Senior Mainframe Storage and Backup Administrator

Location: Remote, USA; Clanton, Alabama, United States of America

Salary: $116,400–$194,000 annual USD

Company

M&T Bank is a banking organization offering financial services and supporting mission-critical enterprise technology workloads.

What you will do

• Manage IBM DS8000/DS8950F storage arrays and provision, allocate, tune, and troubleshoot storage for z/OS environments.
• Configure and support GDPS Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, and HyperSwap replication environments.
• Administer TS7700/TS7780 virtual tape systems, including Grid and Clustering, Safeguarded Copy, and data protection features.
• Design and maintain mainframe backup and recovery strategies, including retention schedules, recovery validation, disaster-recovery drills, and failover/failback simulations.
• Perform capacity planning, performance analysis, reporting, and operational automation using REXX, JCL, and scripting tools.
• Provide 24/7 on-call support, collaborate with system programmers and application and disaster-recovery teams, and mentor junior staff.

Requirements

• Minimum of 9 years of combined higher education and/or related work experience.
• Strong knowledge of IBM DS8000/DS8950F, GDPS replication solutions, and TS7700/TS7780 virtual tape systems.
• Expertise with CA Disk, CA Allocate, CA View/Deliver, and CA Vantage.
• Deep understanding of DFSMS, VSAM RLS, SMS constructs, DFP, enhanced-format datasets, and z/OS storage architecture.
• Proven experience planning and executing backup and recovery procedures, with strong problem-solving skills in high-availability environments.
• Availability for 24/7 on-call rotation, including off-hours and weekend production changes.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of hands-on mainframe storage administration experience in large-scale environments.
• Experience with Active-Active mainframe architectures, multi-data-center migrations, or CoLO transitions.
• Familiarity with z/OS, JES2, REXX, automation frameworks, and IBM or Broadcom certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, welfare, and retirement benefits.
• 401(k) match of 5%.
• Work-life balance and flexible work arrangements.
• 25 days of paid time off plus 12 paid holidays for Banking Officers.
• 40 hours of paid volunteer time per year.