Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer within the Digital Infrastructure Services organization to drive the design, engineering, and enablement of modern, cloud-native infrastructure platforms across hybrid and on-prem environments.
This role focuses on platform engineering, Kubernetes/OpenShift, infrastructure architecture, and automation, enabling application teams to deliver highly scalable, resilient, and secure solutions aligned with enterprise cloud modernization and data center transformation programs.
In this role, you will:
- Lead the design and engineering of end-to-end infrastructure platforms, ensuring reliability, resiliency, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Drive OpenShift and Kubernetes platform engineering, including cluster architecture, workload onboarding, traffic routing, and service mesh enablement
- Partner with engineering and application teams to modernize legacy workloads, enabling migration to cloud-native and container-based platforms
- Design and support high-performance infrastructure environments, including container platforms, VM-based workloads, and emerging AI/ML and HPC platforms
- Enable observability, monitoring, and alerting frameworks using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and AppDynamics to ensure system health and performance
- Lead capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost efficiency initiatives (FinOps)
- Drive solutions for resiliency, fault tolerance, and high availability, including multi-region and multi-data center strategies
- Evaluate emerging technologies and lead POCs and POTs to drive continuous innovation and modernization
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineers, influencing best practices, standards, and solution patterns
- 5+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through a combination of work experience, training, military experience, or education
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with cloud-native platforms and architectures, including containerization, distributed systems, and scalable deployment models
- 3+ years of experience with distributed streaming and event-driven architectures, using technologies such as Kafka, Flink, or similar real-time data processing frameworks
- 3+ years of experience in database design and data architecture, including relational and/or NoSQL systems, data modeling, and high-throughput data access patterns
- 2+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise-grade automation solutions using tools such as Ansible, Harness CD, GitHub Actions, and Playwright
- Experience supporting high-volume, mission-critical applications at scale, with millions of daily users
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex projects with limited supervision and high accountability
- Cloud certifications in AWS, GCP, Azure, or Generative AI
- Experience with AVI, F5 load balancing, or traffic management solutions
- Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure or platform engineering concepts including prompt engineering, vector databases, and orchestration tools
- Ability to balance architecture with hands-on engineering execution
- Strong collaboration across platform, application, and infrastructure teams
- Experience driving large-scale transformation initiatives and accelerating platform adoption
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.
$143,000.00 - $224,000.00
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
22 Jul 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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Skills Required
- 5+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years hands-on experience with cloud-native platforms and architectures (containerization, distributed systems)
- 3+ years experience with distributed streaming and event-driven architectures (Kafka, Flink, or similar)
- 3+ years experience in database design and data architecture (relational and/or NoSQL systems)
- 2+ years designing and implementing enterprise-grade automation solutions using Ansible, Harness CD, GitHub Actions, and Playwright
- Experience enabling observability and monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or AppDynamics
- Experience supporting high-volume, mission-critical applications at scale
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex projects with limited supervision
- Cloud certifications in AWS, GCP, Azure, or Generative AI
- Experience with AVI, F5 load balancing, or traffic management solutions
- Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure concepts including prompt engineering, vector databases, and orchestration tools
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage begins on day 1 with medical, dental, and vision, and includes mental health, prescription drugs, and preventive care often covered at 100% in-network. Well-being resources such as 24-hour clinical support and an Employee Assistance Program add to the breadth.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave provides up to 16 weeks for a primary caregiver (4 weeks for non-primary) alongside fertility benefits and up to a $35,000 lifetime reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, and donor expenses. Backup child and adult care further supports family needs.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits feature a 401(k) with company matching contributions up to 6% of eligible pay. An employee stock purchase plan adds another avenue for long-term savings.
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