Staff Systems Engineer (Remote)

The Home Depot

Atlanta (GA)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

18 hours ago

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Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to lead a team responsible for designing, building, and supporting the company's enterprise infrastructure of hardware and system software that powers our stores and customer experiences.

You will collaborate with engineers across experience levels, develop infrastructure as code, contribute architectural diagrams and documentation, and drive deployments, reliability, and security while mentoring junior engineers.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
3+ years of work experience in systems engineering or relevant field.
Authorized to work in the United States.
Experience with mainframe DB2 for z/OS and related tooling is preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead delivery and execution of IT infrastructure solutions; oversee hardware and software deployments.
Plan and analyze architectural options for infrastructure including cloud, on-prem, and hybrid setups.
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code and documentation across multiple projects.
Provide support, debugging, and on-call rotation for production systems.

Skills

Incident management

Problem solving

Communication

Mentoring

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

z/OS ISPF/JCL/JES2

DB2 for z/OS

RACF

Endevor

DB2 Utilities

Q Replication

Job description

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