Description
We are seeking a Technical Specialist Practitioner to join our team in Chennai. As a Technical Specialist Practitioner, you will build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required, with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure.
Responsibilities:
- Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use.
- Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages.
- Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
- Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats.
- Teamwork: Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data-driven approach.
- Learning: Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organisation's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in Mainframe Infrastructure, with strong depth in Mainframe Storage.
- Extensive hands-on experience with IBM Disk / DASD, including provisioning, configuration, replication, performance troubleshooting, and migration.
- Strong experience managing IBM Tape platforms and enterprise tape operations.
- Proven delivery experience with storage upgrades, migrations, recovery testing, and disaster recovery execution.
- Strong experience with Hyperswap, Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, CSM, and GDPS technologies.
- Demonstrated capability in capacity planning, performance analysis, and storage forecasting.
- Hands-on experience with OMEGAMON for Storage for real-time monitoring, alerting, and observability.
- Experience handling major production incidents in large-scale, high-availability mainframe environments.
- IBM DS8000 / DASD administration.
- IBM Tape / VTS / TS7700 technologies.
- DFSMS, DFSMShsm, DFSMSdss, DFSMSrmm.
- SMS constructs, ACS routines, ISMF.
- ICF Catalog, IDCAMS, ICKDSF.
- Hyperswap, CSM, GDPS, Metro Mirror, Global Mirror.
- Capacity planning, Dcollect and SMF-based analysis.
- OMEGAMON for Storage (monitoring, alerting, observability).
- z/OS fundamentals including TSO, ISPF, JCL, VSAM, JES2, REXX.
- Experience in banking, financial services, or regulated environments.
- Exposure to Brocade FICON / SAN connectivity and remote replication networking.
- Experience with storage automation, service reliability engineering, and operational simplification.
- Strong documentation and change implementation experience in production mainframe environments.