Mainframe Hardware Support Specialist

Boyers, PA

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Work you’ll do

Deloitte is looking for a Mainframe Hardware Support Specialist to support our client in Boyers, Pennsylvania. Responsibilities will include:

a. Research, evaluate and document the impacts and risks to hardware changes before change implementations are performed.
b. Plan, design, and document installation drawings and configurations.
c. Plan, design, configure, document IBM Mainframe attached storage including Redundant Array of Independent Drives (RAID) Technology Storage Products, Automated/Robotic and Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Systems and FICON.
d. Develop, plan, evaluate, and document cable configurations to include cable diagrams, existing cabling plant, available channeling to include FICON Director and Controller ports and configuration diagrams.
e. Provide support for cable configurations to include pulling cables, existing cabling plant, available channeling to include FICON Director and Controller ports and configuration diagrams.
f. Research, create, review, document, and present channel and device activity reports to ensure optimum use.
g. Research, document, and provide written/oral problem analysis and problem resolution to aid in the identification and resolution of hardware problems.
h. Research, evaluate, create and document air-conditioning requirements 
i. Research, plan, document, and deliver channel requirements, environmental requirements to include power, floor tiles, and controller requirements for physical location of systems.
j. Document and provide all schedules, plans, and research documents to the DoD for review and comment.
k. Research, plan, document, and deliver system outage requirements, down time system effects related to hardware upgrades and implementations. Document and deliver recommendations for availability of alternate devices, processes, or solutions to maximize system availability.

 

The team

Operations Transformation

Our Operations Transformation team focuses on transforming our clients’ core business operations. We advise, design, implement, and deploy solutions focused on “heart of the business” issues in specific sectors including Health Care, Banking & Securities, Insurance, and Energy & Resources. The type of work we provide to our clients includes Operations Excellence, Payment & Care Model Innovation and Emerging Business Models. 

 

Our clients seek a fresh perspective on how to create a flexible, innovative business model supported by a strong operations foundation. Professionals will use their deep sector knowledge and technical business operations consulting experience to take a more strategic view of our clients’ priorities, helping them to prepare for growth, embrace the digital agenda and maximize operational efficiency.

 

Qualifications

-Secret Clearance

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with IBM zSystem hardware platforms, storage devices, printers, channels, switches and their relational configurations and definitions including environmentals and requirements.

-IBM z/OS Mainframe

-Redundant Array Independent Disks (RAID)

 

How you’ll grow

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