Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Wells Fargo & Company•Irving, TX

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

About this role: Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer with deep cross-domain experience in enterprise‑class virtualization platforms, server engineering, and on‑premises hosting services. The Virtualization and Hardware Engineering team designs, maintains, and optimizes server platforms for both virtualized and bare‑metal environments. The team also develops automation to support fully automated provisioning and lifecycle management. Our work enables advanced infrastructure capabilities—including AI workloads—through certification of high‑performance hardware, integrated monitoring and security, and close collaboration with DevOps. These efforts streamline infrastructure delivery, strengthen compliance, and improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of systems across the enterprise. In this role, you will: Lead in high level technical concepts spanning technology and business Develop specifications for complex infrastructure systems, design and test solutions Contribute to the testing of business, applications and technical infrastructure requirements Drive solutions to reduce recovery Review and analyze solutions for cloud security, secrets management and key rotations Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices Design complex system upgrades Resolve troublesome trends as they develop Develop a long-range plan designed to resolve problems and prevent them from recurring Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Requirements

7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
7+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience
7+ years of Distributed Infrastructure and/or related IT Infrastructure experience
7+ 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, Nutanix, 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
Languages: Python, bash, PowerShell and integrating with API’s
Skilled in automation to include familiarity with VMWare Aria/VRA, Nutanix Calm, 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 in high level technical concepts spanning technology and business
Develop specifications for complex infrastructure systems, design and test solutions
Contribute to the testing of business, applications and technical infrastructure requirements
Drive solutions to reduce recovery
Review and analyze solutions for cloud security, secrets management and key rotations
Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices
Design complex system upgrades
Resolve troublesome trends as they develop
Develop a long-range plan designed to resolve problems and prevent them from recurring
Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success
Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals