Lead Systems Operations Engineer

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Infrastructure Engineer who overs jobs which design, build, enhance, and integrate the technology infrastructure required to support various platforms and Wells Fargo's business portfolio.
In this role, you will:

• Lead or participate in high level technical concepts spanning technology and business
• Develop specifications for complex infrastructure systems, design and test solutions
• Contribute to the testing of business, application and technical infrastructure requirements
• Drive solutions to reduce recovery
• Review and analyze solutions for cloud security, secrets management and key rotations
• Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices
• Design complex system upgrades
• Resolve troublesome trends as they develop
• Develop a long range plan designed to resolve problems and prevent them from recurring
• Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 2+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Ansible
• 2+ years of experience applying GitOps principles and working with tools such as ArgoCD or Flux
• 2+ years of experience designing, consuming, or integrating RESTful APIs as part of infrastructure automation with languages such as Go, C#, Java, or Python
• 1+ years of experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads

Desired Qualifications:

• Exposure to Crossplane or other control plane abstraction technologies
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
• Experience supporting cloud-native application platforms or platform engineering initiatives
• Experience working with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack
• Understanding of security best practices in cloud and infrastructure automation contexts
• A strong engineering mindset with attention to code quality, maintainability, and automation

Job Expectations:

• Telecommuting is not an option for this position
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• Relocation assistance in not available for this position
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship

Posting End Date:
15 May 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
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