Principal Infrastructure Engineer

About this role: 

Wells Fargo is seeking a talented Principal Engineer with experience managing enterprise-class virtualization platforms, server engineering, and automating related on-premises hosting services. In this role you will be tasked as a technical leader to guide multiple teams of engineers to automate and modernize our compute platform. 

 
In this role, you will: 

• Lead 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, applications and technical infrastructure requirements 
• Drive solutions to reduce recovery time of outages 
• Review and analyze solutions for security, secrets management and key rotations 
• Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices 
• Design and automate complex system upgrades using best practices 
• Identify and 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 
• Collaborate with product owners to develop a comprehensive roadmap for products and services being offered 
• Collaborate with peers to define and prioritize backlogs 
• Collaborate across teams and departments to align technical efforts with goals 
• Make recommendations to leadership concerning priority of deliverables 
• Partner with vendors to evaluate new product offerings 
• Make recommendations to management on vendor product offerings 
• Influence technical culture and promote best practices, quality, and efficient execution 
• Mediate technical conflicts to resolve complex escalations 
• Analyze and make recommendations of capacity needs for the infrastructure 
• Serve as a subject matter expert for all product offerings and services 
• Provide high-level architectural decisions and establish technical standards 
• Identify opportunities to reuse technology avoiding duplication 
• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences 
• Participate in hiring and building high-performing engineering teams 
• Mentor, train, and foster growth within the engineering teams 
• Oversee the technical aspects of projects from conception to completion, ensuring quality and alignment with goals. 

 Required Qualifications: 

• 7+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 
• 7+ years of Distributed Infrastructure and/or related IT Infrastructure experience 
• 7+ years of experience working with products related to the Automation of Virtualization, Server Infrastructure, Converged/Hyper-Converged hosting. 

Desired Qualifications: 

• Experience with Hypervisors: VMware, Nutanix, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 
• Experience with software defined networks and load balancers: NSX, AVI 
• Experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift container platforms 
• Experience with public cloud infrastructure: AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure 
• 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 a