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:

• Strong understanding of OpenShift architecture (masters, workers, etcd, Operators, OLM, MachineSets).

• Experience administering OpenShift 4.x clusters.
• Hands‑on experience with Operators, CRDs, Machine API, and Cluster Operators.

• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes primitives, networking, namespaces, scheduling, RBAC, and resource management.

• Understanding of service mesh, ingress routing, and container orchestration best practices.

• Strong RHEL/Linux administration experience.

• Understanding of SELinux, firewalls, DNS, systemd, and OS-level tuning.

• Proficiency in scripting/automation (Bash, Python, Ansible).

• Experience with Git, GitOps workflows, CI/CD tools, registries, and image lifecycle management.

• Good understanding of VMware ESXi hosts, vCenter, storage provisioning, and networking.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms is a plus.

• Experience with Prometheus/Grafana, Alertmanager and security scanners.

• Understanding of container security (image scanning, vulnerability management, Pod Security, SCCs).

Job Expectations:

• Deploying, configuring, and administering Red Hat OpenShift clusters (on‑prem, VMware, or cloud).
• Managing the full lifecycle of OpenShift clusters including provisioning, upgrades, and patching.
• Ensuring high availability and reliability of OpenShift clusters, including managing control plane, worker nodes, and etcd.
• Managing and rotating platform certificates (cluster, ingress, API, internal certs).
• Performing cluster health checks, capacity planning, resource optimization, and SLA compliance.
• Enabling and supporting application teams with deployment strategies (Deployments, StatefulSets, Operators).
• Managing OpenShift Operators, cluster‑level services, and custom resource definitions (CRDs).
• Troubleshooting deployment, image, scaling, and runtime issues.
• Configuring and managing monitoring stack (Prometheus, Cluster Monitoring Operator).
• Managing logging stack
• Troubleshooting platform-level issues including node failures, networking, performance, and image registry issues.
• Working closely with dev teams, SRE teams, and security teams to provide platform expertise.
• Creating documentation, runbooks, and architectural diagrams.
• Participating in on‑call rotation for platform incidents.
• Ensuring compliance with enterprise security standards (audit logs, encryption, vulnerability scanning).

Posting End Date: 

13 Feb 2026

*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.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

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To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

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