Lead Virtual Platform Infrastructure Engineer

Wells Fargo•Irving, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Virtual Platform Infrastructure Engineer with deep cross-domain experience in enterprise‑class virtualization platforms, server engineering, and on‑premises hosting services. This position will drive key initiatives that support advancing platform design, automation, and modernization across hosting services within Broadcom/VMware and OpenShift Virtualization platform within the environment. These efforts streamline platform lifecycle management, performance/capacity, VM provisioning services, infrastructure delivery, strengthen compliance, and improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of systems across the enterprise.

Requirements

5+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience
5+ years of Distributed Infrastructure and/or related IT Infrastructure experience
5+ years of experience working with products related to the Automation of Virtualization, Server Infrastructure, Converged/Hyper-Converged hosting

Nice To Haves

Experience with Hypervisors: VMware and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Experience with software defined networks and load balancers: NSX, AVI
Experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift container platforms
Scripting and/or automation experience: Python, Ansible, PowerShell
Operating Systems Knowledge: Windows, Linux
Experience leading or supporting the design, evaluation, and implementation of complex infrastructure hosting solutions and capabilities
Experience working in agile product teams in a highly regulated financial services industry
Experience with converged and/or hyper-converged infrastructure solutions at-scale in a large enterprise
Experience with virtualization and virtual hosting technologies and administration
Experience mentoring high-performing engineers
Experience with taking software/hardware products and services from inception to customer delivery
Proven experience transforming to and/or managing infrastructure functions in a product model construct, which would include participation in product roadmap planning and feature/backlog prioritization
Skilled in automation to include familiarity with VMWare Aria/VRA, OpenShift Virtualization, Ansible, and other similar products
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code delivery and management
Familiarity with Cloud hosting concepts and operating models
Expert knowledge and understanding of technologies related to infrastructure engineering
Ability to help remediate tough technical support issues
Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
Strong organizational skills
Ability to work independently and as part of team on multiple overlapping projects
Ability to operate effectively in a geographically dispersed organization
Customer focused, service-oriented attitude.

Responsibilities

Lead complex initiatives to develop infrastructure to provide solutions for business applications
Participate in various projects intended to continually improve or upgrade the infrastructure
Evaluate internal and external software solutions which could be leveraged to meet target state architecture goals
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
Interact with customer and vendor