Description

We are currently seeking a motivated, career and customer oriented Mainframe Engineer to begin an exciting and challenging career with SAIC Federal Systems.

The Mainframe Engineer will work as part of a managed Storage-as-a-Service environment for a large Government client and will be responsible for the management of the clientâ€™s enterprise storage infrastructure.

Specific duties include:

Manage enterprise storage infrastructure in support of clientâ€™s Mainframe computing.
Provides a deep technical subject matter expertise and leadership for analyzing hardware and software needs.
Work independently and with vendors and customer to install, support, upgrade and configure mainframe storage infrastructure.
Work with client and storage vendors to maintain supported microcode levels.
Work with storage vendors to review microcode release notes: Evaluate risk based on runtime and machine hours then work with client to plan for and conduct maintenance on storage arrays.
Troubleshoot escalated storage hardware, configuration and availability issues.
Investigate and resolve storage performance issues.
Monitor the environment for performance and stability issues to meet Service Level Objectives.
Provides oversight and tracking of support tickets, ensuring that issues and requests are resolved in a timely manner.
Pro-actively monitor the environment and correct potential or present issues as identified.
Provides senior technical consulting internally to teammates and externally to a variety of IT teams.
Follow the clientsâ€™ and internal procedures for change management, incident management, and escalation.
Work with peers across multiple business units. Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
Provision storage per Storage-as-a-Service requirements.
Document new technical procedures and processes developed in coordination with Storage-as-a-Service business goals.

Identify new process and procedure improvements.

Qualifications

Position Requirements:

Ability to obtain Government agency BI security clearance with drug screening
Bachelor's degree and 8 years overall experience
Good Verbal and Written communication skills.

zOS Storage Administration

Mainframes host critical core IT for: 92 of the worldâ€™s top 100 banks; 23 of the 25 top airlines; 10 of the worldâ€™s top 10 insurers; and 71 percent of Fortune 500 companies.
Mainframes run 30 billion transactions per day, hold 80 percent of the worldâ€™s business data and handle 90 percent of all credit card transactions.
Mainframes host more transactions daily than Google (1.3 million/second on CICS vs. 68,542/second on Google), including 55 percent of all enterprise transactions.

IBM Storage Admins - IRS ESS:

Required Experience with IBM DS8K (Mandatory)
Required Experience with IBM HW planning, site prep, installs and upgrades (Mandatory)
Required Experience with IBM technology including DASD replication (PPRC, GDPS & HyperSwap) in support of HA and DR (Mandatory)
IBM HyperLink and HyperWrite knowledge (Desired)

Additional knowledge of open systems references below is a plus.

Preferable experience with HP EVA, IBM DS8K, Hitachi VSP/USP, Netapp

Experience with Brocade SAN Fabric switches
OS Administration: zOS,

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions.

We are more than 26,500 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a respectful work culture based on diversity, equity, and inclusion that values all contributors. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.1 billion. For more information, visit saic.com.

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