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Staff Systems Engineer – Database Administrator (Remote)
Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req143848
Category – Technology
Apply By – 06/16/2025
Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req143848
Category – Technology
Apply By – 06/16/2025
Company Overview
What’s the best place we’ve ever built? The place where we work. At Home Depot, our goal is to provide the highest level of service, the broadest selection of products, and the most competitive prices. As the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer, we operate more than 2,200 retail stores across North America. And each of our associates are focused one thing — helping our customers build and improve their homes, businesses, and ultimately their lives.
Pay Range
The pay range for this position is between $90,000.00 – $190,000.00.
Starting wage may vary based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, the position being offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. The Home Depot offers additional competitive and non-financial benefits, which may include a performance-based bonus program or a profit sharing program depending on position.
Position Purpose:
The Staff Systems Engineer is responsible for leading a team of engineers designing, building, and supporting The Home Depot's technical infrastructure of hardware and system software that drives the success of Home Depot and our customers. As a Staff Systems Engineer you will be part of a dynamic team with engineers of all experience levels who help each other build and grow technical and leadership skills while creating, deploying, and supporting production infrastructure. Staff Systems Engineers contribute to foundational infrastructure as code elements that can be reused as well as architectural diagrams and other related documentation. Staff Systems Engineers participates in the selection and lead the implementation of physical and virtual infrastructure to meet evolving enterprise and product team needs. As a Staff Systems Engineer, you will be a core player that participates and leads multiple efforts simultaneously. You are expected to build and grow the skillsets of more junior Engineers on the team.
- Experience in z/OS ISPF, JCL, JES2, etc.
- Experience in z/OS DB2 administration, working with DDL, DML, DCL, DB2 commands, and SQL.
- Experience in the DB2 Utilities (i.e., COPY, QUIESCE, REPAIR, REORG, LOAD, etc.)
- Understand RACF Security
- Monitor instances for events and resolutions/escalations.
- Perform triage and troubleshooting database issues in timely manner.
- Experience in DB2 SQL and Q Replication.
- Develop scripting to automate DB2 administration tasks.
- Find opportunities to improve availability, reliability, and performance of DB2 databases.
- Proficient in Incident, Problem, and Change Management
- REXX development language knowledge to simplify/automate database administration activities.
- Broadcom Detector and Subsystem Analyzer experience.
- DB2 for z/OS v12+ experience.
- DB2 expertise for performance tuning.
- Experience managing large tablespaces.
- Endevor experience.
- On-call rotation.
Key Responsibilities:
- 25% Delivery and Execution – Leads configuration, debugging, and support for information technology solutions; Leads field and corporate rollouts of technology; Leads the stand up of necessary system software, hardware, and equipment (physical or virtual) to meet changing infrastructure needs; Creates and optimizes specifications for technology solutions; Produces and manages purchase requests for hardware and software; Leads development of test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable successful rapid deployment of infrastructure as code to production
- 15% Learning – Keeps abreast of innovations and industry trends as well as changes to internal systems and determines how they impacts tools, training, and support necessary to keep systems up, running, and secure; Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern systems engineering core practices (communities of practice); Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
- 30% Planning and Analysis – Researches and analyzes business trends and behavioral data to identify strategic opportunities for improvements and new initiatives; Leads the evaluation, development, and recommendation of specific strategic technology to provide cost-effective solutions that meet THD requirements; Researches and designs best fit infrastructure, network, database, cloud, AI, and security architectures for products; Proactively creates and maintains infrastructure as code and AI models for continuous improvement; Participates in strategic project planning and management across multiple efforts; Develops formal training courses
- 30% Support and Enablement – Collaborates with product and project teams to understand needs and enable them with infrastructure; Supports technology architecture design review efforts for project and product teams; Leverages tooling and custom applications to monitor the operational status of applications, infrastructure, networks, databases, and security; optimizes and tunes performance as appropriate; Drives root cause analysis, debugging, support, and post-mortem analysis for security incidents and service interruptions; Maintains, upgrades, and supports existing systems and infrastructure to ensure operational stability; Acts as a vendor liaison, owning resourcing, issue management, and documentation; Leads the production of in-house documentation around solutions; Provides application support for software running in production; Acts as a mentor to more junior Systems Engineers; Drives converting KB articles into AI models; Drives changes to analytic models used to analyze performance
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
- This position typically reports to Systems Engineer Manager or Sr Manager
- This position typically has 0 Direct Reports
Travel Requirements:
- No travel required.
