Lead Applications Support Platform Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Applications Support Platform Engineer (Lead Systems Operations Engineer) to join our Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology (CCIBT) team. Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com.

To be successful, you will need to be a focused, self-motivated technologist who prioritizes stability of the application and infrastructure above all else. This position will be directly supporting Wires applications and making Real Time Payments possible for our global customers.

In this role, you will:

• Support a suite of applications across varying technologies enabling wires and payment processing
• Partner with cross-organizational teams to ensure end-to-end platform engineering capabilities are implemented, ensuring resilience, high performance, and high availability of the applications
• Review and analyze moderately complex operational support systems, application software, and system management tools to ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
• Responsible for production deployments, ensuring governance and controls and act as a gatekeeper for any changes to the production environment
• Provide cross-functional and cross-organizational coordination on root cause analysis for any production issues
• Drive recovery efforts during incident calls. Gather essential information for root cause analysis and stability improvement
• Conduct incident management and coordinate/implement solutions to prevent customer impact
• Inform leadership on ongoing issues through formal communications in alignment with ITIL best practices
• Collaborate and consult with peers and colleagues to increasing system efficiencies and lowering the human intervention time on related tasks

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Systems Engineering, Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 5+ years of experience with Linux
• 3+ years database support/knowledge with Mongo and/or SQL experience (Oracle SQL)
• 2+ years app development or support in payments and/or wires applications

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in payments and/or wires application technology (major/large banking technology experience)
• Exposure/knowledge/understanding in MTS (Money Transfer System), Real Time/Instant Payments, and other payment origination applications and technologies
• Ability to independently drive recovery efforts during incidents and help identify key players/partners
• Linux bash scripting ability – develop scripts on the fly and seek automation opportunities to improve/stabilize application space and reduce manual intervention requirements
• Kafka understanding/experience
• Proficiency in utilizing Service Now for incident, problem, and change management (opening incidents, reviewing changes, documenting records)
• Extremely strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to identify root-cause issues/improvement opportunities, and design approaches
• Knowledge and understanding of complex enterprise systems and frameworks including frontends, middleware, services layer, database, backend, and downstream interfaces
• Hands on experience using monitoring tools like Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, Geneos ITRS etc
• Drive/initiate review and analyze complex technical challenges which require in depth evaluation of problems and coordinating fixes with partners
• Mentor, coach, and develop fellow team members
• Document processes and alert response runbooks. Ensure technical knowledge is shared widely throughout the team

Job Expectations:

• Open to work in flexible hours and on-call support as required.

Posting End Date: 

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

We Value Diversity

At Wells Fargo, we believe in diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace; accordingly, we welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, individuals with disabilities, pregnancy, marital status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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