Lead Mainframe Hardware Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Georgia.

📋 Description

• Act as a senior technical authority for the Enterprise Z platform, providing support for essential business applications.

• Oversee the execution of the entire hardware lifecycle, including planning, installation, production support, refresh, and secure decommissioning.

• Spearhead initiatives focused on resiliency, security, automation, and the adoption of AI technologies.

• Collaborate with engineering, operations, risk management, auditing, and vendor teams.

• Manage hardware installations, upgrades, migrations, and decommissions, ensuring site readiness, cabling, power, connectivity, scheduling, and change approvals are coordinated effectively.

• Supervise vendor teams, manage access, escalate issues as necessary, and enforce delivery timelines and service level agreements (SLAs).

• Ensure stability, resiliency, and SLA compliance across IBM Z processors, DASD, tape, SAN/FICON fabric, replication, consoles, and timing infrastructure.

• Take ownership of hardware lifecycle management, from demand planning and procurement to refresh, secure sanitization, and disposal.

• Conduct hardware evaluations for significant technology refresh initiatives.

• Drive improvements in cyber recovery and security measures, including patch deployment, privileged access management, encryption, and secure logging practices.

• Maintain readiness for audits through inventory management, end-of-life remediation, lifecycle documentation, change controls, and the secure handling of data-bearing assets.

• Enhance automation through API-based management, orchestrated workflows, and automated inventory reporting systems.

• Lead AI adoption efforts in areas such as certificate management, configuration analysis, patch assessment, change preparation, troubleshooting, and collection of audit evidence.

• Develop the team while ensuring technical leadership is maintained across the hardware portfolio and transformation projects.

• Work regularly on weekends for hardware installations, upgrades, migrations, decommissions, and during scheduled maintenance windows.

• Participate in an on-call escalation rotation and respond to production incidents and escalations outside of normal business hours.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in mainframe hardware engineering within a large, regulated environment.

• Strong understanding of IBM Z, DASD, tape, FICON/SAN, replication, and HMC/console infrastructure.

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex installations, HCD, migrations, and decommissions across diverse teams.

• Experience in managing major hardware vendors, service level agreements (SLAs), and escalations.

• Solid comprehension of infrastructure security, including encryption, privileged access, and patch management.

• Familiarity with change management, asset management, and audit processes.

• Excellent communication skills when engaging with senior management and non-technical stakeholders.

• Proven experience in leading and developing technical teams.

• Background in mainframe hardware installations and resiliency design.

• Experience managing Brocade SAN and FICON fabric.

• Practical experience with automation, APIs, scripting, or orchestration.

• Experience utilizing AI or GenAI tools for infrastructure or compliance-related tasks.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual discretionary incentive compensation award may be available.

• Relevant business unit incentive compensation plan may include a discretionary bonus component.

• Medical insurance.

• Prescription drug coverage.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Health Savings Account.

• Dependent Day Care Savings Account.

• Life insurance.

• Disability and other insurance plans.

• Paid Time Off, including sick leave, consistent with state and local law.

• Parental leave.

• 20 vacation days per year.

• 10 paid holidays.

• 401(k) plan.

• Short and long-term disability coverage.

• Additional special perks reserved for employees.

• Opportunities for internal mobility throughout the business.

• Supportive and empowering work environment.

• Diverse and inclusive workplace.