Staff Systems Engineer (Remote)

Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 80,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Home Depot seeks a Staff Systems Engineer to lead a team delivering and supporting hardware and system software for enterprise infrastructure. You will design, build, and operate production systems, create reusable IaC components, and document architectures and processes.

You will guide multi‑faceted initiatives across product and project teams, growing junior engineers and aligning with enterprise goals. You will evaluate technology choices, plan strategic improvements, and develop training

Qualifications

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related field.
• 3 years of work experience minimum.

Responsibilities

• Leads configuration, debugging, and support for IT solutions; handles field and corporate rollouts of technology and stand up of system software/hardware.
• Keeps abreast of industry trends and internal changes to ensure tools and training support operational systems.
• Researches and designs infrastructure architectures for products across network, cloud, database, AI, and security domains; maintains infrastructure as code and AI models.
• Collaborates with product teams to enable infrastructure, performs post-mortem analyses, and mentors junior engineers.

Skills

Action Oriented

Being Resilient

Business Insights

Global Perspective

Manages Ambiguity

Nimble Learning

Self-Development

Collaborates

Cultivates Innovation

Optimizes Work Processes

Situational Adaptability

Communicates Effectively

Drives Results

Interpersonal Savvy

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

z/OS ISPF/JCL

DB2 for z/OS

Endevor

Rexx

Broadcom Detector

DB2 SQL

Job description

Position Purpose:

The Staff Systems Engineer is responsible for leading a team of engineers designing, building, and supporting The Home Depot's technical infrastructure of hardware and system software that drives the success of Home Depot and our customers. As a Staff Systems Engineer you will be part of a dynamic team with engineers of all experience levels who help each other build and grow technical and leadership skills while creating, deploying, and supporting production infrastructure. Staff Systems Engineers contribute to foundational infrastructure as code elements that can be reused as well as architectural diagrams and other related documentation. Staff Systems Engineers participates in the selection and lead the implementation of physical and virtual infrastructure to meet evolving enterprise and product team needs. As a Staff Systems Engineer, you will be a core player that participates and leads multiple efforts simultaneously. You are expected to build and grow the skillsets of more junior Engineers on the team.

Key Responsibilities:

• 25% Delivery and Execution - Leads configuration, debugging, and support for information technology solutions; Leads field and corporate rollouts of technology; Leads the stand up of necessary system software, hardware, and equipment (physical or virtual) to meet changing infrastructure needs; Creates and optimizes specifications for technology solutions; Produces and manages purchase requests for hardware and software; Leads development of test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable successful rapid deployment of infrastructure as code to production

• 15% Learning - Keeps abreast of innovations and industry trends as well as changes to internal systems and determines how they impacts tools, training, and support necessary to keep systems up, running, and secure; Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern systems engineering core practices (communities of practice); Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations

• 30% Planning and Analysis - Researches and analyzes business trends and behavioral data to identify strategic opportunities for improvements and new initiatives; Leads the evaluation, development, and recommendation of specific strategic technology to provide cost-effective solutions that meet THD requirements; Researches and designs best fit infrastructure, network, database, cloud, AI, and security architectures for products; Proactively creates and maintains infrastructure as code and AI models for continuous improvement; Participates in strategic project planning and management across multiple efforts; Develops formal training courses

• 30% Support and Enablement - Collaborates with product and project teams to understand needs and enable them with infrastructure; Supports technology architecture design review efforts for project and product teams; Leverages tooling and custom applications to monitor the operational status of applications, infrastructure, networks, databases, and security; optimizes and tunes performance as appropriate; Drives root cause analysis, debugging, support, and post-mortem analysis for security incidents and service interruptions; Maintains, upgrades, and supports existing systems and infrastructure to ensure operational stability; Acts as a vendor liaison, owning resourcing, issue management, and documentation; Leads the production of in-house documentation around solutions; Provides application support for software running in production; Acts as a mentor to more junior Systems Engineers; Drives converting KB articles into AI models; Drives changes to analytic models used to analyze performance

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position typically reports to Systems Engineer Manager or Sr Manager

• This position typically has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• No travel required.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in z/OS ISPF, JCL, JES2, etc.

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

• Experience in the DB2 Utilities (i.e., COPY, QUIESCE, REPAIR, REORG, LOAD, etc.)

• Understand RACF Security

• Monitor instances for events and resolutions/escalations.

• Perform triage and troubleshooting database issues in timely manner.

• Experience in DB2 SQL and Q Replication

• Develop scripting to automate DB2 administration tasks.

• Comfortable in finding opportunities to improve availability, reliability, and performance of DB2 databases.

• Proficient in Incident, Problem, and Change Management

• REXX development language knowledge to simplify/automate database administration activities.

• Broadcom Detector and Subsystem Analyzer experience.

• DB2 for z/OS v12+ experience.

• DB2 expertise for performance tuning.

• Experience managing large tablespaces.

• Endevor experience.

• On-call rotation.

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 3

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Action Oriented

• Being Resilient

• Business Insights

• Global Perspective

• Manages Ambiguity

• Nimble Learning

• Self-Development

• Collaborates

• Cultivates Innovation

• Optimizes Work Processes

• Situational Adaptability

• Communicates Effectively

• Drives Results

• Interpersonal Savvy

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

• $80,000.00 - $160,000.00