Lead Virtual Platform Infrastructure Engineer

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Virtual Platform Infrastructure Engineer with deep cross-domain experience in enterprise-class virtualization platforms, server engineering, and on-premises hosting services. This role drives key initiatives that advance platform design, automation, and modernization across Broadcom/VMware and OpenShift Virtualization platforms, streamlining platform lifecycle management, performance/capacity, VM provisioning services, infrastructure delivery, compliance, and system reliability, scalability, and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex initiatives to develop infrastructure solutions for business applications.
• Participate in projects to continually improve or upgrade infrastructure.
• Evaluate internal and external software solutions to meet target state architecture goals.
• Review and analyze high-impact outages to ensure proper processes and procedures are in place to prevent future issues.
• Design, build, deploy, and maintain infrastructure solutions through collaboration with the team and third-party vendors.
• Design, code, test, debug, and document programs using Agile development practices.
• Make decisions in technical designs, implementation plans, and identify project risks and resource requirements.
• Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures, and work standards.
• Recommend courses of action to maintain cost effectiveness and achieve results.
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
• Interact with customers and vendors.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
• 5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience.
• 5+ years of Distributed Infrastructure and/or related IT Infrastructure experience.
• 5+ years of experience working with products related to the Automation of Virtualization, Server Infrastructure, Converged/Hyper-Converged hosting.

Qualifications

• Experience with Hypervisors: VMware and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
• Experience with software defined networks and load balancers: NSX, AVI.
• Experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift container platforms.
• Scripting and/or automation experience: Python, Ansible, PowerShell.
• Operating Systems Knowledge: Windows, Linux.
• Experience leading or supporting the design, evaluation, and implementation of complex infrastructure hosting solutions.
• Experience working in agile product teams in a highly regulated financial services industry.
• Experience with converged and/or hyper-converged infrastructure solutions at-scale in a large enterprise.
• Experience with virtualization and virtual hosting technologies and administration.
• Experience mentoring high-performing engineers.
• Experience taking software/hardware products and services from inception to customer delivery.
• Proven experience transforming to and/or managing infrastructure functions in a product model construct, including participation in product roadmap planning and feature/backlog prioritization.
• Skilled in automation, including familiarity with VMWare Aria/VRA, OpenShift Virtualization, Ansible, and similar products.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code delivery and management.
• Familiarity with Cloud hosting concepts and operating models.
• Expert knowledge and understanding of technologies related to infrastructure engineering.
• Ability to help remediate tough technical support issues.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team on multiple overlapping projects.
• Ability to operate effectively in a geographically dispersed organization.
• Customer-focused, service-oriented attitude.

Schedule

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule.
• Ability to work additional hours as needed.

This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship. Relocation assistance is not available. Telecommuting is not an option.

Locations

• 401 Las Colinas Blvd W, Irving, TX
• 300 South Brevard, Charlotte, NC