Staff Systems Engineer (Remote)

Home Depot

Georgia

Hybrid

USD 80,000 - 160,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to lead a team designing, building, and supporting our production infrastructure. You will drive infrastructure as code, create architectural diagrams, and mentor junior engineers while coordinating cross-team initiatives.

You will participate in selecting and implementing physical and virtual infrastructure, ensuring scalable, secure, and reliable operations across enterprise needs. Strong collaboration with product teams is essential.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related field.
Minimum 3 years of work experience.
Experience in z/OS environment and DB2 for z/OS.
Proficiency with DB2 SQL and utilities.

Responsibilities

Leads design, build, and support of infrastructure hardware and system software.
Guides deployment and operation of infrastructure as code.
Participates in architecture reviews and documentation.
Mentors junior engineers and leads multiple efforts.

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related field

Tools

z/OS ISPF

JCL

JES2

DB2 for z/OS

DB2 SQL

DB2 Utilities

Rexx

Endevor

Broadcom Detector and Subsystem Analyzer

DB2 for z/OS v12+

Job description

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

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 tune 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: