ITCC Tech Spec Resource Open Systems

ITCC Technical Specialist Resource Open Systems
JCPenney Home Office - Plano, TXJCPenney Information Technology Control Center has an immediate opening for an ITCC Technical Specialist - Resource Open Systems in Plano, Texas.Basic Function:Manages the day-to-day use of company resources in regards to storage mediums in the Open Systems environment, and ensures that sufficient media resources are available to meet production requirements and that the performance of those resources is within Company guidelines.Responsibilities:1. Effectively manages I/O resources in Open Systems to ensure performance and availability is achieved for company data processing equipment, and implements real-time changes when necessary.
2. Applies appropriate data management practices and policies to maintain company information.
3. Ensures migration implementation, conversions from outgoing hardware to new technology, and growth grid changes are achieved with minimal impact to clients.
4. Leverages new technologies to automate maintenance activity and to improve the performance and availability of company resources.
5. Configures resources to leverage latest tools and to correspond to application needs.
6. Assigns resources to support groups to support media growth requirements, and designs open system configurations to meet application requirements.
7. Reviews resource pools to enforce adherence to corporate media policy.
8. Maintains open system storage policies, and recommends specific storage solutions to meet exceptional performance needs of critical files.Qualifications:College degree or equivalent work experience is required.
A major in computer science is preferred. 6-8 year's data processing experience in a large, complex data processing environment.
Analytical and problem solving skills; Written and verbal communications; Ability to creatively adapt technology to meet the business needs.Experience in computer related field with significant backup, recovery and archival management experience using IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager system, AIX systems administration and SUN/STK 9840 tape library.In-depth knowledge of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) including installation, configuration and management of servers, tuning, performance analysis and capacity planning. Working knowledge of TDP for SQL and LAN Free backups.Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Excel, 3rd party management
tools, as well as dabase concepts.Project management skills
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