Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Application and Web Server Platform

Wells Fargo•Iselin, NJ

22h•$119,000 - $224,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a seasoned Lead Infrastructure Engineer to join our App and Web Engineering team and build the automation foundations that provision, manage, and scale our enterprise application and web server hosting platforms. This role is ideal for a hands‑on engineer who understands the operational complexity of running large‑scale server environments and is passionate about enabling frictionless self‑service through automation. You will lead by example—designing and implementing modular IaC components and GitOps workflows that abstract the complexity of provisioning and managing application/web servers, configuring runtime settings, tuning performance parameters, enforcing security policies, integrating with routing layers, and ensuring end‑to‑end observability.

Requirements

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
5+ years of full‑stack or backend software development experience using Java
3+ years of experience with IaC tools such as Ansible or Terraform

Nice To Haves

3+ years of experience deploying and operating one or more application/web server technologies (Tomcat, Apache HTTPD, IBM Liberty, NGINX, etc.)
3+ years of experience implementing GitOps or similar automation practices.
2+ years of experience with Kubernetes/OCP, containerization, and hybrid cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
2+ years of experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and integrating automation into platform services

Responsibilities

Lead complex initiatives to develop infrastructure to provide solutions for business applications
Lead large‑scale initiatives to automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle operations for application and web server platforms (Tomcat, Apache HTTPD, IBM Liberty, NGINX, etc.)
Lead the timely creation, testing, packaging, and publication of approved platform releases and binaries
Develop and maintain automation solutions using scripting languages and infrastructure automation tools
Serve as the technical lead and subject matter expert for enterprise web and application server platforms
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