Lead Mainframe Hardware Engineer

Provide senior technical leadership for mainframe hardware supporting critical business applications in a large, regulated environment. The role oversees the hardware lifecycle from planning and procurement through installation, production support, refresh, and secure retirement, while advancing resiliency, security, automation, and responsible AI use.

• Coordinate installations, upgrades, migrations, and decommissions, covering site readiness, cabling, power, connectivity, schedules, and change approvals.
• Maintain stability, resiliency, and service levels across processors, storage, tape, fabric, replication, consoles, and timing infrastructure.
• Lead lifecycle planning, procurement, technology evaluations, refreshes, secure sanitization, and disposal of data-bearing equipment.
• Manage vendor teams, access, delivery issues, service commitments, and escalations.
• Improve security and recovery through patching, encryption, privileged access, secure logging, and audit-ready inventory and lifecycle evidence.
• Expand API-based automation and guide the team’s use of AI for configuration analysis, change preparation, troubleshooting, and compliance evidence.

• Extensive mainframe hardware engineering experience in a large, regulated environment.
• Strong knowledge of IBM Z environments, storage and tape, FICON or SAN fabrics, replication, and hardware management consoles.
• Proven leadership of complex installations, configuration work, migrations, and decommissions involving multiple teams.
• Experience managing major hardware vendors, service levels, and escalations.
• Understanding of infrastructure security, change and asset management, and audit requirements.
• Strong communication with senior leaders and nontechnical partners, plus experience leading and developing technical staff.

• Mainframe hardware installation and resiliency design experience, including Brocade SAN or FICON fabric.
• Hands-on work with automation, APIs, scripting, or orchestration, or applying AI tools to infrastructure or compliance work.

• Regular weekend work is required for maintenance windows and hardware changes.
• Participation in an on-call escalation rotation requires availability outside normal business hours.