Principal Engineer

About this role:
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 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.
Job Expectations:
Ability to work additional hours as needed
This position offers a hybrid work schedule
This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
Relocation assistance in not available for this position
Telecommuting is not an option for this position
Posting End Date:
1 Sep 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
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