Wells Fargo

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Wells Fargo$100K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions
  • 3+ years supporting enterprise mainframe environments (e.g., z/OS, CICS, DB2)
  • 3+ years in incident response, recovery management, and problem management
  • 3+ years proven ability to restore services during high-severity incidents
  • 3+ years evaluating change quality and risk controls

Responsibilities

  • Lead initiatives to develop infrastructure solutions for business applications
  • Participate in projects for infrastructure improvement or upgrades
  • Evaluate software solutions for architecture goals
  • Review high impact outages for improved future processing
  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain infrastructure solutions
  • Code, test, debug and document using Agile practices
  • Direct daily risk and control flow of operations

Benefits

  • Participate in a 24x7 operational support model
  • Lead major incident response calls for timely resolution
  • Enforce change discipline for production deployment
  • Ensure compliance with operational policies
  • Maintain documentation for audit validation
  • Collaborate with global teams for operational consistency
Full Job Description

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to support Mainframe Level 2 (L2) Operations within our Platform Front Line organization. This role is accountable for ensuring rapid, consistent recovery from production incidents and acting as a guardian of production stability, enforcing rigorous analysis and risk evaluation of all infrastructure changes prior to implementation.


In this role, you will:

  • Lead complex initiatives to develop infrastructure to provide solutions for business applications
  • Participate in various projects intended to continually improve or upgrade the infrastructure
  • Evaluate internal and external software solutions which could be leveraged to meet target state architecture goals
  • Review and analyze high impact outages to ensure the proper processes and procedures are in place to avoid problems in the future
  • Design, build, deploy and maintain infrastructure solutions through collaborative efforts with the team and third party vendors
  • Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices
  • Make decisions in technical designs, implementation plans and identify project risks and resource requirements
  • Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success
  • Recommend courses of action to maintain cost effectiveness and achieve results
  • Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
  • Interact with customer and vendor


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
  • 3+ year's experience supporting enterprise mainframe environments (e.g., z/OS, JES2, CICS, DB2, IMS or similar platforms)
  • 3+ year's experience with strong experience in incident response, recovery management, and problem management disciplines
  • 3+ year's experience with a Demonstrated ability to restore services quickly and consistently during high-severity incidents
  • 3+ year's experience evaluating and enforcing change quality, risk controls, and operational readiness criteria
  • 3+ year's experience with proven ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues in high-availability environments


Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience in Mainframe L2 Operations or Production Support leadership roles
  • Knowledge of change governance and pre-implementation risk assessment practices
  • Experience with automation or scripting to improve recovery time and reduce manual effort (REXX, Python or equivalent)
  • Familiarity with enterprise monitoring, alerting, and incident management platforms
  • Experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical financial services environments
  • Strong ability to drive root cause analysis and sustained remediation of systemic issues
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to lead during high-pressure incident situations


Job Expectations:

  • Participate in a 24x7 operational support model, including on-call rotation
  • Lead and support major incident response calls, ensuring timely resolution and clear communication
  • Enforce change discipline, validating readiness and risk mitigation before production deployment
  • Ensure compliance with enterprise operational, risk, and control policies
  • Maintain documentation and evidence required for audit and control validation
  • Partner across global teams (U.S. and India) to ensure consistent operational execution and coverage

Posting End Date:

4 Jun 2026

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

About Wells Fargo

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