About this role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer within its Infrastructure Engineering & Architecture organization. This role will provide deep, hands-on technical leadership to drive automation across OpenShift, Kubernetes, and foundational platform ecosystems.

Responsibilities span platform engineering across on-prem and cloud compute, storage, virtualization, and containerization platforms.

This role will also drive platform modernization (including self-service capabilities for end-users and support partners), observability, reliability, and regulatory compliance.

In this role, you will:

Act as the senior technical authority for platform automation across on-prem and cloud compute, storage, virtualization, and containerization platforms.
Define engineering standards and automation patterns for multi-cluster, multi-cloud environments.
Lead code reviews, enforce engineering best practices, and guide teams toward resilient automation-focused designs.
Develop reusable automation modules, operators, GitOps templates, and API-based workflows.
Lead OpenShift Virtualization, OpenShift on Azure/GKE validation, and certification of integrations.
Modernize end-to-end provisioning using API-driven microservices and fully automated workflows.
Automate certificate lifecycle management, service mesh provisioning, and cluster maintenance workflows.
Improve drift, vulnerability, and compliance automation in partnership with governance teams.
Enhance observability with unified dashboards, SLO enforcement, resiliency automation, and MTTR reduction.
Mentor engineers, lead technical councils, and support major cross-team engineering decisions.

Required Qualifications:

7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

7+ years of compute, storage, virtualization, and containerization platform engineering experience.
5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes/OpenShift experience in large environments.
Automation of complex infrastructure workflows using Terraform/Ansible.
Hands-on scripting using Python, Go, or Bash.
Experience with GitOps (Argo CD, Flux) and CI/CD automation.
Hybrid cloud engineering (on-prem, Azure, GCP) including multi-cloud connectivity and security.
Strong background in platform reliability, SLOs, observability, and automation-first operating models.

Experience delivering OpenShift Virtualization and modernization programs.
Experience with Prisma integrations for vulnerability and drift automation.
Experience designing platform-wide observability dashboards and analytics pipelines.
Financial services or regulatory industry experience.
Certifications: CKA/CKAD, RHCSA/RHCE, Terraform Associate, Azure/GCP Professional.

Success Measures:

Increased automation coverage and reduction of manual operational workflows.
Accelerated onboarding to platform via self-service and GitOps workflows.
Improved reliability, lower MTTR, and operational consistency across platform teams.
Stronger compliance and audit posture enabled through automated controls and drift management.
Greater efficiency and reduced friction across on-prem and cloud compute, storage, virtualization and containerization platforms and products.

Job Expectations:

Act as the senior technical authority for platform automation across on-prem and cloud compute, storage, virtualization, and containerization platforms.
Define engineering standards and automation patterns for multi-cluster, multi-cloud environments.
Lead code reviews, enforce engineering best practices, and guide teams toward resilient automation-focused designs.
Develop reusable automation modules, operators, GitOps templates, and API-based workflows.
Lead OpenShift Virtualization, OpenShift on Azure/GKE validation, and certification of integrations.
Modernize end-to-end provisioning using API-driven microservices and fully automated workflows.
Automate certificate lifecycle management, service mesh provisioning, and cluster maintenance workflows.
Improve drift, vulnerability, and compliance automation in partnership with governance teams.
Enhance observability with unified dashboards, SLO enforcement, resiliency automation, and MTTR reduction.
Mentor engineers, lead technical councils, and support major cross-team engineering decisions.

Posting End Date:

5 Apr 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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