Senior Mainframe Storage Engineer

Senior Mainframe Storage Engineer

Location:

Chandler, AZ (Hybrid)

This position supports mission-critical IBM Z storage platforms, with a focus on ensuring high availability, resiliency, data protection, and regulatory compliance. The role involves business as usual (BAU) operations, automation, cyber-resilience, and the delivery of storage services that enable parallel development, testing, and production workloads. The work schedule is hybrid, requiring a minimum of three days per week onsite.

• Operate and support IBM DS8000 (Gen9/Gen
  10) and associated mainframe storage environments.
• Design, implement, and support Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, Global Copy, and Hyper Swap.
• Support continuous availability, GDPS-managed replication, and multi-site resiliency architectures.
• Implement and maintain Safeguarded Copy / immutable backups and cyber-resilient recovery designs.
• Execute and validate disaster recovery tests, recovery automation, and control evidence.
• Support parallel development, testing, and production environments while maintaining controls.
• Perform BAU risk routines, capacity management, and storage provisioning.
• Address audit, regulatory, and security baseline requirements.
• Support automation, tooling, and modernization initiatives.
• Partner with application, platform, and infrastructure teams to reduce lead times.

Experience:

7–12+ years of hands-on experience supporting enterprise mainframe storage environments. Proven experience in 24x7, mission-critical, highly regulated production environments is necessary, preferably within financial services. Candidates should have experience operating at scale across multiple data centers and regions.

• Strong experience with IBM Z / zOS mainframe storage.
• Hands-on expertise with DS8000 Copy Services and GDPS.
• Experience with FICON, SAN concepts, and enterprise storage controls.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, resiliency, cyber-recovery, and immutable backup patterns.
• Strong understanding of z/OS I/O architecture (CHPIDs, control units, paths), FICON protocols, and multi-pathing concepts.
• Proficiency with I/O performance diagnostics (RMF, SMF, DCOLLECT).
• Experience working with z/OS systems programmers.
• Familiarity with Python.

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a Support Linc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts.

In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach.