Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer

National Westminster Bank
London, UK
8 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Agile Methodology System Configuration Disaster Recovery IBM Parallel Sysplex Python (Programming Language) Mainframes Network Architecture Scripting Delivery Pipeline Hardware Infrastructure

Job description

  • You’ll collaborate in building the best possible hardware solutions for the Mainframe environment and engineer infrastructure technology to comply with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements with observability and guardrails built in
  • Improve our products as you apply automation to provide testing and a route to live
  • This is your chance to share thought leadership and best practice across the bank, while you’re developing solutions

What you’ll do

As an Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, strategic targets and architecture outcomes, along with developing products using modern engineering practices and tools.

We’ll look to you to collaborate with Product Owners to develop product roadmaps and manage the lifecycle of the team’s products and support engineered products to respond to customer feedback, new feature requests, resolve production issues and help customers consume our products.

You’ll also:

  • Take a lead role within a team to design and engineer intuitive, self-service infrastructure products
  • Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development
  • Contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions
  • Build an awareness of design thinking tools and techniques with users in order to improve your product
  • Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues
  • Work with key vendors in the delivery of the infrastructure services and technology for the product

Requirements

To thrive in this role, you’ll have experience in Mainframe Infrastructure support, Mainframe hardware configuration and automation scripting such as Python or Shell. You’ll also have experience in utilizing modern infrastructure as code via tooling.

We’ll expect you to bring a good understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets with the ability to create the vision for the Release Train, feature team, platform and domain

In addition, you’ll have:

  • Experience of designing and configuring Mainframe Hardware solutions including DASD, SAN/FICON connectivity and network infrastructure
  • Experience of planning and delivering hardware migrations between different generations of IBM z Mainframes
  • Strong understanding of GDPS architectures and operations, including processor management, DASD replication and Disaster Recovery automation
  • Technical leadership experience and subject matter expertise
  • Experience of the development of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling
  • Experience in testing practices and tools and in using observability tools and techniques with the ability to use data, information and user sentiment to continuously improve solutions
  • Experience of working with technology deployed to an on premise datacentre

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Annual leave
  • Company pension, Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.

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Your pay package

100% Base pay This is your base pay package that you take home every month.

+10% Pension funding This is monthly funding paid towards your pension.

up to +10% Benefit funding This is monthly funding paid towards a range of benefits you can choose from.

Your leave allowance

30 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.

3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about.

3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.

About the company

Bishopsgate recently underwent a multi-year refurbishment programme to improve spaces and facilities as well as become more sustainable.

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