Lead Mainframe Hardware Engineer

Overview

Lead Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering position at Vice President level, serving as a senior technical leader for the Enterprise Z platform that supports the firm's critical business applications.

What you'll do

• Coordinate hardware installations, upgrades, migrations, and decommissions, including site readiness, cabling, power, connectivity, schedules, and change approvals.
• Manage vendor teams and access, escalate issues, and hold vendors accountable for delivery and SLAs.
• Maintain stability, resiliency, and SLA delivery across IBM Z processors, DASD, tape, SAN/FICON fabric, replication, consoles, and timing infrastructure.
• Own hardware lifecycle execution end to end, from demand planning and procurement through refresh, secure sanitization, and disposal.
• Lead hardware evaluations for major technology refreshes, covering engineering, security, encryption, capacity, and installation planning.
• Drive cyber recovery and security improvements, including patch deployment, privileged access, encryption, and secure logging.
• Keep the environment audit-ready through accurate inventory, end-of-life remediation, lifecycle evidence, change controls, and secure handling of data-bearing assets.
• Expand automation through API-based management, orchestrated workflows, and automated inventory reporting.
• Lead the team's AI adoption for hardware work such as certificate management, configuration analysis, patch assessment, change preparation, troubleshooting, and audit evidence collection.
• Develop the team and keep technical leadership coverage in place across the hardware portfolio and transformation work.

What you'll need

• Extensive mainframe hardware engineering experience in a large, regulated environment.
• Strong knowledge of IBM Z, DASD, Tape, FICON/SAN, Replication, and HMC/console infrastructure.
• Proven record leading complex installations, HCD, migrations, and decommissions across many teams.
• Experience managing major hardware vendors, SLAs, and escalations.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure security, including encryption, privileged access, and patch management.
• Experience with change management, asset management, and audits.
• Strong communication skills with senior management and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience leading and developing technical staff.

Nice to have

• Experience with mainframe hardware installations and resiliency design.
• Experience managing Brocade SAN and FICON fabric.
• Hands-on experience with automation, APIs, scripting, or orchestration.
• Experience applying AI or GenAI tools to infrastructure or compliance work.

Details

• Requires regular weekend work to support hardware installations, upgrades, migrations, decommissions, and scheduled maintenance windows.
• Participation in an on-call escalation rotation; must be available outside normal business hours to respond to production incidents and escalations.
• Application window expected to close 12/31/2026.