Staff Systems Mainframe Engineer

🕒 July 21

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $90k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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The Home Depot

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1978

🏗️ Construction

📦 Logistics

🛒 Retail

💰 Debt Financing on 2007-07

Construction • Logistics • Retail

The Home Depot is a leading home improvement retailer, offering a wide range of building materials, home improvement products, lawn and garden products, and related services. The company operates both physical stores and an online platform, providing comprehensive solutions for DIY enthusiasts, professional contractors, and homeowners. The Home Depot is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, providing employment opportunities and benefits to a diverse workforce. Additionally, the company places a high emphasis on customer service and associate engagement to maintain its position as a trusted leader in the home improvement industry.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of engineers designing, building, and supporting The Home Depot's technical infrastructure • Ensure reliability, performance, and security of the enterprise z/OS mainframe environment • Install, configure, tune, and maintain z/OS and ISV products • Lead configuration, debugging, and support for information technology solutions • Lead technology rollouts and stand up required system software, hardware, and equipment • Create and optimize technology solution specifications • Manage hardware and software purchase requests • Lead development of functional and destructive test suites for infrastructure-as-code deployment • Research technology innovations, industry trends, internal systems, and support requirements • Evaluate, develop, and recommend strategic technology solutions • Design infrastructure, network, database, cloud, AI, and security architectures • Create and maintain infrastructure as code and AI models • Participate in strategic project planning and management • Develop formal training courses • Collaborate with product and project teams to enable infrastructure solutions • Support technology architecture design reviews • Monitor applications, infrastructure, networks, databases, and security; optimize and tune performance • Drive root cause analysis, debugging, support, and post-mortem analysis for security incidents and service interruptions • Maintain, upgrade, and support systems and infrastructure • Act as vendor liaison for resourcing, issue management, and documentation • Produce in-house solution documentation • Provide production application support • Mentor junior Systems Engineers • Convert knowledge-base articles into AI models • Drive changes to analytic models used to analyze performance

🎯 Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older • Must be legally permitted to work in the United States • Minimum 8 years of work experience • 8+ years supporting production enterprise z/OS mainframe infrastructure • Core z/OS systems programming: base control program, JES2/JES3, JCL, IPL, JES2 commands, and batch management • Hands-on experience with SMP/E for product installation and maintenance • z/Architecture hardware experience across z13 / z14 / z15 / z16 • Parallel Sysplex / High Availability: Sysplex Distributor, Coupling Facility, GRS, and WLM • HCD / HCM administration of IODF / IOCDS / IOCP • Workload automation and scheduling: CA-7 / CA-11, AutoOps and/or OPS/MVS, and ThruPut Manager or equivalent • Mainframe networking: TCP/IP, VTAM, NFS, SAN (FCIP), Fibre Channel, and FICON connectivity • Security administration: RACF and/or ACF2, digital certificates and keyrings, Vanguard, Imperva, zSecure, and ICSF cryptography • Performance, capacity, and monitoring: RMF/SMF analysis, OMEGAMON and/or MAINVIEW • Scripting and customization: REXX, CLIST, system utilities, and exit routines • zOSMF (z/OS Management Facility) • Ability to document platforms and cross-train peers to reduce single-person dependencies • Diagnostics/problem determination: Debug Tool for z/OS, Fault Analyzer, and IPCS/GTF • Output management: Deliver, View, and spool/print operations • BCV4 (ESAI) or comparable replication/copy tooling • z/VM operating system exposure • DB2 for z/OS administration, DB2 utilities / IBM Admin Tool, DB2 Connect, DPROPR, SQL, SPUFI, and QMF • DB2 specialty tooling: Insight for DB2, RC/Migrator, RC/Compare, Log Analyzer, Subsystem Analyzer, and Plan Analyzer • Middleware: MQ Series / IBM MQ support • Modernization/configuration management: Ansible, Zowe, and Python • Bachelor's degree or equivalent degree in a related field

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote/Virtual work arrangement • No travel required • Comfortable indoor working conditions • Frequent opportunity to move about while working • Career opportunities at The Home Depot