in the government's ability to deliver digital programs and services that improve the lives of Canadians, their families and communities.

The client works in partnership with key public-sector and private-sector stakeholders to implement enterprise-wide approaches for managing IT infrastructure services and employ effective and efficient business management processes. Maintaining strong customer relationships and service management is essential to the successful delivery of the organizations mandate.

The client has a requirement for Systems Administrator - Mainframe Storage to work with the Mainframe Data Management, Integration & Connectivity Services Support group for the Mainframe Operation Division for the organization.

Client group rundown

Mainframe Operations Management has a commitment to partners and clients to meet and maintain day-to-day operations and Service Level Agreements. There is currently a shortage of in-house Resources with the required skill sets.

The client's team is responsible for the operation of the IBM mainframe environment for a variety of partners. This particular team that the resource works in would be to manage mainframe storage, from the mainframe. The person would be responsible for carving of the disk, setting HSM classes to govern migration of datasets within the different tiers of mainframe storage. They would complete upgrade of software that resides on the mainframe that control mainframe storage.

The majority of systems hosted on mainframe are considered critical business applications for the government of Canada. There are systems that control the borders, air travel or commercial goods that travel in and out of Canada (CBSA), systems that support defense controls and the movement of military assets throughout the globe (DND), systems that support processing of tax returns and anything that has to do with taxation (CRA). This initiative is also tied to WLM - SSC has multiple closures of data centers on the books and the resource would also be responsible for supporting those.

The client is looking for the following skillsets and years of experience

Line of 3

1. 10+ years of experience in IT or as a systems administrator supporting IBM mainframe technologies

2. 5-7 years of recent working experience setting up HSM (Hierarchical storage management) classes to manage storage and back-ups

3. 5-7 years of recent working experience with carving of disks and IOGEN (must know how to configure mainframe to interact with SAN or storage area network and leveraging generate config command)

   1. 5-7 years of recent working experience with upgrading of software that is related to mainframe storage (only one way to do that, using SMP/E)

Skills

Storage, ibm mainframe

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

• secret clearance

• government experience not required, they just need the technical knowledge

Experience Level

Expert Level

If you would like more information, please apply within. Thank you!

À propos de TEKsystems:

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About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.