Principal Engineer

About the role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to oversee governance for an enterprise-class on-premises virtualization platform. In this role you will guide multiple engineering teams to design solutions that reduce risk and ensure compliance with policy and standards. You will lead high-level technical concepts spanning technology and business, drive solutions to reduce recovery time of outages, review and analyze solutions for security, secrets management and key rotations, design complex system upgrades using best practices, and identify and resolve troublesome trends as they develop. You will also develop long-range plans to resolve problems and prevent recurrence, direct daily risk and control operations, collaborate with product owners to develop product roadmaps, partner with vendors to evaluate new product offerings, influence technical culture and promote best practices, serve as a subject matter expert for product offerings and services, provide high-level architectural decisions and establish technical standards, identify opportunities to reuse technology to avoid duplication, communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, participate in hiring and building high-performing engineering teams, mentor and train engineering staff, and oversee the technical aspects of projects from conception to completion.

Responsibilities

• Ensure engineering teams deliver solutions that comply with policy and standards
• Develop specifications for complex infrastructure systems and design and test solutions
• Contribute to the testing of business, applications and technical infrastructure requirements
• Drive solutions to reduce recovery time of outages
• Review and analyze solutions for security, secrets management and key rotations
• Design complex system upgrades using best practices
• Identify and resolve troublesome trends as they develop
• Develop a long-range plan designed to resolve problems and prevent them from recurring
• Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
• Collaborate with product owners to develop a comprehensive roadmap for products and services being offered
• Collaborate with peers to define and prioritize backlogs
• Collaborate across teams and departments to align technical efforts with goals
• Make recommendations to leadership concerning priority of deliverables
• Partner with vendors to evaluate new product offerings
• Make recommendations to management on vendor product offerings
• Influence technical culture and promote best practices, quality, and efficient execution
• Mediate technical conflicts to resolve complex escalations
• Analyze and make recommendations of capacity needs for the infrastructure
• Serve as a subject matter expert for all product offerings and services
• Provide high-level architectural decisions and establish technical standards
• Identify opportunities to reuse technology avoiding duplication
• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Participate in hiring and building high-performing engineering teams
• Mentor, train, and foster growth within the engineering teams
• Oversee the technical aspects of projects from conception to completion, ensuring quality and alignment with goals

Requirements

• 7+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent, demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 7+ years of Distributed Infrastructure and/or related IT Infrastructure experience
• 7+ years of experience working with products related to the Automation of Virtualization, Server Infrastructure, Converged/Hyper-Converged hosting, or Software Defined Networking

Qualifications

• Experience with Hypervisors: VMware, Nutanix, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
• Experience with software defined networks and load balancers: NSX, AVI
• Experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift container platforms
• Experience with public cloud infrastructure: AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
• 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 and capabilities
• 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 with taking software/hardware products and services from inception to customer delivery
• Experience transforming to and/or managing infrastructure functions in a product model construct, which would include participation in product roadmap planning and feature/backlog prioritization
• Languages: Python, bash, PowerShell and integrating with API's
• Skilled in automation to include familiarity with VMWare Aria/VRA, Nutanix Calm, OpenShift Virtualization, NSX, Ansible, Terraform, and other 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 team on multiple overlapping projects
• Ability to operate effectively in a geographically dispersed organization
• Customer focused, service-oriented attitude