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- United States
- Contract
- Full-time
- Experience
- Senior
- Posted
- 8 November 2026
- Apply by
- 7 January 2027
As a member of the mainframe Storage team, the responsible individual will work on storage infrastructure administration, configuration, and installation. This encompasses DASD, tape, virtual tape, encryption, and replication for backup and DR capabilities.
Worker Type
About the role
The associate will perform software and hardware refreshes, customer migrations and daily customer support.
Responsibilities
- Provide DASD and tape storage administration support for our customers.
- Manage storage pools for multiple customers and LPARs.
- Perform problem diagnostics and resolution.
- Create and oversee jobs for daily, weekly, and monthly backups.
- Participate in Data Center migration projects using multiple methodologies.
- Perform data and volume recovery.
- Perform data migrations between storage frames for existing customers.
- Participate in Disaster Recovery Tests.
- Interact with account management and with our customers.
- Interact with hardware and software vendors as required.
- Mentor and train Storage team members.
Requirements
- Strong analytical, problem resolution and root cause analysis skills.
- Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently.
- Ability to analyze performance on DASD and tape subsystems.
- Extensive skills with IBM storage software including IBM Copy Services Manager/Global Mirroring, SMS, HSM, IDCAMS, and DFDSS.
- Experience in preparing and implementing Disaster Recovery plans
- Expert knowledge of catalog structures, LPAR sysplexes, and resource sharing.
- Extensive knowledge of DASD hardware configurations incorporating replication.
- Extensive skills with IBM and Oracle/STK tape hardware and software.
- Extensive skills with CA-1, MIMTape.
- Functional skills with Dell/EMC.
- Functional skills with RMM, TLMS, GRS, Tapecopy, and SMF.
About Ensono
EmployeeEnsono is a leading IT Mainframe Outsourcer helping Fortune 500 customer’s access cutting-edge technologies. Ensono accomplishes this by hiring and retaining exceptional talent dedicated to customer satisfaction.
Primary Location City/State
Homebased - Downers Grove, IL - Finley, Illinois
Additional Locations (if applicable)
Ensono is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Ensono provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex, marital status, pregnancy, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, military status, or any other status protected by applicable law.
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