Physical Requirements:
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3-6 years of relevant work experience
- Professional or educational experience in multiple Information Technology disciplines
- Proficiency in working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern engineering team
- Proficiency in troubleshooting and remediation within multiple Information technology disciplines
- Proficiency with debuggers, runtime analysis, library systems, compiled programming, and software update tools
- Proficiency in system and environment analysis, design, and optimization
- Exposure to developing technical roadmaps including work estimation, refactoring, and modernizing legacy systems
- Experience with object oriented programming languages (preferably Java), distributed computing environments, and code reviews
- Experience with system security design and management
- Experience with disaster recovery planning and engineering
- Proficiency in operating system commands and utilities as well as scripting
- Proficiency working with cloud platforms such as GCP and Azure
- Proficiency in supporting a 24×7 retail operation
- Proficiency with version control systems
- Proficiency with CI/CD toolchain
- Proficiency with production system designs including Infrastructure as Code, High Availability, and Performance monitoring
- Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Minimum Education:
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
- 3
Competencies:
- Action Oriented
- Being Resilient
- Business Insights
- Global Perspective
- Manages Ambiguity
- Nimble Learning
- Self-Development
- Collaborates
- Cultivates Innovation
- Optimizes Work Processes
- Situational Adaptability
- Communicates Effectively
- Drives Results
- Interpersonal Savvy
Apply By:
06/16/2025
Bonus Eligible
401(k) Company Matching
Employee Stock Purchase ProgramPaid Time Off Benefits
Salaried associates are eligible for 2 weeks of vacation in their first year; FT hourly will be eligible for 40 hours of paid vacation time after 6 months of continuous service; (for positions in Washington State, Spokane, and Tacoma only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater; (for positions in Seattle only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater.
Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req143848
Category – Technology
Apply By – 06/16/2025
Role Overview
Position Purpose:
The Staff Systems Engineer is responsible for leading a team of engineers designing, building, and supporting The Home Depot's technical infrastructure of hardware and system software that drives the success of Home Depot and our customers. As a Staff Systems Engineer you will be part of a dynamic team with engineers of all experience levels who help each other build and grow technical and leadership skills while creating, deploying, and supporting production infrastructure. Staff Systems Engineers contribute to foundational infrastructure as code elements that can be reused as well as architectural diagrams and other related documentation. Staff Systems Engineers participates in the selection and lead the implementation of physical and virtual infrastructure to meet evolving enterprise and product team needs. As a Staff Systems Engineer, you will be a core player that participates and leads multiple efforts simultaneously. You are expected to build and grow the skillsets of more junior Engineers on the team.
- Experience in z/OS ISPF, JCL, JES2, etc.
- Experience in z/OS DB2 administration, working with DDL, DML, DCL, DB2 commands, and SQL.
- Experience in the DB2 Utilities (i.e., COPY, QUIESCE, REPAIR, REORG, LOAD, etc.)
- Understand RACF Security
- Monitor instances for events and resolutions/escalations.
- Perform triage and troubleshooting database issues in timely manner.
- Experience in DB2 SQL and Q Replication.
- Develop scripting to automate DB2 administration tasks.
- Find opportunities to improve availability, reliability, and performance of DB2 databases.
- Proficient in Incident, Problem, and Change Management
- REXX development language knowledge to simplify/automate database administration activities.
- Broadcom Detector and Subsystem Analyzer experience.
- DB2 for z/OS v12+ experience.
- DB2 expertise for performance tuning.
- Experience managing large tablespaces.
- Endevor experience.
- On-call rotation.
