Senior Systems Operations Engineer - Tomcat, Linux administration, Jenkins, CI/CD & automation

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Systems Operations Engineer

In this role, you will:

• Lead or participate in managing all installed systems and infrastructure within the Systems Operations functional area
• Contribute in increasing system efficiencies and lowering the human intervention time on related tasks
• Review and analyze moderately complex operational support systems, application software, and system management tools to ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
• Work with vendors and other technical personnel for problem resolution
• Lead team to meet technical deliverables while leveraging solid understanding of technical process controls or standards
• Collaborate with vendors and other technical personnel to resolve technical issues and achieve highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Systems Engineering, Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Middleware Engineer / Platform Engineer to support a mission-critical Linux-based middleware platform.
• This role provides senior-level engineering and operational ownership of Apache Tomcat application platforms running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment. The engineer will ensure platform reliability, security, performance, and scalability while driving best practices in automation, CI/CD, and disaster recovery
• Architect, install, configure, and optimize Tomcat clusters on Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual servers.
• Provide specialized infrastructure support for various application teams including but not limited to VM procurement, build and preparation for application load and test according to departmental standards.
• Support application deployment strategies and enforce SDLC, change management, and release governance.
• Design and manage SSL/TLS, certificate lifecycle management, and secure communications.
• Implement authentication, authorization, and Single Sign-On (SSO) integrations using LDAP and enterprise identity platforms.
• Drive security hardening standards, vulnerability remediation, and compliance alignment for middleware and Linux systems.
• Perform advanced root cause analysis and resolution of complex middleware, OS, and application issues.
• Establish and maintain platform monitoring, logging, and alerting standards.
• Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines, automation, and deployment tooling (e.g., Jenkins).
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance across middleware and platform operations.
• Collaborate with application development, database, network, and storage teams to deliver stable and scalable platforms.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation for critical platform incidents and escalations.
• Experience with infrastructure automation (Ansible, scripting).
• Experience with server/application virtualization technology (Citrix)
• Exposure to containerization or Kubernetes (Tomcat on containers).
• Experience supporting Spring Boot or Java microservices platforms.
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Splunk, ELK, Prometheus).

Job Expectations:

• 7+ years of experience in systems and application production support within enterprise environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux/windows administration (physical and virtual).
• Advanced experience with SSL/TLS, certificate authorities, and secure communications.
• Proven expertise in middleware and OS security hardening, vulnerability management, and patching.
• Experience designing and supporting high availability and disaster recovery architectures.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, middleware, OS, and infrastructure layers.
• Analyze, define, and document system and application requirements, including workflows, processes, interfaces, and technical controls, using standard methodologies.
• Implement and support solutions aligned with enterprise technology standards and operational frameworks.
• Evaluate and advise on emerging technologies, contributing to platform integration strategies and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Working knowledge of LDAP/SSO integrations and identity management concepts.
• Experience with CI/CD and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, Control-M).
• Familiarity with SAN storage concepts and enterprise storage platforms.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred; equivalent professional experience accepted.
• Develop deep understanding of trading, risk, and caching/computing platforms, and contribute to their build, enhancement, and ongoing support.
• Troubleshoot complex system, application, and infrastructure issues, and providing guidance to application teams.
• Provide technical consulting and mentorship to junior engineers, promoting best practices and operational excellence.
• Analyze, define, and document system and application requirements, including workflows, processes, interfaces, and technical controls, using standard methodologies.

Posting End Date: 

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

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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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