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Lead Systems Operations Engineer

ExperiencedNo visa sponsorship

Posted 15 days ago

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**Lead Systems Operations Engineer** - Drive Payments Modernization in a high-volume, cloud-native, event-driven landscape. Embed SRE & production engineering practices for reliable, scalable platforms. - **Responsibilities:** Lead complex projects, consult on technical changes, collaborate with peers, and make informed decisions on core business solutions. Review and analyze complex challenges, and provide strategic guidance. - **Skills & Experience:** 5+ years in Systems Engineering, 3+ years application support, and 3+ years in Kubernetes. Desired: CI/CD, Spring Boot, MongoDB, resilience tools, and event-driven architecture experience. - **Job Context:** Hybrid work schedule, not eligible for Visa sponsorship, no relocation assistance. Valuing equal opportunity, drug-free workplace, and adherence to Wells Fargo's risk and compliance programs.

Compensation
Not specified

Currency: Not specified

City
Not specified
Country
United States

Full Job Description

Are you looking for more? Find it here. At Wells Fargo, we believe that a meaningful career is much more than just a job. Its about finding all the elements that help you thrive, in one place. #LivingTheWellLife means youre supported in life, not just work. It means having a competitive salary, a robust benefits package, and programs to support your work-life balance and well-being. It means being rewarded for investing in your community, celebrated for being your authentic self, and empowered to grow.

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Systems Operations Engineer in technology as part of Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology (CCIBT). Team is seeking a Payments Modernization Platform Engineer / SRE to join Payments & Liquidity Technology (GPLT), supporting the transformation of the high-value payments landscape as we modernize legacy wire platforms onto a new, event-driven, cloud-native architecture. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, service management, and reliability. You will be embedded early in the Payments Modernization lifecycle to ensure platforms are operable, resilient, observable, and supportable by design, not retrofitted after go-live. You will work closely with Application Engineering, Architecture and Service Operations teams to shape how new payment capabilities are built, tested, released, and stabilized at scale.

This role embeds Site Reliability Engineering and production engineering practices into Payments Modernization initiatives from design through early life support, ensuring platforms are resilient, scalable, observable, and operationally ready. The engineer defines and validates nonfunctional requirements, leads capacity and performance testing for highvolume and peak payment events, and ensures robust replay, retry, and exceptionhandling for eventdriven flows. They own permittooperate readiness, cutover and early life support models, and ensure runbooks, oncall readiness, and escalation paths are productiongrade before golive. The role drives endtoend observability, SLOs and error budgets, reduces alert noise, and analyzes early defect patterns to stabilize services. Through chaos engineering, blameless RCAs, and continuous service improvement, this position strengthens recovery, reduces risk, and improves the reliability of critical payment platforms.

Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at 

wellsfargojobs.com.

In this role, you will:

  • Lead complex, broad impact initiatives including provision of high level systems consultation for the technology teams

  • Work as key participant in large scale planning of computer systems and network infrastructure for Systems Operations functional area

  • Review and analyze complex technical challenges, as well as escalated support issues related to core business solutions that require in depth evaluation of multiple factors, such as alternatives, enhancements, periodic systems reviews, or improvements to existing systems

  • Make decisions on technical changes and enhancements

  • Consult with engineering team on change design requiring solid understanding of technical process controls or standards that influence and drive new initiatives

  • Collaborate and consult with technical peers, colleagues, and mid to more experienced level managers to resolve systems support issues and achieve goals

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of Systems Engineering, Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

  • 3+ years of application support experience

  • 3+ years of Platform experience in Kubernetes / container orchestration

Desired Qualifications:

  • 2+ years of CI/CD & Automation experience in Progressive delivery, automated rollback, reliability-as-code concepts

  • 2+ years of Application Frameworks experience in Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, etc.

  • 2+ years of Data Stores & Caching experience with MongoDB, Redis

  • 2+ years of Resilience experience with Resilience4J, retry/replay patterns

  • 2+ years Observability: Distributed tracing, metrics, logging, SLO tooling

  • 2+ years Testing & Resilience Validation: BlazeMeter, Chaos Monkey

  • Strong experience in SRE, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Service Transition within a complex technology or financial services environment

  • Demonstrated ability to productionize new platforms, not just support them

  • Solid understanding of high-value payment systems (Wires, RTP, SWIFT, CHIPS, FedNow) and their operational risk profile

  • Experience working with event-driven, distributed architectures

  • Comfortable operating in early-stage, ambiguous transformation environments

Job Expectations:

  • This position offers a hybrid work schedule

  • This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

  • Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Posting Locations:

  • 2800 S Price Rd., Chandler, Arizona 85286

  • 1525 W W T Harris Blvd. - Charlotte, North Carolina 28262

Posting End Date: 

30 Aug 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 units risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

 

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.


Lead Systems Operations Engineer

Compensation

Not specified

City: Not specified

Country: United States

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at Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking

ExperiencedNo visa sponsorship

**Lead Systems Operations Engineer** - Drive Payments Modernization in a high-volume, cloud-native, event-driven landscape. Embed SRE & production engineering practices for reliable, scalable platforms. - **Responsibilities:** Lead complex projects, consult on technical changes, collaborate with peers, and make informed decisions on core business solutions. Review and analyze complex challenges, and provide strategic guidance. - **Skills & Experience:** 5+ years in Systems Engineering, 3+ years application support, and 3+ years in Kubernetes. Desired: CI/CD, Spring Boot, MongoDB, resilience tools, and event-driven architecture experience. - **Job Context:** Hybrid work schedule, not eligible for Visa sponsorship, no relocation assistance. Valuing equal opportunity, drug-free workplace, and adherence to Wells Fargo's risk and compliance programs.

Full Job Description

Are you looking for more? Find it here. At Wells Fargo, we believe that a meaningful career is much more than just a job. Its about finding all the elements that help you thrive, in one place. #LivingTheWellLife means youre supported in life, not just work. It means having a competitive salary, a robust benefits package, and programs to support your work-life balance and well-being. It means being rewarded for investing in your community, celebrated for being your authentic self, and empowered to grow.

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Systems Operations Engineer in technology as part of Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology (CCIBT). Team is seeking a Payments Modernization Platform Engineer / SRE to join Payments & Liquidity Technology (GPLT), supporting the transformation of the high-value payments landscape as we modernize legacy wire platforms onto a new, event-driven, cloud-native architecture. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, service management, and reliability. You will be embedded early in the Payments Modernization lifecycle to ensure platforms are operable, resilient, observable, and supportable by design, not retrofitted after go-live. You will work closely with Application Engineering, Architecture and Service Operations teams to shape how new payment capabilities are built, tested, released, and stabilized at scale.

This role embeds Site Reliability Engineering and production engineering practices into Payments Modernization initiatives from design through early life support, ensuring platforms are resilient, scalable, observable, and operationally ready. The engineer defines and validates nonfunctional requirements, leads capacity and performance testing for highvolume and peak payment events, and ensures robust replay, retry, and exceptionhandling for eventdriven flows. They own permittooperate readiness, cutover and early life support models, and ensure runbooks, oncall readiness, and escalation paths are productiongrade before golive. The role drives endtoend observability, SLOs and error budgets, reduces alert noise, and analyzes early defect patterns to stabilize services. Through chaos engineering, blameless RCAs, and continuous service improvement, this position strengthens recovery, reduces risk, and improves the reliability of critical payment platforms.

Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at 

wellsfargojobs.com.

In this role, you will:

  • Lead complex, broad impact initiatives including provision of high level systems consultation for the technology teams

  • Work as key participant in large scale planning of computer systems and network infrastructure for Systems Operations functional area

  • Review and analyze complex technical challenges, as well as escalated support issues related to core business solutions that require in depth evaluation of multiple factors, such as alternatives, enhancements, periodic systems reviews, or improvements to existing systems

  • Make decisions on technical changes and enhancements

  • Consult with engineering team on change design requiring solid understanding of technical process controls or standards that influence and drive new initiatives

  • Collaborate and consult with technical peers, colleagues, and mid to more experienced level managers to resolve systems support issues and achieve goals

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of Systems Engineering, Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

  • 3+ years of application support experience

  • 3+ years of Platform experience in Kubernetes / container orchestration

Desired Qualifications:

  • 2+ years of CI/CD & Automation experience in Progressive delivery, automated rollback, reliability-as-code concepts

  • 2+ years of Application Frameworks experience in Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, etc.

  • 2+ years of Data Stores & Caching experience with MongoDB, Redis

  • 2+ years of Resilience experience with Resilience4J, retry/replay patterns

  • 2+ years Observability: Distributed tracing, metrics, logging, SLO tooling

  • 2+ years Testing & Resilience Validation: BlazeMeter, Chaos Monkey

  • Strong experience in SRE, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Service Transition within a complex technology or financial services environment

  • Demonstrated ability to productionize new platforms, not just support them

  • Solid understanding of high-value payment systems (Wires, RTP, SWIFT, CHIPS, FedNow) and their operational risk profile

  • Experience working with event-driven, distributed architectures

  • Comfortable operating in early-stage, ambiguous transformation environments

Job Expectations:

  • This position offers a hybrid work schedule

  • This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

  • Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Posting Locations:

  • 2800 S Price Rd., Chandler, Arizona 85286

  • 1525 W W T Harris Blvd. - Charlotte, North Carolina 28262

Posting End Date: 

30 Aug 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 units risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

 

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.