Staff Systems Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Oversee a team of engineers responsible for the design, construction, and maintenance of The Home Depot’s technical hardware and system software infrastructure.

• Develop, implement, and maintain production infrastructure.

• Create reusable infrastructure-as-code components, architectural diagrams, and pertinent documentation.

• Engage in the selection and lead the implementation of both physical and virtual infrastructure.

• Guide the configuration, debugging, support, rollout, and deployment of technology solutions.

• Establish system software, hardware, and equipment to adapt to evolving infrastructure requirements.

• Formulate and enhance technology solution specifications.

• Generate and oversee hardware and software procurement requests.

• Direct the development of test suites for swift infrastructure-as-code deployment.

• Keep abreast of innovations, industry trends, and internal systems to ensure secure and operational systems.

• Analyze business trends and behavioral data to uncover strategic opportunities.

• Spearhead the evaluation and recommendation of strategic technology solutions.

• Research and design infrastructure, network, database, cloud, AI, and security architectures.

• Develop and sustain infrastructure as code and AI models.

• Engage in strategic project planning and management across multiple initiatives.

• Create formal training programs.

• Collaborate with product and project teams to facilitate infrastructure solutions.

• Support technology architecture design reviews.

• Monitor and enhance applications, infrastructure, networks, databases, and security.

• Conduct root-cause analysis, debugging, incident support, and post-mortem evaluations.

• Maintain, upgrade, and support existing systems and infrastructure.

• Act as a point of contact with vendors for resourcing, issue management, and documentation.

• Produce internal solution documentation.

• Provide support for production applications.

• Mentor junior Systems Engineers.

• Transform knowledge-base articles into AI models and enhance analytic performance models.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be at least eighteen years of age.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience.

• Familiarity with z/OS ISPF, JCL, and JES2.

• Experience with z/OS DB2 administration, including DDL, DML, DCL, DB2 commands, and SQL.

• Proficient with DB2 utilities like COPY, QUIESCE, REPAIR, REORG, and LOAD.

• Understanding of RACF Security Monitor instances, events, and related resolutions/escalations.

• Ability to promptly triage and troubleshoot database issues.

• Experience with DB2 SQL and Q Replication.

• Capability to create scripts for automating DB2 administrative tasks.

• Knowledge of Incident, Problem, and Change Management processes.

• Familiarity with the REXX development language.

• Experience with Broadcom Detector and Subsystem Analyzer.

• Experience with DB2 for z/OS version 12 or higher.

• Expertise in DB2 performance tuning.

• Experience managing large tablespaces.

• Familiarity with Endevor.

• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote/Virtual work arrangement.

• No travel required.

• Opportunity to enhance technical and leadership skills.

• Learning opportunities focused on modern systems engineering practices.

• Mentorship and development opportunities.