GDPS Consultant

Description

Title: GDPS Consultant

Location: REMOTE
Duration: 18+ Months
Client: IBM
Rate: $60-70/hr on C2C
Visa: Native US Citizen
Video Interviews
Experience required: - 15+ years of experience

LinkedIn is Must.

Job Description

We are looking for a GDPS Consultant who has implemented a GDPS solution and is skilled and experienced to guide, instruct, train, and educate clients and actually Lead a GDPS engagement. Our customers are inexperienced with GDPS and will look to the candidates as Experts in the GDPS technologies and the features and functionalities, the implementation and customization of the product GDPS, as well as education and training.

GDPS skilled consultants who has following skills:

DASD

• DSCLI understanding
• DSCLI Scripting
• carving a DS8K with pools, LSS's and Volumes
• Starting replication between sites- spreading across the IBM power devices within the DS8K
• resiliency on the DS8K - spreading connections so that all replication is not on one set of ports or cards within one I/O compartment for redundancy

z/OS

• PARMLIB changes
• PROCLIB changes
• CLIST and RACF updates and changes per customer requirements - DORA, FFIEC and NIST compliance is required with our product put into net-new LPARs
• minor updates throughout the sysplex
• sysplexing and how it is required for Metro Mirror and hyperswap capabilities.

NetView and System Automation (zSA)

• standing up netviews from a blank slate
• editing each netview environment for either Metro Mirror or Global mirror within the DSIPARM and STGEN members
• REXX coding specifics for customer requirements.
• Policy Data Base (PDB) creation and management. Creating a PDB that GDPS requires to function properly, with the required automation operators that are needed
• dual control and required security parameters - including focusing on the initial commands each has to avoid outages like a major client incurred last fall.

GDPS Training and Education

• Provide extensive training to various client teams, management, operations, etc. Train extensively on the GDPS product, the functionality, and the customization in the client’s unique environment.

Pay: $60.00 - $70.00 per hour

Work Location: Remote