Staff Systems Engineer: Mainframe MQ/CICS Lead

The Home Depot; Texas; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is hiring a Staff Systems Engineer to lead a team that designs, builds, and supports our technical infrastructure. You will drive infrastructure as code, guide production deployments, and mentor junior engineers to grow technical and leadership skills.

You will collaborate with product teams to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure across hardware, software, and cloud environments, while advancing automation and AI-driven improvements in our operations.

Qualifications

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• 3–6 years of relevant work experience.
• Professional or educational experience in multiple Information Technology disciplines.
• Proficiency in troubleshooting and remediation across IT disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Leads delivery and execution of IT solutions, field and corporate rollouts, and infrastructure deployments.
• Keeps abreast of industry trends and internal system changes to ensure security and reliability.
• Researches and designs infrastructure architectures for products, including cloud, network, and security.
• Mentors junior engineers and drives incident response, post-mortems, and knowledge base improvements.

Skills

Infrastructure as code

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional collaboration

Software debugging

AI model development

Tools

Debuggers

Runtime analysis

Library systems

Software update tools

Job description

The Home Depot is hiring a Staff Systems Engineer to lead a team that designs, builds, and supports our technical infrastructure. You will drive infrastructure as code, guide production deployments, and mentor junior engineers to grow technical and leadership skills.

You will collaborate with product teams to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure across hardware, software, and cloud environments, while advancing automation and AI-driven improvements in our operations.