Principal Platform Engineer

About this role: Wells Fargo is seeking a highly skilled platform architect that will serve as a technical leader in designing, developing, and optimizing enterprise platform architectures with a focus on OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform for Enterprise Functions Technologies (EFT).

In this role, you will:

• Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups
• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking
• Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions
• Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization
• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership
• Architect and optimize platforms leveraging OpenShift, Azure, and GCP to support containerized and cloud-native applications.
• Collaborate with IT teams, business stakeholders, and vendors to define and implement hybrid and multicloud strategies.
• Implement best practices for platform security, governance, and compliance, ensuring adherence to industry regulations and security frameworks.
• Drive the adoption of automation and DevOps methodologies for continuous integration/continuous deployment including the implementation of Infrastructure-as-Code. •
• Optimize workloads across platforms for performance, availability, and cost efficiency. Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to platform engineers and development teams.
• Stay up to date with emerging container and cloud technologies and trends and help guide adoption of their use within EFT.
• Ensure platform designs meet disaster recovery and business continuity requirements while providing playbooks on how to execute against the design expectations.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 6+ years of experience in cloud architecture, with at least 5 years specializing in OCP/Azure/GCP
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in designing and deploying scalable, secure environments using OCP/Azure/GCP services
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with automation tools such as Terraform, PowerShell, Helm Charts, Azure Blueprints, and GCP Cloud Deployment Manager.
• 3+ years of experience deploying architecture solutions into container/cloud environments via CI/CD pipelines
• 3+ years of experience with architecture diagramming tools (e.g., Visio, LucidChart, Miro, etc.)

Desired Qualifications:

• Google Professional Cloud Architect/Azure Solutions Architect/Red Hat Certified OpenShift Architect certification desired.
• Proven experience in the design, deployment, and management of large-scale container/cloud solutions (preferably in financial services environments)
• Strong understanding of container/cloud security principles including encryption and identity, networking policies, and access management. Exposure to container/cloud governance and logging/monitoring tooling. Understanding, engineering and implementing disaster recovery and business continuity playbooks
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and leadership skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• Ability to work on-site at approved location listed
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Posting End Date: 

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.