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We're seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to lead the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of Wells Fargo's enterprise Data Private Cloud. This is a Kubernetes/OpenShift platform engineering role, responsible for designing and operating the large-scale infrastructure that powers data, analytics, and AI workloads across the company.
This is not a data engineering role. You won't be building pipelines or analytics solutions.
Instead, you will:
- Architect the Kubernetes-based data platform
- Build infrastructure, automation, and security foundations
- Define standards, controls, and multi-tenant patterns
- Enable data engineers, ML engineers, and analytics teams by providing a scalable, secure platform they run on
Core Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Own the architecture of the enterprise data platform (OpenShift, Kubernetes, modern data stacks)
- Define platform standards for security, scalability, multi-tenancy, and operational excellence
- Lead decisions around compute orchestration (Spark on K8s, YuniKorn), query federation (Trino, Kyuubi), and metadata management (Gravitino, Hive Metastore)
- Design authentication/authorization (Keycloak, AD, Ranger)
- Shape infrastructure strategy and open-source deployment patterns
- Lead Terraform-based IaC and repeatable deployment practices
- Architect networking, ingress, and service mesh configurations
- Oversee PKI, SSL/TLS, and certificate lifecycle management
- Build monitoring and observability strategies (OpenSearch, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Ensure resilience through scheduling, quotas, and capacity planning
- Implement GitOps for declarative deployments
You provide leadership for the platform that runs these technologies, not the pipelines or applications built on them:
- Compute: Spark on K8s, Kyuubi, JupyterHub
- Query/Analytics: Trino, Superset
- Orchestration: Airflow on Kubernetes
- Catalog/Governance: Gravitino, DataHub, Ranger
- Storage: Iceberg, S3/NetApp, PostgreSQL
- Messaging/Search: Kafka, OpenSearch
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements (OSFI, SOX, PCI-DSS)
- Implement multi-tenant isolation and robust security boundaries
- Lead security reviews, threat modeling, and remediation
- Partner with Security, Risk, and Compliance teams on audits and controls
- 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments (OpenShift Container Platform strongly preferred)
- Proven track record designing and operating large-scale data platforms in enterprise environments
- Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries
- Experience with Kubernetes scheduling frameworks (YuniKorn, Volcano) for batch and AI workload optimization
- Contributions to open-source projects in the data or infrastructure
- Experience building and deploying applications with enterprise data sources
- Hands-on experience with transformer architectures and fine-tuning open-source models
- Professional certifications: CKA/CKAD, AWS/Azure/GCP Professional, Terraform Associate
- Experience with GitOps practices (ArgoCD, Flux)
- Background in platform product management or developer experience
Infrastructure & Orchestration
- Expert-level Kubernetes knowledge: deployments, stateful workloads, operators, CRDs, RBAC, network policies, storage classes
- OpenShift Container Platform: Routes, SCCs, cluster administration, operator lifecycle management
- Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform (modules, state management, provider development)
- Container runtimes, image registries, and CI/CD pipeline integration
- Apache Spark: architecture, tuning, Spark on Kubernetes, dynamic resource allocation
- Distributed SQL engines (Trino, Presto) including federation and connector development
- Apache Airflow: DAG design, executor configurations, Kubernetes executor
- Data catalog and lineage tools (DataHub, Apache Atlas, or similar)
- Apache Ranger or equivalent fine-grained authorization frameworks
- Apache Iceberg or similar table formats; Hive Metastore operations
- AIOps tools: anomaly detection with Prophet, PyOD, or custom models; log analytics with OpenSearch ML
- Observability ML: Prometheus with recording rules, Grafana ML features, custom alerting models
- Enterprise identity integration: LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, OIDC
- Keycloak administration, realm configuration, and custom provider development
- PKI, certificate management, and TLS termination strategies
- Secrets management (HashiCorp Vault, Kubernetes secrets, external secrets operators)
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.
$159,000.00 - $305,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.
- Health benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid time off
- Disability benefits
- Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
- Parental leave
- Critical caregiving leave
- Discounts and savings
- Commuter benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Scholarships for dependent children
- Adoption reimbursement
19 Feb 2026
* 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.
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