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Principal Systems - Mainframe Storage Engineer

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In-Office
Charlotte, NC, USA
120K-141K Annually
Senior level
In-Office
Charlotte, NC, USA
120K-141K Annually
Senior level
Designs, administers, and optimizes IBM z/OS storage infrastructure, including DASD and virtual tape platforms. Manages replication, disaster recovery, GDPS recovery environments, backup, cyber resiliency, capacity planning, performance optimization, and data lifecycle policies. Develops automation and monitoring solutions, troubleshoots complex storage issues, supports resiliency testing, and collaborates with infrastructure, application, operations, engineering, and vendor teams on modernization and continuous improvement.
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At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed.  We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description
Responsibilities
  • Design, implement, administer, and optimize IBM z/OS storage environments, including IBM DS8000 DASD and IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape platforms.
  • Manage storage replication, business continuity, and disaster recovery solutions, ensuring high availability and resiliency across critical mainframe environments.
  • Administer DFSMS technologies, including SMS, DFHSM, ICF Catalogs, storage groups, and policy-based data management.
  • Perform capacity planning, utilization forecasting, growth analysis, and storage performance optimization to support enterprise workloads.
  • Support GDPS-enabled recovery environments through testing, validation, failover exercises, and resiliency planning.
  • Implement and maintain backup, recovery, cyber resiliency, Safeguarded Copy, and data protection solutions to meet operational and regulatory requirements.
  • Develop automation, scripting, monitoring, and reporting solutions that improve operational efficiency, service reliability, and risk management.
  • Collaborate with engineering, application, infrastructure, operations, and vendor teams to troubleshoot complex storage issues, support modernization initiatives, and drive continuous improvement.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
- At least 7 years of experience within a total information technology (IT) environment
- At least 7 years of experience with the design, development and support of technology infrastructure
Skills & Qualifications
  • Strong expertise supporting IBM z/OS Storage Infrastructure.
  • Experience with Enterprise Storage Arrays (IBM, Dell EMC, Hitachi, Pure, NetApp, HPE, etc.).
  • Exposure to Storage Replication and Disaster Recovery technologies.
  • Experience with Virtualization, Cloud Infrastructure (AWS/Azure), or Hybrid Platforms.
  • Knowledge of Data Lifecycle Management and storage governance.(DFSMS, including SMS, DFHSM, ICF Catalogs, storage groups, and automated data lifecycle management)
  • Experience with GDPS, storage replication technologies, high availability architectures, and enterprise disaster recovery solutions.
  • Strong understanding of backup, recovery, cyber resiliency, Safeguarded Copy, and data protection best practices.
  • Proven ability to perform capacity planning, storage forecasting, utilization analysis, and performance tuning in large-scale environments.
  • Experience developing automation, scripting, monitoring, and reporting solutions to streamline storage operations.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills with expertise in incident management, root cause analysis, problem resolution, and production support.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to create technical documentation, operational procedures, architecture standards, and leadership-ready updates.

Location expectations 
This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

  • Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

  • Basic term and optional term life insurance

  • Short-term and long-term disability

  • Pregnancy disability and parental leave

  • 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

  • Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

  • Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

  • Adoption assistance

  • Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $119,765.00 - $140,900.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

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