Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer for Middleware Messaging Kafka operations.
In this role, you will:
- Lead or participate in high-level technical concepts spanning technology and business to drive strategic initiatives.
- Develop specifications for complex infrastructure systems, design, and test solutions ensuring scalability and reliability.
- Design and implement complex system upgrades to maintain performance and compliance.
- Responsible for designing, implementing, and automating Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) exercises, as well as executing routine system maintenance procedures to ensure operational resilience.
- Preferred experience in leading and executing data center migration projects with a focus on middleware platforms, including planning, configuration, and integration of application servers and related components.
- Direct daily Risk and Control flow of Compliance, focusing on policies, procedures, and work standards to ensure success.
- Outline and implement product support, maintenance, and enhancements to ensure optimal system performance.
- Develop a long-range plan designed to resolve problems and prevent recurrence.
- Design and implement observability dashboards that provide a unified, single-pane-of-glass view for executive-level oversight.
- Employ monitoring tools such as Grafana, AppDynamics, and Splunk for business applications and operations teams.
- Contribute to the analysis of business, application, and technical infrastructure requirements to support solution design.
- Contribute to the testing of business applications and technical infrastructure requirements.
- Generate documentation, operational policies, and procedures to support governance and compliance.
- Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Desired Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
- Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience managing large-scale Middleware environments, including Kafka, Confluent Platforms.
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka in enterprise production environments
- Deep expertise in setting up confluent platform including KRAFT, Brokers, Schema registry, Rest proxy, Kafka Connect, KsqlDB
- , Cluster Linking.
- Mandatory Experience in deploying and operating Kafka on OpenShift (OCP) with Confluent Operator.
- Expertise in provisioning Topics, ACLs, Idempotent Producers, Consumers
- Proficient in tuning the GC, heap, partitions, ISR, retention, quotas
- Expert troubleshooting the consumer lag issues, slowness, Message loss & duplication, Throughput, broker crashes, offset issues, disk saturation.
- Expert is setting up Kafka Security with TLS.
- Experience in Kraft mode setup and migration.
- Experience on setting and configuring Prometheus and Grafana Dashboards for Platform health.
- Knowledge of large-scale performance tuning and benchmarking with tools like KafkaPerf or kafkacat/kcat.
- Exposure to cloud-based Kafka (Confluent Cloud, AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs for Kafka).
- Experience with Schema evolution, compatibility modes, and Avro/JSON/Protobuf.
- Automation/scripting (Python, Bash, Ansible).
- Experience with other messaging platforms (Solace, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ).
- Networking concepts: BGP, routing, multicast, certificates at enterprise scale.
- Experience managing capacity planning and throughput optimization.
- Familiarity with enterprise monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).
- Confluent certifications (CCDAK, CCP) are a plus.
- Experience supporting an enterprise-level environment.
- Thorough understanding compliance standards and risk management practices for systems within the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance) sector.
- Provide implementation support for key risk initiatives.
- ITIL v4 Certification.
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Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a leading financial services company that has approximately $2.1 trillion in assets. We provide a diversified set of banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through our four reportable operating segments: Consumer Banking and Lending, Commercial Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Wealth & Investment Management. Wells Fargo ranked No. 33 on Fortune’s 2025 rankings of America’s largest corporations. Our technology professionals drive innovation, information security, and big data analytics while maintaining a network that handles more than 12 billion customer interactions a year. Join us! Are you looking for more? Find it here. At Wells Fargo, we're more than a financial services leader – we’re a global trailblazer committed to driving innovation, empowering communities, and helping our customers succeed. We believe that a meaningful career is much more than just a job – it’s about finding all of the elements to help you thrive, in one place. Living the Well Life means you’re supported in life, not just work. It means having robust benefits, competitive compensation, and programs designed to help you find work-life balance and well-being. You’ll be rewarded for investing in your community, celebrated for being your authentic self, and empowered to grow. And we’re recognized for it – Wells Fargo once again ranked in the top three – making us the #1 financial services employer – on the 2025 LinkedIn Top Companies list of best workplaces “to grow your career” in the U.S. 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. © 2026 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. All rights reserved. Member FDIC.
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