Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Solace

Wells Fargo & Company•Iselin, NJ

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer–Solace to join the Solace Engineering team. This role involves designing and engineering a low-latency Solace platform using Solace PubSub+ Event Brokers (Hardware Appliances) for critical applications. The ideal candidate is a hands-on Solace infrastructure engineer with a focus on Automation, APIs, and AI, advocating for DevOps, SRE, and Agile practices. The position plays a key role in designing and building a standardized, scalable, and resilient hardware-based Solace platform. As a lead engineer, the individual will bring a strategic engineering mindset and deep experience in managing complex enterprise infrastructure, collaborating with infrastructure teams and architects to design self-service, highly available, and low-maintenance platforms. The role also involves empowering development and operations teams by building robust, value-added tooling and automation through scripts and APIs.

Requirements

5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
5+ years of middleware engineering or administration experience using Solace PubSub+ hardware appliance offerings
5+ years of experience building and managing enterprise‑scale infrastructure using automation
5+ years of overall infrastructure management experience
3+ years of advanced coding or scripting skills, with a strong focus on infrastructure automation (e.g., Python or similar)

Nice To Haves

5+ years of experience with observability and monitoring tools such as RTView, Grafana, Prometheus, and BigPanda
5+ years of automation experience using Python, SEMP APIs, GitOps, and integration with CI/CD pipelines and internal developer platforms (IDPs)
Expert‑level knowledge of Splunk, including dashboard creation and alert configuration
Experience with scheduling tools such as Autosys or similar platforms
Ability to provide Level 3 (L3) engineering support for operations and development teams
Familiarity with Tomcat, Java, and database technologies
Expert understanding of infrastructure engineering technologies, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and remediate complex technical engineering and support issues

Responsibilities

Lead complex initiatives to design, build, and engineer infrastructure solutions supporting mission‑critical business applications
Drive an automation‑first infrastructure engineering strategy, ensuring infrastructure is designed to be programmatically provisioned, configured, and managed
Apply AI‑assisted engineering capabilities to accelerate infrastructure development, including code generation, configuration validation, design analysis, and standardization
Participate in projects to modernize and evolve Solace infrastructure architecture, aligning with target‑state engineering principles
Evaluate internal and external technologies, including AI‑enabled engineering platforms, to support infrastructure build, automation, and architectural goals
Design infrastructure patterns and tooling that reduce manual effort and improv repeatability, reliability, and engineering quality
Design, build, deploy, and maintain infrastructure solutions through collaboration with engineering teams
Design, code, test, debug, and document infrastructure automation and tooling using Agile engineering practices
Make technical decisions related to architecture, automation frameworks, AI usage, implementation plans, and engineering tradeoffs
Identify engineering risks and dependencies early and define mitigation strategies through design and automation
Direct daily risk and control activities, ensuring infrastructure engineering aligns with policies, procedures, and standards
Recommend engineering approaches that improve cost efficiency, scalability, resiliency, and speed of delivery
Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, managers, customers, and vendors to resolve complex engineering challenges