Principal Platform Engineer

About this role: Wells Fargo is seeking a highly skilled platform architect that will serve as a technical leader in designing, developing, and optimizing enterprise platform architectures with a focus on OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform for Enterprise Functions Technologies (EFT). In this role, you will: Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership Architect and optimize platforms leveraging OpenShift, Azure, and GCP to support containerized and cloud-native applications. Collaborate with IT teams, business stakeholders, and vendors to define and implement hybrid and multicloud strategies. Implement best practices for platform security, governance, and compliance, ensuring adherence to industry regulations and security frameworks. Drive the adoption of automation and DevOps methodologies for continuous integration/continuous deployment including the implementation of Infrastructure-as-Code. • Optimize workloads across platforms for performance, availability, and cost efficiency. Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to platform engineers and development teams. Stay up to date with emerging container and cloud technologies and trends and help guide adoption of their use within EFT. Ensure platform designs meet disaster recovery and business continuity requirements while providing playbooks on how to execute against the design expectations. Required Qualifications: 7 years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education 6 years of experience in cloud architecture, with at least 5 years specializing in OCP/Azure/GCP 4 years of hands-on experience in designing and deploying scalable, secure environments using OCP/Azure/GCP services 3 years of hands-on experience with automation tools such as Terraform, PowerShell, Helm Charts, Azure Blueprints, and GCP Cloud Deployment Manager. 3 years of experience deploying architecture solutions into container/cloud environments via CI/CD pipelines 3 years of experience with architecture diagramming tools (e.g., Visio, LucidChart, Miro, etc.) Desired Qualifications: Google Professional Cloud Architect/Azure Solutions Architect/Red Hat Certified OpenShift Architect certification desired. Proven experience in the design, deployment, and management of large-scale container/cloud solutions (preferably in financial services environments) Strong understanding of container/cloud security principles including encryption and identity, networking policies, and access management. Exposure to container/cloud governance and logging/monitoring tooling. Understanding, engineering and implementing disaster recovery and business continuity playbooks Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and leadership skills. Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams. Job Expectations: This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship Ability to work on-site at approved location listed Relocation assistance is not available for this position Posting End Date: 7 Apr 2025 *Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants. 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