Lead Mainframe Hardware Engineer
About The Position
This is a senior technical leadership role for the Enterprise Z platform, which supports the firm's critical business applications. The role leads execution across the full hardware lifecycle, including planning, installation, production support, refresh, secure decommissioning, and disposal. It also helps advance resiliency, security, automation, and AI adoption, in partnership with engineering, operations, risk, audit, and vendors. The position requires regular weekend work for hardware installations, upgrades, migrations, decommissions, and scheduled maintenance windows. The engineer also participates in an on-call escalation rotation and must be available outside normal business hours to respond to production incidents and escalations. The role is identified as a Lead Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering position at Vice President level within the Technology division. Morgan Stanley describes its work as supporting clients and colleagues through technology and infrastructure, and highlights collaboration, inclusion, employee development, and a comprehensive range of benefits.
Requirements
- 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 Haves
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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 service-level agreements.
- 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, 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, including 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.
- Perform regular weekend work for installations, upgrades, migrations, decommissions, and scheduled maintenance windows.
- Participate in an on-call escalation rotation and respond to production incidents and escalations outside normal business hours.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Prescription drug coverage
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Dependent Day Care Savings Account
- Life insurance
- Disability and other insurance plans
- Paid time off, including sick leave consistent with state and local law
- Parental leave
- 20 vacation days annually
- 10 paid holidays
- 401(k)
- Short- and long-term disability
- Other employee perks
- Potential annual discretionary incentive compensation award
- Potential participation in a business unit incentive compensation plan, which may include a discretionary bonus component
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
