Hardware Engineer

• Serve as a senior technical leader for the Enterprise Z platform supporting critical business applications
• Drive execution across the full hardware lifecycle, from planning and installation through production support, refresh, and secure decommissioning
• Lead resiliency, security, automation, and AI adoption efforts
• Partner with engineering, operations, risk, audit, and vendors
• 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 enforce 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 from demand planning and procurement through refresh, secure sanitization, and disposal
• Lead hardware evaluations for major technology refreshes
• Drive cyber recovery and security improvements, including patch deployment, privileged access, encryption, and secure logging
• Maintain audit readiness through 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 AI adoption for certificate management, configuration analysis, patch assessment, change preparation, troubleshooting, and audit evidence collection
• Develop the team and maintain technical leadership coverage across the hardware portfolio and transformation work
• Work regular weekends for hardware installations, upgrades, migrations, decommissions, and scheduled maintenance windows
• Participate in an on-call escalation rotation and respond outside normal business hours to production incidents and escalations

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