Wells Fargo

Principal Engineer

Wells Fargo$130K — $155K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering experience or equivalent through work, training, military, or education
  • 7+ years of Distributed Infrastructure and related IT experience
  • 7+ years of experience with the Automation of Virtualization, Server Infrastructure, and Software Defined Networking products.

Responsibilities

  • Lead high-level technical concepts across technology and business
  • Ensure engineering teams comply with policies and standards
  • Develop specifications for complex infrastructure and test solutions
  • Drive solutions to minimize recovery time from outages
  • Analyze solutions for security and manage key rotations
  • Design system upgrades using industry best practices
  • Collaborate with teams to align technical efforts with business goals
  • Mentor and foster growth among engineering teams

Benefits

  • Hybrid work schedule
  • Opportunities for leadership and technical training
  • Exposure to a wide range of technologies and best practices
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
Full Job Description
About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a talented Principal Engineer with experience overseeing governance for an enterprise-class on-premises virtualization platform. In this role you will be tasked as a technical leader to guide multiple teams of engineers to design solutions that reduce risk and ensure compliancy within policy and standards.

In this role, you will:
  • Lead in high level technical concepts spanning technology and business
  • Ensure engineering teams deliver solutions that comply with policy and standards
  • 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 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, or Software Defined Networking.


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 administration.
  • Experience mentoring high-performing engineers.
  • Experience with taking software/hardware products and services from inception to customer delivery.
  • 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
  • Skilled in automation to include familiarity with VMWare Aria/VRA, Nutanix Calm, OpenShift Virtualization, NSX, Ansible, Terraform, and other similar products.
  • 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.


Job Expectations:
  • Ability to work additional hours as needed
  • This position offers a hybrid work schedule
  • This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
  • Relocation assistance in not available for this position
  • Telecommuting is not an option for this position


Posting End Date:

1 Sep 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

About Wells Fargo

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