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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer - **Company:** National Westminster Bank - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, System Configuration, Disaster Recovery, IBM Parallel Sysplex, Python (Programming Language), Mainframes, Network Architecture, Scripting, Delivery Pipeline, Hardware Infrastructure - **Published:** August 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ede73b089a1a1b96 ## About the Role 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 ## 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 ## Related Videos - [".Net is too slow" was not an option](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100176-net-is-too-slow-was-not-an-option) - [Cloud as the new mainframe: why the cloud hype does not reflect the dev reality](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/797-cloud-as-the-new-mainframe-why-the-cloud-hype-does-not-reflect-the-dev-reality) - [ShapeShift: Reinventing Agile for a B2B SaaS Scale-Up](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1655-shapeshift-reinventing-agile-for-a-b2b-saas-scale-up) - [JavaScript? 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