Senior Systems Operations Engineer – Infrastructure Development

Location: ISELIN, NJ, IRVING, TX, CHARLOTTE, NC, MINNEAPOLIS, MN

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a seasoned Senior Systems Operations Engineer to join our App and Web Engineering team and build the automation foundations that provision, manage, and scale our enterprise application and web server hosting platforms. This role is ideal for a hands‑on engineer who understands the operational complexity of running large‑scale server environments and is passionate about enabling frictionless self‑service through automation.

You will lead by example-designing and implementing modular IaC components and GitOps workflows that abstract the complexity of provisioning and managing application/web servers, configuring runtime settings, tuning performance parameters, enforcing security policies, integrating with routing layers, and ensuring end‑to‑end observability.

In this role, you will:

• Lead large‑scale initiatives to automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle operations for application and web server platforms (Tomcat, Apache HTTPD, IBM Liberty, NGINX, etc.)
• Architect and develop reusable IaC components (Ansible) for server installation, configuration management, clustering, routing, JVM tuning, certificate automation, and policy enforcement
• Develop automation scripts and workflows using Python or Java to support provisioning, configuration, governance, certificate management, and operational efficiency
• Develop robust APIs using Java Spring Boot or Python to expose provisioning, configuration, deployment governance, certificate management, and capacity automation workflows
• Design and implement GitOps‑driven workflows to automate server configuration updates—such as routing rules, reverse proxy updates, JVM or container runtime changes, TLS rotation, module/plugin configuration, and environment policies
• Build and maintain self‑service platform capabilities enabling developers to request server instances, deploy applications, configure routing, request certificates, manage JNDI/resources, and consume metrics through APIs or service catalogs
• Collaborate across engineering, security, and product teams to ensure platform automation aligns with organizational goals and best practices
• Participate in architecture and code reviews while mentoring engineers on server operations, IaC design patterns, and automation best practices
• Continuously improve platform reliability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency through automation modernization and engineering excellence.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of Systems Engineering, Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 3+ years of full‑stack or backend software development experience using Java and/or Python
• 3+ years of hands-on experience deploying and operating one or more application/web server technologies (Tomcat, Apache HTTPD, IBM Liberty, NGINX, etc.)
• 3+ years of experience with IaC tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• 3+ years of experience implementing GitOps or similar automation practices
• 1+ year of experience with Kubernetes/OCP, containerization, and hybrid cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• 2+ years of experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and integrating automation into platform services.

Desired Qualifications

• Deep understanding of server internals across one or more platforms (e.g., connectors, routing engines, thread pools, modules/plugins, classloading, cluster coordination, reverse proxy behavior)
• Experience integrating application/web servers with load balancers, API gateways, and service meshes.
• Experience implementing enterprise features such as JNDI/JDBC (Tomcat/Liberty), reverse‑proxy modules (Apache/NGINX), or Liberty features/packs
• Familiarity with designing scalable hosting architectures and deployment pipelines for Java and web applications
• Experience with HA and DR patterns spanning multi‑AZ or multi‑region deployments across server platforms
• Hands‑on experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) and platform‑specific monitoring interfaces (e.g., JMX, mod_status, NGINX stub_status, Liberty admin metrics).

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

Posting End Date:

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

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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.