Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Wells Fargo
About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a talented Lead Infrastructure Engineer with experience managing enterprise-class virtualization platforms, server engineering, and related on-premises hosting services.
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:
- 5+ 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
- 5+ years of Distributed Infrastructure and/or related IT Infrastructure experience
- 5+ years of experience working with products related to Virtualization, Server Infrastructure, Converged/Hyper-Converged hosting
- 2+ years’ experience using Microsoft Azure with a proclivity in Azure Virtual Machines, including Virtual Machine Scale Sets
- 1+ years’ experience using HashiCorp Terraform
- 1+ years’ experience using GitOps or similar development/infrastructure deployment practices
- 1+ years’ experience identifying and applying security best practices.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with Hypervisors: VMware, Nutanix
- Scripting and/or automation experience: Python, Ansible, PowerShell
- Operating Systems Knowledge: Windows, Linux
- Experience leading or supporting the design, evaluation, and implementation of complex infrastructure hosting solutions and capabilities.
- Experience working in agile product teams in a highly regulated financial services industry.
- Experience with converged and/or hyper-converged infrastructure solutions at-scale in a large enterprise.
- Experience with virtualization and virtual hosting technologies and administration.
- Experience mentoring high-performing engineers.
- Experience with taking software/hardware products and services from inception to customer delivery.
- Proven experience transforming to and/or managing infrastructure functions in a product model construct, which would include participation in product roadmap planning and feature/backlog prioritization.
- Languages: Python, bash, PowerShell and integrating with API’s
- Skills around automation to include familiarity with VMWare Aria/VRA, Nutanix Calm, Ansible, and similar.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code delivery and management.
- Familiarity with Cloud hosting concepts and operating models.
- Expert knowledge and understanding of technologies related to infrastructure engineering.
- Ability to help remediate tough technical support issues.
- Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of team on multiple overlapping projects.
- Ability to operate effectively in a geographically dispersed organization.
- Customer focused, service-oriented attitude.
- Experience with the following Azure services and resources (e.g. Groups, Monitoring, including Data Collection Rules, Log Analytics Workspaces, Policy, Azure Networking, including Virtual Networks (Hub and Spoke), Subnets, Network Security Groups, and Entra ID)
- Experience using Grafana Enterprise to review or create custom dashboards
- Experience using Terraform Compliance or writing Test Frameworks
- Experience writing and reviewing user documentation in Confluence, ServiceNow KB, or similar.
Job Expectations:
- This position offers a hybrid work schedule
- This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.
Pay Range
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.
$119,000.00 - $224,000.00Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.
- Health benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid time off
- Disability benefits
- Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
- Parental leave
- Critical caregiving leave
- Discounts and savings
- Commuter benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Scholarships for dependent children
- Adoption reimbursement
Posting End Date:
13 Jan 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.
Applicants with Disabilities
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Drug and Alcohol Policy
Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.
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