Lead Systems Operations Engineer
Wells Fargo
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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 33 open roles on FindRole.
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Lead Systems Operations Engineer joins the Payments & Liquidity Technology team to support the transformation of high-value payment systems onto a new event-driven, cloud-native architecture. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, service management, and reliability, where the engineer embeds Site Reliability Engineering practices into the modernization lifecycle. Key responsibilities include defining non-functional requirements, leading capacity and performance testing for peak events, managing permit-to-operate readiness, and establishing robust runbooks and escalation paths. The candidate will ensure platforms are resilient, observable, and scalable while reducing alert noise through chaos engineering and blameless RCAs. Required skills include experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and application support. Desired expertise includes CI/CD automation, Spring Boot, MongoDB, Redis, Resilience4J, and distributed tracing tools like BlazeMeter or Chaos Monkey within high-value payment systems such as SWIFT, CHIPS, and FedNow.
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