Lead Systems ops engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead System Ops Engineer responsible for ensuring smooth system operations, driving release installations, and maintaining critical system documentation. Your role will involve participating in collaboration with cross-functional teams and contributing to successful deployments and effective monitoring.

In this role, you will:

• Lead, participate, and coordinate release installations

• Gather, submit, and follow through on SDLC release requirement documentation and approvals

• Coordinate validation and communication plans

• Develop and maintain detailed runbooks to support release processes and rollback strategies

• Collaborate with platform and development teams to implement robust alerting and monitoring strategies for each install

• Regularly review and improve monitoring dashboards and incident response procedures

• Review and analyze complex technical challenges, as well as escalated support issues related to core business solutions that require in depth evaluation of multiple factors, such as alternatives, enhancements, periodic systems reviews, or improvements to existing systems

• Coordinate with engineering team on change design requiring solid understanding of technical process controls or standards that influence and drive new initiatives

• Collaborate and consult with technical peers, colleagues, and mid to more experienced level managers to resolve systems support issues and achieve goals

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Systems Engineering, Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and release management processes

• Experience managing critical system flows and dependencies

• Ability to create clear, detailed documentation for critical workflows, installation steps, and runbooks

• Familiarity with alerting and monitoring tools a plus (example, Grafana, Splunk, etc)

• Service Now experience a plus

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Posting End Date: 

1 May 2025

*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.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

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