Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer

Wells Fargo is seeking a talented Principal Engineer with experience overseeing governance for an enterprise-class on-premises virtualization platform. In this role you will be tasked as a technical leader to guide multiple teams of engineers to design solutions that reduce risk and ensure compliancy within policy and standards.

In this role, you will:

• Lead in high level technical concepts spanning technology and business
• Ensure engineering teams deliver solutions that comply with policy and standards
• Develop specifications for complex infrastructure systems, 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

Required Qualifications:

• 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.

Desired

Qualifications:

• Experience with Hypervisors: VMware, Nutanix, Red Hat Open Shift Virtualization
• Experience with software defined networks and load balancers: NSX, AVI
• Experience with Kubernetes or Open Shift container platforms
• Experience with public cloud infrastructure: AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
• Scripting and/or automation experience:
  Python, Ansible, Power Shell
• 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, Power Shell and integrating with API's
• Skilled in…