Mainframe Storage Engineer

Brown Brothers Harriman•Jersey City, NJ

1d•$130,000 - $165,000

About The Position

The Mainframe Storage Engineer is responsible for the engineering, administration, optimization, and strategic direction of enterprise storage platforms supporting IBM Z (z/OS) and distributed environments. Serving as a senior technical subject matter expert within Enterprise Storage, this role ensures the availability, resiliency, security, recoverability, and performance of storage services supporting critical business functions. The engineer leads complex technical initiatives, drives storage modernization efforts, supports regulatory and cyber resiliency requirements, collaborates across infrastructure, operations, application, and security teams, and mentors junior engineers while promoting operational excellence and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
A minimum of five years of enterprise storage engineering experience.
At least three years supporting IBM Z and z/OS storage environments.
Strong experience supporting business-critical production environments.
Solid understanding of enterprise storage architecture, SAN infrastructure, disaster recovery, data protection, and operational support within regulated environments.
Experience working within incident, change, problem, risk, and compliance management frameworks.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and technical leadership skills.
Advanced knowledge of IBM DS8000, z/OS storage environments, DFSMS, DFHSM (HSM), SMS administration, catalog management, storage groups, IDCAMS, ICKDSF, TSO, JCL, FICON architecture, and CKD/ECKD storage administration, including performance analysis, allocation strategies, and recovery procedures.
Experience with Dell DLm, IBM TS7700, IBM Virtual Tape Library, SecureAgent VTL, disaster recovery validation, archival strategies, and recovery testing methodologies.
Additional expertise should include IBM FlashSystem, IBM Storage Scale, IBM Storage Virtualize, IBM Storage Insights, Pure Storage FlashArray, Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, HyperSwap, FlashCopy, and PPRC technologies.
Strong familiarity with Cisco MDS SAN infrastructure, Brocade Fibre Channel fabrics, SAN zoning, Fibre Channel networking, FICON connectivity, and storage performance troubleshooting.

Nice To Haves

Experience within financial services or other highly regulated industries.
Experience supporting large-scale IBM Z environments, enterprise disaster recovery programs, and storage modernization initiatives.
Knowledge of NYDFS cybersecurity requirements, NIST, cyber resiliency frameworks, SIEM integration, privileged access management, and regulatory governance standards.
Industry certifications from IBM, Cisco, Dell, Pure Storage, or related technology providers.
Experience with Dell PowerProtect Data Domain, Cobalt Iron Compass, Rubrik, Copy Services Manager, Safeguarded Copy, Splunk, ServiceNow, enterprise monitoring platforms, and automation technologies such as Python, PowerShell, Shell scripting, and Ansible.

Responsibilities

Designing, implementing, administering, and optimizing enterprise storage solutions including IBM DS8000, IBM FlashSystem, IBM Storage Scale (GPFS), IBM Storage Virtualize, and Pure Storage platforms across multiple data centers.
Storage provisioning, performance analysis, capacity planning, lifecycle management, hardware refreshes, and modernization initiatives while ensuring service levels for availability, resiliency, and recoverability are met.
Providing technical leadership for SAN infrastructure supporting FICON and Fibre Channel environments, including Cisco MDS and Brocade fabrics, zoning administration, connectivity management, and performance optimization.
Designing and supporting disaster recovery and business continuity solutions utilizing Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, HyperSwap, FlashCopy, PPRC, and related replication technologies.
Leading recovery exercises, validation testing, continuity planning, and ensuring recovery objectives align with business and regulatory requirements.
Supporting enterprise data protection and cyber resiliency programs through technologies such as Dell PowerProtect Data Domain, Dell DLm, IBM TS7700, IBM Virtual Tape Library, SecureAgent VTL, Cobalt Iron Compass, Rubrik, Copy Services Manager, and Safeguarded Copy, with responsibility for immutable recovery strategies, ransomware recovery readiness, and recovery testing.
Leading incident response, root cause analysis, and complex infrastructure changes while partnering with security and risk teams on encryption, key management, privileged access controls, audit readiness, and regulatory compliance initiatives.
Maintaining architecture standards, operational procedures, technical documentation, and runbooks.
Providing technical leadership and mentorship across the Enterprise Storage organization.