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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a highly skilled andforwardthinkingSenior Systems Operations Engineer to join our Technology Operations team. This role is ideal for someone who excels in Python coding, AI development, Kubernetes and OpenShift platform operations, drives operational excellence, and take initiatives that improve stability, automation, and service reliability. You will play a key role in operating and improving ourcloudnativeplatforms, reducing operational toil, and ensuring the resilience and compliance of critical infrastructure services.

In this role, you will:

• Lead or participate in complex, broad impact initiatives including provision of high-level systems consultation for the technology teams
• Platform Operations: Participate in daytodayPlatform (REDIS, OpenShift) platform operations, including cluster maintenance, upgrades, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting
• Operations Excellence: Improving operations practices to meet new Incident SLA and improving practices during incident & problem management
• Incident Response & Problem Management:Serve as an operational lead during incidents, driving rapid diagnosis, resolution,rootcauseanalysis, andlongtermcorrective actions
• Operational Automation:Develop or enhance automation (Python, Bash,GitOpsworkflows, orAIassistedtools), build AI Agents, MCP server and tools, add skill in MCP thateliminatesmanual effort and streamlines run processes
• Platform Readiness:Lead Platform lifecycle activities, including new cluster builds, configuration, onboarding, upgrades, and cluster decommissioning, ensuring consistency, reliability, and compliance across environments
• Collaboration & Enablement:Partner with engineering, SRE, security, and development teams to implement repeatable operational patterns, guardrails, and platform readiness standards
• Security, Compliance & Governance:Ensure platform operations follow organizational policies, security standards, audit controls, and regulatory requirements
• Continuous Improvement:Identifyoperational gaps, recurring issues, or inefficiencies and lead initiatives to enhance reliability, resiliency, and operational maturity.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ 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 hands-on experience in Python for platform operations automation
• Strong proficiency in writing production-quality Python code by using Python libraries and client integrations
• Ability to develop automation solutions, including remediation procedures & workflows and operational tools using Python
• 3+years of experience managing complex, enterprise-scale applications in production environments
• Strong platform experience with Open shift, Kubernetes, Public cloud
• 2+ years of hands-on Linux system administration experience
• Deep platform expertise, including cluster build-outs, CI/CD pipeline integration, troubleshooting, debugging, remediation, patching, upgrades, and root cause analysis (RCA)
• Deepexpertisewith Platforms includesbuilding clusters with pipelines,diagnosing, debugging, remediation, upgrades, patching, and RCA.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in AI development, including agents, MCP, tools, and related frameworks
• Hands-on experience with configuration and monitoring, operational tooling such as Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, Jira, or GitHub, SDLC
• Demonstrated ability to influence operational improvements across teams.
• Strong analytical and operationalproblemsolvingskills.

Job Expectations:

• Participation in on-call rotations
• This position is hybrid and must be located at one of the posted locations.
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship
• Develop automated remediation scripts in Python to proactively resolve alerts and enhance operational efficiency, reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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