Lead Network Developer

About the role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Network Developer for the Secure Network Services Load Balancing team. In this role, you will lead the design, development, implementation, and support of complex network automation solutions for large-scale network, application delivery, and infrastructure platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, implementation, and support of complex network automation solutions for large-scale network, application delivery, and infrastructure platforms.
• Develop and maintain automation frameworks, tools, and workflows using technologies such as Python, Ansible, Robot Framework, REST APIs, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies.
• Build, enhance, and support automated provisioning, configuration management, compliance validation, and operational workflows across network and application delivery environments.
• Design and create reusable automation components, playbooks, scripts, testing frameworks, and self-service solutions that improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Develop and maintain integrations between network infrastructure, source control systems, IT service management platforms, orchestration tools, and enterprise automation platforms.
• Create diagnostic, validation, simulation, and testing tools to proactively identify issues, validate changes, and improve platform reliability.
• Research performance trends, operational metrics, and system health data to identify automation opportunities and recommend process improvements.
• Lead the automation of system upgrades, migrations, deployments, compliance checks, and lifecycle management activities while ensuring minimal service disruption.
• Design and implement secure automation solutions that align with enterprise security standards, regulatory requirements, and audit controls.
• Assess operational and security risks associated with automation initiatives and ensure quality, resiliency, and compliance requirements are met before deployment to production environments.
• Identify gaps in existing operational processes and develop automated solutions to improve reliability, scalability, consistency, and service delivery.
• Collaborate with network engineers, software developers, product teams, security partners, and infrastructure teams to deliver innovative automation capabilities and achieve strategic objectives.
• Serve as a technical leader and mentor for automation best practices, code quality standards, source control management, testing methodologies, and DevOps/GitOps adoption.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Network Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 5+ years of Network Automation or Infrastructure Engineering
• 3+ years of experience developing automation solutions using Python, Ansible, Robot Framework, or similar automation technologies.
• 3+ years of experience with REST APIs, JSON, YAML, Git, source control management, and CI/CD pipelines.
• 3+ years of experience automating network, security, application delivery, or infrastructure platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience with F5 BIG-IP, F5 GTM/DNS, NSX Advanced Load Balancer (AVI), NGINX, or other Application Delivery Controller (ADC) platforms.
• Experience with GitOps, Terraform, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or enterprise orchestration platforms.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, automated testing, and software development lifecycle practices.
• Experience troubleshooting complex network and automation workflows in production environments.
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, change management, and operational resiliency principles.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and collaboration skills.
• Familiarity with enterprise monitoring, observability, and logging tools.
• Experience developing automated validation, testing, and compliance frameworks.
• Knowledge of Agile, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE