Lead Infrastructure Engineer, Linux

Wells Fargo & Company•Irving, TX

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Infrastructure Engineer for Linux OS Engineering provides technical leadership for enterprise Linux platform engineering, operating system image lifecycle, automation, compliance, and modernization. The role leads the design and delivery of secure, standardized, and auditable RHEL platforms across on-premises, virtualized, container, and public cloud environments. The engineer will advance priorities including RHEL 10 adoption, RHEL 8-to-9 modernization, self-service in-place upgrades, CIS Benchmark implementation, configuration drift management, OS image pipeline automation, Azure/GCP image alignment, and observability improvements. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role that sets technical direction, mentors engineers, partners with infrastructure and application teams, and delivers scalable automation to reduce risk and manual effort. The position blends architecture, automation, compliance engineering, patching, image creation, and cross-team execution. It is focused on replacing manual, exception-driven processes with standardized, self-service, GitOps-aligned delivery. The role also requires supporting Wells Fargo's risk, governance, and compliance responsibilities through sound risk decisions, monitoring, escalation, remediation, and adherence to applicable policies and procedures.

Requirements

5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
5+ years of enterprise Linux engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated technical depth in large-scale infrastructure environments.
5+ years of hands-on Red Hat Enterprise Linux experience, including RHEL 8, RHEL 9, and/or RHEL 10.
3+ years of experience designing, building, hardening, and maintaining Linux OS images or golden images.
3+ years of experience with OS patching, package management, repositories, Satellite, YUM/DNF, kernel updates, and dependency management.
3+ years of experience implementing or supporting security baselines such as CIS Benchmark, STIG, OpenSCAP, or equivalent compliance frameworks.

Nice To Haves

Strong automation experience with Ansible, Python, Bash, Git, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines.
Experience with regulated delivery practices, including change control, evidence collection, audit readiness, traceability, and controlled releases.
Ability to lead technical design, mentor engineers, and drive cross-functional execution across infrastructure, security, operations, and application teams.
Experience with Packer-based image creation, immutable infrastructure, image factory patterns, or automated VM image publication.
Experience with GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, configuration-as-code, and PR-based operational workflows.
Experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, UBI container images, or container platform enablement.
Experience with in-place upgrade tooling, Leapp, enterprise OS migration programs, or self-service lifecycle automation.
Experience with observability platforms such as Grafana, Splunk, Power BI, Red Hat Insights, or similar tooling.
Experience with enterprise storage, clustering, virtualization, bare-metal provisioning, or hardware certification workflows.
Strong communication skills and the ability to translate technical risk, roadmap dependencies, and engineering outcomes into leadership-ready updates.

Responsibilities

Lead complex Linux OS Engineering initiatives focused on RHEL modernization, image lifecycle management, patch automation, and enterprise-scale OS governance.
Provide technical leadership for RHEL 8, RHEL 9, and RHEL 10 engineering, including build standards, release readiness, layered product validation, lifecycle documentation, and catalog rationalization.
Architect and improve automated OS image build pipelines using tools such as Packer, Ansible, GitHub Actions, CI/CD workflows, and GitOps operating patterns.
Lead engineering work on self-service in-place upgrades, including RHEL 7-to-8, RHEL 8-to-9, RHEL 9-to-10, and future upgrade path evaluation.
Drive CIS Benchmark alignment, OpenSCAP-based validation, configuration baseline enforcement, drift detection, remediation automation, and audit-ready evidence generation.
Partner with security, risk, operations, software delivery, cloud, storage, virtualization, and application teams to ensure Linux platforms are secure, supportable, observable, and consumable at scale.
Lead automation and modernization for Azure/GCP Linux images, on-premises VM images, OpenShift/Kubernetes base image dependencies, and required layered product integration.
Improve patch, CVE, and kernel dependency workflows by reducing manual handoffs and improving validation, traceability, and release readiness.
Define engineering standards, runbooks, release patterns, and operational controls that reduce toil and improve consistency across Linux environments.
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, review designs and code, and provide technical direction across multiple Linux workstreams.
Evaluate and apply observability, analytics, and AI-enabled insights to improve OS build success/failure tracking, upgrade readiness, compliance reporting, and proactive issue detection.
Lead troubleshooting for complex Linux OS, provisioning, patching, automation, performance, security, storage, and integration issues.
Fulfill applicable risk and compliance obligations, follow Wells Fargo policies and procedures, and proactively monitor, identify, escalate, and remediate issues.