Lead Systems Operations Engineer

Wells Fargo

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Charlotte, NC Posted 16 days ago

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TL;DR

Wells Fargo is hiring a Lead Systems Operations Engineer to join their Global Payments and Liquidity Technology team within Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology. This senior-level position focuses on embedding Site Reliability Engineering practices into high-value payment platforms, ensuring they are resilient, scalable, and observable from design through early life support. The engineer will lead capacity and performance testing, define non-functional requirements, and ensure robust exception handling for event-driven flows. They will collaborate with Application Engineering, Architecture, and Service Operations teams to stabilize services post-release, driving end-to-end observability and continuous service improvement. Required qualifications include 5+ years of Systems Engineering experience, 3+ years in Kubernetes, and a strong background in application support. Desired skills encompass CI/CD automation, Spring Boot frameworks, MongoDB and Redis data stores, and experience with high-value payment systems like SWIFT and CHIPS.

Skills

Kubernetes CI/CD Spring Boot MongoDB Redis Distributed tracing Metrics Logging SLO tooling BlazeMeter Chaos Monkey Python Java AWS Azure Git Jenkins PostgreSQL Docker Terraform

What you'll do

Lead complex initiatives providing high-level systems consultation to support enterprise objectives.
Analyze technical challenges related to core business solutions, recommending enhancements for stability and scalability.
Make informed decisions on system changes to ensure alignment with business needs and operational goals.
Consult engineering teams on change design, applying knowledge of technical process controls and architectural considerations.
Drive end-to-end observability, SLOs, and error budgets to reduce risk and improve reliability of payment platforms.

What we're looking for

5+ years of Systems Engineering or Technology Architecture experience
3+ years of application support and Kubernetes platform experience
Strong experience in SRE, Production Engineering, or Service Transition
Experience with high-value payment systems and their operational risks
Ability to collaborate on complex technical challenges and system enhancements
Expertise in CI/CD automation, progressive delivery, and reliability-as-code concepts
Knowledge of distributed tracing, metrics, logging, and SLO tooling

Market check

Salary context

This listing doesn't show a salary. Similar roles on FindRole typically pay $130,100–$205,000.

Peer median band

$130,100–$205,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$140,500–$195,250

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Based on 239 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

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 26 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $159,000–$305,000 across 16 roles with salary data.

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