Senior Mainframe Hardware Architect & Automation Lead

ms; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ms is seeking a senior leader to provide end-to-end mainframe hardware direction in a large, regulated environment. You will own the hardware lifecycle from planning through secure retirement, driving resiliency, security, automation, and responsible AI use.

You will coordinate installations, migrations, decommissions, and manage vendor relationships while improving security and recovery. You will expand API-based automation and guide AI-assisted configuration and compliance activities.

Qualifications

• Extensive mainframe hardware engineering experience in a large, regulated environment.
• Strong knowledge of IBM Z environments, storage and tape, FICON or SAN fabrics, replication, and hardware management consoles.
• Proven leadership of complex installations, configuration work, migrations, and decommissions involving multiple teams.
• Experience managing major hardware vendors, service levels, and escalations.
• Understanding of infrastructure security, change and asset management, and audit requirements.
• Strong communication with senior leaders and nontechnical partners, plus experience leading and developing technical staff.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate installations, upgrades, migrations, and decommissions, covering site readiness, cabling, power, connectivity, schedules, and change approvals.
• Maintain stability, resiliency, and service levels across processors, storage, tape, fabric, replication, consoles, and timing infrastructure.
• Lead lifecycle planning, procurement, technology evaluations, refreshes, secure sanitization, and disposal of data-bearing equipment.
• Manage vendor teams, access, delivery issues, service commitments, and escalations.
• Improve security and recovery through patching, encryption, privileged access, secure logging, and audit-ready inventory and lifecycle evidence.
• Expand API-based automation and guide the team’s use of AI for configuration analysis, change preparation, troubleshooting, and compliance evidence.

Skills

Mainframe hardware

IBM Z

FICON/SAN

Vendor management

Infrastructure security

Leadership

Tools

APIs

Scripting

Orchestration

Automation

Job description

ms is seeking a senior leader to provide end-to-end mainframe hardware direction in a large, regulated environment. You will own the hardware lifecycle from planning through secure retirement, driving resiliency, security, automation, and responsible AI use.

You will coordinate installations, migrations, decommissions, and manage vendor relationships while improving security and recovery. You will expand API-based automation and guide AI-assisted configuration and compliance activities.