At Kyndryl, we run and reimagine the mission-critical technology systems that drive advantage for the world's leading businesses. We are at the heart of progress; with proven expertise and a continuous flow of AI-powered insight, enabling smarter decisions, faster innovation, and a lasting competitive edge. For our people-Kyndryls-that means doing purposeful work that powers human progress. Join us and experience a flexible, supportive environment where your well-being is prioritized and your potential can thrive.
The Role
Your Role
As a Mainframe Storage Administrator, you'll apply your expertise to the storage environments supporting customers' mission-critical mainframe systems. You'll be working across storage administration, replication, capacity and cyber resiliency, helping keep critical data available, protected and ready to support changing business needs.
You'll take a hands-on role in maintaining and optimizing complex mainframe storage environments, including GDPS configurations, DFSMShsm, SMS and IBM storage technologies. You'll monitor capacity and performance, investigate storage-related issues and support the upgrades, migrations and infrastructure changes needed to keep environments reliable and current.
Resilience will be a significant part of your work. You'll support IBM replication technologies including PPRC, Metro Mirror, Global Mirror and HyperSwap, alongside FlashCopy, Safeguarded Copy and recovery capabilities. You'll also contribute to cyber resiliency and disaster recovery activities, helping customers protect critical data and maintain recovery readiness.
Your work will balance day-to-day operational support with planned improvements. You'll analyse storage utilisation and growth, identify performance or capacity issues and turn operational data into practical recommendations. You'll collaborate directly with customers and other technical specialists on complex issues, infrastructure changes and resiliency initiatives.
What You Will Do
Manage storage environments: Administer and support enterprise mainframe storage infrastructure across critical production environments
Protect data resilience: Support GDPS and IBM replication environments, including PPRC, Metro Mirror, Global Mirror and HyperSwap capabilities
Manage storage services: Administer and optimise DFSMShsm and SMS environments, including ACS routines and associated storage management processes
Strengthen cyber resilience: Support technologies and processes including CSM, Safeguarded Copy, Cyber Vault operations, Thin Provisioning and point-in-time recovery
Monitor and optimize: Analyze storage capacity, utilization and performance to identify trends, resolve constraints and support future capacity requirements
Deliver infrastructure change: Support storage hardware and software upgrades, migrations and resiliency initiatives while maintaining production availability
Find and fix: Investigate complex storage issues using relevant diagnostic utilities and work with IBM support where product expertise is required
Turn data into action: Produce operational reporting and analysis that supports capacity planning, performance tuning and storage management decisions
One of the benefits of Kyndryl is that we work with clients in a variety of industries, from banking to retail. Whether you want to broaden your knowledge base or narrow your scope and specialize in a specific sector, you can find your opportunity here. You'll also get the chance to share your expertise by recommending modernization options, identifying new business opportunities, and cultivating relationships with other teams and stakeholders. Does the work get challenging at times? Yes! But you'll collaborate with a diverse group of talented people and gain invaluable management and organizational skills, which will come in handy as you move forward in your career.
Your Future at Kyndryl
Every position at Kyndryl offers a way forward to grow your career. We have opportunities that you won't find anywhere else, including hands-on experience, learning opportunities, and the chance to certify in all four major platforms. Whether you want to broaden your knowledge base or narrow your scope and specialize in a specific sector, you can find your opportunity here.
Who You Are
You're good at what you do and possess the required experience to prove it. However, equally as important - you have a growth mindset; keen to drive your own personal and professional development. You are customer-focused - someone who prioritizes customer success in their work. And finally, you're open and borderless - naturally inclusive in how you work with others.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
6+ years of hands-on experience in Mainframe Storage Administration, including work with GDPS environments
Strong experience with GDPS administration and IBM replication technologies including PPRC, Metro Mirror, Global Mirror and HyperSwap
Experience with cyber resiliency technologies and practices including Safeguarded Copy, Cyber Vault operations, CSM and Thin Provisioning
Advanced DFSMShsm administration experience, including troubleshooting, tuning and performance optimization
Hands-on experience with mainframe storage utilities such as ICKDSF, DFDSS, FDR, DSCLI and TDMF
Strong SMS administration experience, including storage configuration, troubleshooting and ACS routine management
Experience with FlashCopy, backup, recovery and point-in-time recovery capabilities
Experience supporting complex production storage environments, including capacity, performance, incident and resiliency requirements
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience
Experience administering IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape environments, including performance and utilization monitoring
Experience with IBM DS8000 storage systems, including configuration, migration, capacity planning and health monitoring
Experience using DSCLI and graphical storage-management tools
Experience with storage automation, monitoring and capacity-management technologies
Experience supporting high-priority storage incidents and collaborating with IBM or other technology vendors on complex technical issues
Being You
The "Kyn" in Kyndryl means kinship, which represents the strong bonds we have with each other, our customers and our communities. We focus on ensuring all Kyndryls feel included and we welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We believe in growth, and we're excited to see what you can bring. At Kyndryl, employee feedback has told us that our number one driver of employee engagement is belonging. That sense of belonging - being a valued, respected, trusted member of the team - is fundamental to our culture and fueling great experiences for our customers. This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you the ability to thrive and contribute to our culture of empathy and shared success. That's The Kyndryl Way.
What You Can Expect
Your career with us isn't just a job-it's an adventure with purpose. We offer a dynamic, hybrid-friendly culture that supports your well-being and empowers you to grow. Our Be Well programs are thoughtfully designed to support your financial, mental, physical, and social health-because we know that when you feel your best, you do your best.
From your very first day, you'll dive into impactful work that powers the systems our customers rely on every day. You won't just contribute-you'll make a difference, tackling meaningful projects that sharpen your skills and fuel your growth.
We're here to champion your journey. With powerful tools to chart your career path, personalized development goals aligned with your ambitions, and continuous feedback to keep you inspired and on track, you'll have everything you need to thrive and evolve. You'll develop in-demand skills to grow your career and achieve your ambitions with access to cutting-edge learning opportunities-from certifications with Microsoft, Google, and Amazon to coaching and hands-on experiences. And through it all, you'll be part of a culture that values empathy, restless learning, and a devotion to shared success.
We want you to thrive here-and we're committed to helping you do just that. Ready to make an impact? Join us and help shape what's next.
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