AI Ops Principal Engineer

Wells Fargo

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Charlotte, NCIselin, NJ
Salary
$159,000–$305,000 / yr
Posted
5 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

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This role $232k
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About Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company is one of the largest banks in the United States, providing banking, investment, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance products and services nationwide. Industry: Banking & Financial Services

Wells Fargo currently has 87 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · AI Ops Principal Engineer

Wells Fargo is hiring a Principal Engineer – AIOps to join the Platform Strategy & Transformation team within Commercial & Corporate and Investment Management Technology, focusing on driving the Zero Touch Production transformation agenda. This senior developer role involves leading the strategy, design, and execution of next-generation AIOps capabilities using AI/ML, observability, automation, and event-driven architectures to minimize manual intervention and improve system resilience. Key responsibilities include defining an enterprise-wide AIOps roadmap, architecting self-healing systems, driving adoption of intelligent incident management techniques, and collaborating with SRE, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to embed AIOps into the SDLC and production operations. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in AIOps, Python programming, and working with generative AI technologies like LangChain and Alteryx, along with deep expertise in observability platforms and automation frameworks.

What you'll do

  • Lead the strategy, design, and execution of AIOps platforms to enable Zero Touch Production.
  • Define and drive an enterprise-wide AIOps roadmap including observability, event correlation, and automated remediation.
  • Architect self-healing systems using AI/ML, automation, and closed-loop workflows.
  • Drive adoption of intelligent incident management techniques across production ecosystems.
  • Establish engineering standards for AIOps platforms, tooling, and integrations.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in AIOps, SRE, production engineering, or large-scale distributed systems operations
  • 4+ years of hands-on development experience with Python or other programming/scripting languages
  • 2+ years of experience working with Generative AI and large language models (LLM)
  • Proven ability to design and implement observability, monitoring, and automation platforms at scale
  • Deep expertise in AIOps tools such as Prometheus, AppDynamics, Splunk, ITRS Geneos, BigPanda, OpenTelemetry ecosystems
  • Strong experience with AI/ML for IT operations including anomaly detection, event correlation, forecasting, and intelligent alerting

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