Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Wells Fargo•Concord, CA

3d•$143,000 - $224,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer within the Digital Infrastructure Services organization to drive the design, engineering, and enablement of modern, cloud-native infrastructure platforms across hybrid and on-prem environments. This role focuses on platform engineering, Kubernetes/OpenShift, infrastructure architecture, and automation, enabling application teams to deliver highly scalable, resilient, and secure solutions aligned with enterprise cloud modernization and data center transformation programs.

Requirements

5+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through a combination of work experience, training, military experience, or education
3+ years of hands-on experience with cloud‑native platforms and architectures, including containerization, distributed systems, and scalable deployment models
3+ years of experience with distributed streaming and event-driven architectures, using technologies such as Kafka, Flink, or similar real-time data processing frameworks
3+ years of experience in database design and data architecture, including relational and/or NoSQL systems, data modeling, and high-throughput data access patterns
2+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise-grade automation solutions using tools such as Ansible, Harness CD, GitHub Actions, and Playwright

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting high‑volume, mission‑critical applications at scale, with millions of daily users
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
Demonstrated ability to lead complex projects with limited supervision and high accountability
Cloud certifications in AWS, GCP, Azure, or Generative AI
Experience with AVI, F5 load balancing, or traffic management solutions
Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure or platform engineering concepts including prompt engineering, vector databases, and orchestration tools
Ability to balance architecture with hands-on engineering execution
Strong collaboration across platform, application, and infrastructure teams
Experience driving large-scale transformation initiatives and accelerating platform adoption

Responsibilities

Lead the design and engineering of end-to-end infrastructure platforms, ensuring reliability, resiliency, scalability, and fault tolerance
Drive OpenShift and Kubernetes platform engineering, including cluster architecture, workload onboarding, traffic routing, and service mesh enablement
Partner with engineering and application teams to modernize legacy workloads, enabling migration to cloud-native and container-based platforms
Design and support high-performance infrastructure environments, including container platforms, VM-based workloads, and emerging AI/ML and HPC platforms
Enable observability, monitoring, and alerting frameworks using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and AppDynamics to ensure system health and performance
Lead capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost efficiency initiatives (FinOps)
Drive solutions for resiliency, fault tolerance, and high availability, including multi-region and multi–data center strategies
Evaluate emerging technologies and lead POCs and POTs to drive continuous innovation and modernization
Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineers, influencing best practices, standards, and solution patterns