Lead IaC Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer, specializing in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC). This engineering role is a hands-on opportunity to be responsible for the delivery of features enabling IaC functionality for other engineers to consume, driving solutions and frameworks to advance IaC adoption and standards across all of Wells Fargo Technology. The ideal candidate has a strong and broad technical background in designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining systems automation solutions using cloud-native tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes and/or other container/workload orchestration solutions).

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
• Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
• Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
• Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer, specializing in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC). This engineering role is a hands-on opportunity to be responsible for the delivery of features enabling IaC functionality for other engineers to consume, driving solutions and frameworks to advance IaC adoption and standards across all of Wells Fargo Technology. The ideal candidate has a strong and broad technical background in designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining systems automation solutions using cloud-native tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes and/or other container/workload orchestration solutions).

In this role, you will:

Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups

Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking

Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions

Build CI/CD orchestration pipelines for IaC and deploy/test across environments

Integrate IaC Platform with enterprise tools ((Vault, ITSM Tool, other IaC Tools, Active directory)

Customize IaC Platforms and improve the customer experience.

Perform Peer review of the code developed by other developers and provide feedback

Define standards for IaC tools and platforms to improve quality.

innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization

Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership

Integrate with enterprise tools and environment standards

Shape technical proposals to be commercially acceptable to the customer

Defines the approach to larger/more complex solution development and acceptance testing

Contributes to the overall platform architecture

Design solutions of significant size and complexity

Collaborate with application teams and onboard new application platforms onto Terraform Enterprise

Lead or participate in high level technical concepts spanning technology and business

Develop specifications for complex infrastructure systems, design and test solutions

Contribute to the testing of business, application and technical infrastructure requirements

Drive solutions to reduce recovery time and recovery point capabilities

Review and analyze solutions for security, secrets management, and key rotations (Security Automation)

Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices

Resolve troublesome trends as they develop

Develop a long-range plan designed to resolve problems and prevent them from recurring

Required Qualifications, US:

• 5+ years of Software Engineering or Systems Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 5+ years of Systems Engineering experience in Infrastructure Automation (Terraform and Python), Building and developing CI/CD Pipelines, and Cloud Computing technologies
• 2+ Years of Experience in designing and setting up Terraform Enterprise or Terraform Cloud platforms at enterprise scale.

Desired Qualifications:

• Product centric mindset in managing any IaC/CI/CD Platforms
• Experience in writing Terraform Module
• Good understanding of Terraform Open Source and Terraform Enterprise/Cloud platforms.
• Development experience with Python and Shell or other scripting languages
• Experience in creating and deploying IaC frameworks for a large customer base
• Experience using GitHub Actions
• Experience working with ServiceNow
• Understanding of Secret management such as Vault
• Experiencing working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience working on platform engineering teams
• Experience managing configuration, build and deployments for enterprise software solutions
• In-Depth knowledge of Windows Server and Linux orchestration and automation
• Ability to create product backlog (write epics/features/stories)
• Experienced in working in Agile methodologies
• Excellent communication skills - written and spoken
• Ability to understand critical issues and bring appropriate resolution to complex issues
• High degree of professionalism, self-motivation and problem-solving attitude

Job Expectations:

• Work Schedule: 3 days in office/2 days at home. Schedule is subject to change based on business needs.
• Ability to work additional hours as needed
• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time
• This role is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• This role is not eligible for relocation assistance

Work Locations:

• 1301 Solana Blvd - Westlake TX
• 300 South Brevard - Charlotte NC
• 1751 Pinnacle Dr - Arlington VA

Posting End Date:
8 Dec 2024
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Diversity

At Wells Fargo, we believe in diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace; accordingly, we welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, individuals with disabilities, pregnancy, marital status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

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