Wells Fargo

Senior Systems Operations Engineer

Wells Fargo$100K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of Systems Engineering or Technology Architecture experience.
  • 3+ years of hands-on Python experience for platform operations automation.
  • Strong proficiency in writing production-quality Python code and integrations.
  • Ability to develop automation solutions, including remediation workflows.
  • 3+ years of experience managing complex enterprise-scale applications in production.
  • Strong platform expertise with OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Public Cloud.
  • 2+ years of hands-on Linux system administration experience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead or participate in high-impact initiatives and system consultation.
  • Engage in day-to-day platform operations like cluster maintenance and troubleshooting.
  • Drive improvements to meet new Incident SLA and enhance incident management practices.
  • Act as operational lead during incidents, resolving issues quickly and effectively.
  • Develop or enhance automation and tools to reduce manual efforts and improve efficiency.
  • Oversee platform lifecycle activities ensuring reliability and compliance.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement operational standards and practices.
  • Identify gaps and lead initiatives for operational improvements and maturity.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with the option to work from designated locations.
  • Participation in on-call rotation for operational support.
Full Job Description
About this role:

This role is ideal for someone who excels in Python coding, AI development, Kubernetes and OpenShift platform operations, drives operational excellence, and take initiatives that improve stability, automation, and service reliability. You will play a key role in operating and improving our cloud-native platforms, reducing operational toil, and ensuring the resilience and compliance of critical infrastructure services.

In this role, you will:
  • Lead or participate in complex, broad impact initiatives including provision of high-level systems consultation for the technology teams
  • Platform Operations: Participate in day-to-day Platform (REDIS, OpenShift) platform operations, including cluster maintenance, upgrades, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting
  • Operations Excellence: Improving operations practices to meet new Incident SLA and improving practices during incident & problem management
  • Incident Response & Problem Management: Serve as an operational lead during incidents, driving rapid diagnosis, resolution, root-cause analysis, and long-term corrective actions
  • Operational Automation: Develop or enhance automation (Python, Bash, GitOps workflows, or AI-assisted tools), build AI Agents, MCP server and tools, add skill in MCP that eliminates manual effort and streamlines run processes
  • Platform Readiness: Lead Platform lifecycle activities, including new cluster builds, configuration, onboarding, upgrades, and cluster decommissioning, ensuring consistency, reliability, and compliance across environments
  • Collaboration & Enablement: Partner with engineering, SRE, security, and development teams to implement repeatable operational patterns, guardrails, and platform readiness standards
  • Security, Compliance & Governance: Ensure platform operations follow organizational policies, security standards, audit controls, and regulatory requirements
  • Continuous Improvement: Identify operational gaps, recurring issues, or inefficiencies and lead initiatives to enhance reliability, resiliency, and operational maturity.


Required Qualifications:
  • 4+ years of Systems Engineering, Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in Python for platform operations automation
  • Strong proficiency in writing production-quality Python code by using Python libraries and client integrations
  • Ability to develop automation solutions, including remediation procedures & workflows and operational tools using Python
  • 3+years of experience managing complex, enterprise-scale applications in production environments
  • Strong platform experience with Open shift, Kubernetes, Public cloud
  • 2+ years of hands-on Linux system administration experience
  • Deep platform expertise, including cluster build-outs, CI/CD pipeline integration, troubleshooting, debugging, remediation, patching, upgrades, and root cause analysis (RCA)
  • Deep expertise with Platforms includes building clusters with pipelines, diagnosing, debugging, remediation, upgrades, patching, and RCA.


Desired Qualifications:
  • Experience in AI development, including agents, MCP, tools, and related frameworks
  • Hands-on experience with configuration and monitoring, operational tooling such as Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, Jira, or GitHub, SDLC
  • Demonstrated ability to influence operational improvements across teams.
  • Strong analytical and operational problem-solving skills.


Job Expectations:
  • Participation in on-call rotations
  • This position is hybrid and must be located at one of the posted locations.
  • This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship
  • Develop automated remediation scripts in Python to proactively resolve alerts and enhance operational efficiency, reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).


Posting End Date:

7 Jun 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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