Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the evolution of its infrastructure provisioning and automation ecosystem, driving automation, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams to deliver robust, self-service platform capabilities aligned with the company’s technical vision.
Requirements
- 7+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- 7+ years experience in software development and delivery. In-depth knowledge of enterprise infrastructure technologies, including virtualization, networking, storage, and security.
- 5+ years supporting enterprise-level complex applications and platforms.
- 5+ years of experience with Terraform, Ansible, Crossplane, or similar IaC tools.
- 5+ years of engineering and support experience on Linux/Unix and Windows servers.
- 5+ years designing and building observability solutions (Splunk, Grafana, Elastic, AppDynamics, Prometheus).
- 3+ years of experience with GitOps principles and tools (ArgoCD, Tekton, GitHub Actions)
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of target state architecture for infrastructure automation, setting standards and patterns for the organization.
- Architect and oversee development of reusable, modular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) components using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Crossplane.
- Define and drive adoption of GitOps driven workflows for automated provisioning, deployment, and lifecycle management of cloud infrastructure.
- Build and scale self-service platform capabilities, empowering developers to manage infrastructure independently through intuitive interfaces and APIs.
- Integrate infrastructure automation with tools such as ArgoCD, Kubernetes, and CI/CD platforms (Tekton, GitHub Actions), streamlining developer experience.
- Review and approve new infrastructure standards, patterns, and practices, ensuring alignment with security, scalability, and reliability goals.
- Own the full software development lifecycle for platform engineering initiatives, from concept to deployment.
Other
- Ability to work in an in-office hybrid environment.
- This position is not available for Visa sponsorship
- This position does not have relocation allowance.
- Strong technical communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- A developer-first mindset with a passion for reducing friction and improving engineering productivity.