Key Responsibilities:
- 25% Delivery and Execution – Leads configuration, debugging, and support for information technology solutions; Leads field and corporate rollouts of technology; Leads the stand up of necessary system software, hardware, and equipment (physical or virtual) to meet changing infrastructure needs; Creates and optimizes specifications for technology solutions; Produces and manages purchase requests for hardware and software; Leads development of test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable successful rapid deployment of infrastructure as code to production
- 15% Learning – Keeps abreast of innovations and industry trends as well as changes to internal systems and determines how they impacts tools, training, and support necessary to keep systems up, running, and secure; Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern systems engineering core practices (communities of practice); Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
- 30% Planning and Analysis – Researches and analyzes business trends and behavioral data to identify strategic opportunities for improvements and new initiatives; Leads the evaluation, development, and recommendation of specific strategic technology to provide cost-effective solutions that meet THD requirements; Researches and designs best fit infrastructure, network, database, cloud, AI, and security architectures for products; Proactively creates and maintains infrastructure as code and AI models for continuous improvement; Participates in strategic project planning and management across multiple efforts; Develops formal training courses
- 30% Support and Enablement – Collaborates with product and project teams to understand needs and enable them with infrastructure; Supports technology architecture design review efforts for project and product teams; Leverages tooling and custom applications to monitor the operational status of applications, infrastructure, networks, databases, and security; optimizes and tunes performance as appropriate; Drives root cause analysis, debugging, support, and post-mortem analysis for security incidents and service interruptions; Maintains, upgrades, and supports existing systems and infrastructure to ensure operational stability; Acts as a vendor liaison, owning resourcing, issue management, and documentation; Leads the production of in-house documentation around solutions; Provides application support for software running in production; Acts as a mentor to more junior Systems Engineers; Drives converting KB articles into AI models; Drives changes to analytic models used to analyze performance
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
- This position typically reports to Systems Engineer Manager or Sr Manager
- This position typically has 0 Direct Reports
Travel Requirements:
- No travel required.
Physical Requirements:
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3-6 years of relevant work experience
- Professional or educational experience in multiple Information Technology disciplines
- Proficiency in working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern engineering team
- Proficiency in troubleshooting and remediation within multiple Information technology disciplines
- Proficiency with debuggers, runtime analysis, library systems, compiled programming, and software update tools
- Proficiency in system and environment analysis, design, and optimization
- Exposure to developing technical roadmaps including work estimation, refactoring, and modernizing legacy systems
- Experience with object oriented programming languages (preferably Java), distributed computing environments, and code reviews
- Experience with system security design and management
- Experience with disaster recovery planning and engineering
- Proficiency in operating system commands and utilities as well as scripting
- Proficiency working with cloud platforms such as GCP and Azure
- Proficiency in supporting a 24×7 retail operation
- Proficiency with version control systems
- Proficiency with CI/CD toolchain
- Proficiency with production system designs including Infrastructure as Code, High Availability, and Performance monitoring
- Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Minimum Education:
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
- 3
Competencies:
- Action Oriented
- Being Resilient
- Business Insights
- Global Perspective
- Manages Ambiguity
- Nimble Learning
- Self-Development
- Collaborates
- Cultivates Innovation
- Optimizes Work Processes
- Situational Adaptability
- Communicates Effectively
- Drives Results
- Interpersonal Savvy
Bonus Eligible401(k) Company MatchingEmployee Stock Purchase ProgramPaid Time Off Benefits
Salaried associates are eligible for 2 weeks of vacation in their first year; FT hourly will be eligible for 40 hours of paid vacation time after 6 months of continuous service; (for positions in Washington State, Spokane, and Tacoma only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater; (for positions in Seattle only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater.
Remote/virtual – An associate in a remote/virtual role typically is not required to work from a designated Home Depot location to complete their job duties. Limited or infrequent in-office presence may be required. We also refer to this as location – independent.
Learn more about our 4 different work locations. Additional information will be provided during the application process.
As part of the application process for this role, there will be an on-line assessment. The assessment usually takes about 17 minutes to complete. You will be directed to the assessment link immediately after submitting your application. Once you click on the link, you will need to complete it within 72 hours after starting it. You may stop and restart the assessment as many times as you like within the 72-hour time frame.
During the assessment, we’ll ask you questions about your approach to work and various work-related situations. The questions are based on characteristics that are related to performing successfully in hourly roles at The Home Depot, including:
- Professional Experience
- Learning Potential
- Responsibility
- Customer Focus
If you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation related to the assessment, or you would like to obtain more information about the assessment, click here to learn more.
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Tuition Reimbursement
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